INTRODUCTION At the modern age, to acquire knowledge and experience, the individuals with their own specific culture have to enter contexts with cultural diversity, adapt to different cultures and have social interactions to be able to have effective inter-cultural relationships.To have such intercultural associations and satisfy individual needs in the society, cultural intelligence and social...

the main challenge for any insurer/reinsurer has proved to be underwriting major refinery/petrochemical risk. insurers have already considered process risk management measures while accepting and evaluating the risks all over the world. erstwhile petrochemical tariff was adopting experiencing methodology as basis for premium calculation in iran. in the present de-tariff scenario decisions will ...

the present study is an attempt toward evaluating the performance of portfolios and asset selectionusing cross-efficiency evaluation. cross-efficiency evaluation is an effective way of ranking decisionmaking units (dmus) in data envelopment analysis (dea). conventional dea models assume nonnegativevalues for inputs and outputs. however, we know that unlike return and skewness, varianceis the on...

INTRODUCTION Quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. The numbers of Iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of Iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic textbooks. METHODS AND MATERIALS Three known textbooks (Ingle's Endodontics, Seltzer and Be...