this research was done with the aim of analyzing the factors that influence the professional development of agricultural faculty members. methodologically, this explanatory research was carried out through survey method. the population of the research consisted of agricultural faculty members of iran universities (n=1190). using random stratified sampling method, 120 faculty members were select...

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the purpose of this research, was to determine the impact of contextual variable of change on commitment to change in related to process of privatization through emotional envolvment. in this regard, randomize stratified sampling was selected and 104 managers and specialists of khorasan province regional electric company participated in the study. to collect data was used a questionnaire with 9...

the successful adoption of e-learning systems is mainly dependent on the learners’ attitude and willingness to use them. this survey was conducted to investigate agricultural extension workers’ attitudes toward using e-learning for on-the-job training in iran and factors which affect it. using the stratified sampling technique a sample of 379 extension workers were selected from six provinces. ...

one factor that has highlighted the role of agriculture in the economy is to make the marketing system of agricultural products more efficient. the main purpose of this study was to identify the requirements of marketing the organic pomegranate of paveh, kermanshah province, iran, from the perspective of farmers. in order to identify contributing factors, an exploratory factor analysis was used...

The aim of this study is to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of Iranian households and health staff on nutrition at province level. The sampling method in NUTRIKAP survey for households in each province is single-stage cluster sampling and the size of clusters is equal. The sampling method for health staff in each province is stratified random sampling. Samples are selected from physi...

The two main and contradicting criteria guiding sampling design are accuracy of estimators and sampling costs. In stratified random sampling, the sample size must be allocated to strata in order to optimize both objectives. In this note we address, following a biobjective methodology, this allocation problem. A two-phase method is proposed to describe the set of Pareto-optimal solutions of this...