daily development of the human knowledge, promotion of biomedical technologies and improvement of physicians' ability in diagnosis and treatment of different types of diseases have always accompanied plenty of discussions and challengeable subjects, especially from the view point of ethical issues. obtaining deep and accurate recognition of these subjects, the attention of the physicians and th...

The current research sets out to identify and scrutinize the impact of the CEO’s perceptual biases in judgment and economic decision-making on the reporting quality of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Adopting a mixed method, the present study first seeks to detect the components and indices of CEO’s perceptual biases via critical appraisal and with the special participation of 10...

Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams, a team-oriented agent architecture, Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (CAST), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information n...

The main objective of this special issue is to present readers with the significantly extended and improved versions of the articles presented at the International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC’05) held in Regina, Canada in September 2005. In the standard rough set model, the lower and upper approximations are defined based on the two extreme cases (full ...

Renal scintigraphic methods, which are physiologic and minimally invasive, have played important role in the management of various renal diseases in children, providing sensitive tool for early detection of disease even before structural changes become prominent and giving valuable functional and anatomical information to aid medical decision makings in the treatment and follow-up of patients. ...

In this paper, we proposed a modified D-S decision-making approach. Firstly, the definition of drop-falling distance was given and the dropfalling similarity was derived, based on which the credence was obtained. Then, the uncertainties were considered since they reflect the reasonableness of possibility distributions. Finally, a binary linear weight function was derived with respect to the cre...

this study aims at investigating the relationship between age and gender of auditors and their judgment and decision. population of this study includes dependent auditors engaged in audit firms member of iranian association of certified public accountants (iacpa). random sampling was used and the questionnaireswere distributed among 100 auditors. the methodology of the study is descriptive-surv...

This study examines the implications of the separation theorems in finance to shed light on how these theorems can be refined to accommodate real life financial applications and decision makings. We also generalize the financial theory of the firm by incorporating real options in the production function to accommodate the complexity of real world issues. This modified financial theory of the fi...