the purpose followed in this study was to identify the restraining factors affecting date grower organizations, development in khuzestan province. the statistical population consisted of two independent groups including 584 members of date grower organizations and 30 experts from the related governmental agencies. a sample of 120 farmers from date growers' group was chosen through stratifi...

Numerous conferences organized in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997–98 offered analyses of what went wrong in the crisis countries. The immediacy of the crisis prompted a number of reform proposals directed toward reducing the risk of future crises. However, now that the crisis has abated, reform appears to be much lower on most political agendas, and the progress that countries are...

We study the design of contracts that incentivize experts to collect information and truthfully report it a decision maker. depart from most previous literature by assuming transfers cannot depend on realized state or ex post payoff The contract thus has induce “monitor each other” making contingent entire vector reports. characterize least costly implements any given efforts derive cost functi...

We consider a cross-calibration test of predictions by multiple potential experts in a stochastic environment. This test checks whether each expert is calibrated conditional on the predictions made by other experts. We show that this test is good in the sense that a true expert—one informed of the true distribution of the process—is guaranteed to pass the test no matter what the other potential...

the current study mainly aimed to investigate the rationality behind the establishment of non-profit schools and its harmony with the educational justice from educational experts’ viewpoints. to achieve the desired goal, the study used both analytical and critical hermeneutic perspectives. the results obtained from the current study showed that the establishment of non-profit schools is not in ...

Solving many scientific problems requires effective regression and/or classification models for large high-dimensional datasets. Experts from these problem domains (e.g. biologists, chemists, financial analysts) have insights into the domain which can be helpful in developing powerful models but they need a modelling framework that helps them to use these insights. Data visualisation is an effe...

Association football is becoming increasingly competitive and the financial stakes involved are causing football clubs and football leagues to become more professional. Over the past 25 years, club budgets have grown enormously due to ticket sale revenues, broadcasting revenues, merchandising, and prize money. Recently, player tracking systems were introduced and are producing overwhelming amou...

In the context of development methods, early collaborations between specialists (SE, HCI, business, usability experts . . . ) allows having a broader view of the development possibilities, notably in terms of user-system interaction. Consequently, in-depth transformations of the processes and concepts can be considered with minimum financial or temporal impact. We discuss in this paper the oppo...