The main purpose of this research paper is to calculate Irans Housing (Maskan) Bank through the use of Data Envelopment Analysis. In this research, the performance of 33 branches of the Housing Bank throughout Tehran (capital city of Iran) within 2002-2004 was analyzed and discussed. The results of the study shows that average technical efficiencies of Housing Bank branches in two hypotheses of...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...

educational researchers have provided evidence that teachers’ emotional intelligence has strong effects on various aspects of teaching and learning. yet, in the field of teaching english to speakers of other languages (tesol), inquiry into teachers’ emotional intelligence is nearly limited. given its documented powerful impact on teaching practices and student learning, it is critical to pursue...

In current research, energy efficiency and technical efficiency of wheat farmers were calculated in Mazandaran province. To estimate technical efficiency the Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data (StoNED) was used. The model incorporating nonparametric data envelopment analysis model which contain the smoothness and concavity constraints with stochastic frontier analysis model. The requi...

This study intends to estimate bias corrected efficiency, technical efficiency, managerial efficiency and thus scale and confidence intervals associated with them, using input oriented data envelopment analysis approach and LSW algorithm. Results show the average of scale efficiency of our country’s industry section is 93% and except for recycling industry (code no. 37), furniture and unclassif...