data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

drought is transient phenomenon , slow , repetitive and integral part of the climate of each region. drought begins with a substantial reduction in precipitation over the long-term average rainfall and over time, reduced soil moisture and surface and ground water resources will continue to decrease. this phenomenon is the most important in bakhtegan basin because of its importance in strategic ...

Sediment load estimation is one of the most important issues in rivers & dam reservoirs management and generally in water projects. Various empirical equations show that proper analytical or empirical method is not suggested for correct estimation of suspended sediment, yet. In the present study, to assessment of closer estimation to actual data of transported sediment in Ghoran Talar station l...

to teach english adequately, qualified teachers are needed. unfortunately, there are still teachers who are teaching english without an academic degree in tefl. it is necessary for teachers to have a major in english to have subject knowledge, but it is not sufficient. teachers need to have an understanding of the social, cultural, moral, ethical, and pedagogical issues of education and practic...

Comprehensiveness of the Five Factor/Big Five model of personality has always been under question. Recent lexical and statistical research in various languages and cultures has shown that the personality structure could be well explained by a six factor model. These six factors comprised the HEXACO model, and are Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, an...

this thesis is a study on insurance fraud in iran automobile insurance industry and explores the usage of expert linkage between un-supervised clustering and analytical hierarchy process(ahp), and renders the findings from applying these algorithms for automobile insurance claim fraud detection. the expert linkage determination objective function plan provides us with a way to determine whi...