background and aim: in recent years, the importance of families’ active participation in care delivery has increased dramatically. nurses’ attitude is a key factor in the implementation and the success of programs which actively involve families in critical care delivery. the purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of relatives’ participation in critical care delivery on nurses’ attitu...

We look at any cooperative design process as a decision making process, i.e. a non deterministic process. The process is performed by responsible agents having the freedom to decide how to proceed according to their assessment of the situation they are faced to. However, the cooperative design process cannot be an ad-hoc and chaotic process. We look at it as a repeatable process made of steps r...

Product-related services in the capital goods industry are characterised by international customer demands. Often these demands can only be met efficiently by cooperating with other partners. However, the decisionmaking process for cooperation configuration still lacks adequate support. Existing approaches for evaluating cooperation and services are not suitable for an assessment of different a...

abstractthe present study attempted to investigate the impact of cooperation versus collaboration on college students` reading ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 90 participants were chosen from among 140 by means of administering the nelson proficiency test. they were divided into three groups: cooperative group, collaborative group, and control group. a fifty-item multiple-choice r...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

This study explored the effectiveness of the two computer-assisted modes: cooperative and individual on improving Iranian high school students’ reading comprehension. It was also concerned with investigating the effectiveness of the two computer-assisted modes on the participants’ foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA). The sample of the study consisted of two intact groups, each containing 2...

This study explored the effectiveness of the two computer-assisted modes: cooperative and individual on improving Iranian high school students’ reading comprehension. It was also concerned with investigating the effectiveness of the two computer-assisted modes on the participants’ foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA). The sample of the study consisted of two intact groups, each containing 2...

The purpose of this research was analysis of contents of extension and education in agricultural cooperatives in the Lorestan province, Iran. The population of study consisted of 832 members of agricultural cooperative in Lorestan province, Iran in which 260 people were selected as a sample size, using Krejcie and Morgan table. The results indicate that more than 66.92 percent of the agricultur...