Purpose: The aim of this study is to present a model of social capital management in the General Department of Education of Kermanshah province with the approach of data foundation theory (Case study: primary school principals). Method: The method of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of implementation method, with a combined (quantitative-qualitative) approach. The ...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate of economic impacts of soleimanshah dam on rural development in regions that are under influence of irrigation and drainage network of dam. in this research quantitative-qualitative research method was used and information gathered with questionnaire, interview, and direct observation. statistical population of research in qualitative part consi...

The purpose of the present research is to develop the auditors' critical thinking model in evaluating the employers' financial performances according to Total Interpretative Structural Analysis (TISM). In this research which qualitatively is a combined research based on Delphi analysis and meta-synthesis analysis and quantitatively is based on total interpretative structural analysis, two targe...

The stock market, which has been investigated by various researchers, is a rather complicated environment. Most research only concerned the technical indexes (quantitative factors), instead of qualitative factors, e.g., political e ect. However, the latter plays a critical role in the stock market environment. Thus, this study develops a genetic algorithm based fuzzy neural network (GFNN) to fo...

in recent century, sustainability has been the most important feature especially in economic, social and environmental issues. so that it has always been the main concern of regional, national and even international planners as the consequent challenges were the main threat to achieving sustainable development of human society. in this study, all aspects of sustainability including environmenta...

there are different methodes for performance evaluation of economic development plans and ranking them in comparison with each other. these methods are founded on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. however, real world events are based upon uncertainty and since quantitative methods, unlike their names, are not accurate enough, they do not seem to be efficient in qualitative decision-...

it has often been stated or implied that grazing is an important factor in the land degradation process, a suggestion supported by various research projects, and this study investigated the effect of livestock grazing on stem height, crowncover, production, basal diameter, stem biomass, litter, leaf-stem index (leaf to stem weight) , root diameter and weight and seed production per individual o...

The present article seeks to investigate how pathological use of social networking sites (SNS) in mothers is related to their marital satisfaction,  mother-child relationship, and children’s behavioral problems. This study had a mixed methods research design with quantitative and qualitative components. In the quantitative part with correlational design, 323 mothers who had preschool children w...