over the past decades a number of approaches have been applied for forecasting mortality. in 1992, a new method for long-run forecast of the level and age pattern of mortality was published by lee and carter. this method was welcomed by many authors so it was extended through a wider class of generalized, parametric and nonlinear model. this model represents one of the most influential recent d...

the present study aimed at investigating how different news agencies using the concept of legitimation/delegitimation represent the same event differently. to this end, van leeuwens (2008) legitimatory/delegitimatory framework was applied to the data gleaned from the iranian state-run news agency fars news, british state-run news agency bbc, and also american state-run news agency voa. the resu...

in this study, the relationship between teachers’ creative and critical thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching was investigated. to this end, three questions were raised. these questions were intended to determine whether there was a significant relationship between teachers’ creative thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching; whether there was a significant relationship be...

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

This study is a quantitative reassessment of the effects of financial development on Iran’s economic growth within the period of 1973-2007 using both Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Variance Decomposition (VDCM) approaches. The empirical results reveal that the financial development has a significant and positive impact on shot-run and long-run economic growth. The shot-run and long-r...

The present study examines the nonlinear dynamic relation among the factors affecting the export of Iran handmade carpets between 1352- 95, and focuses on the macroeconomic variables. For this purpose, the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) Technique is used. The results indicate that there is a nonlinear short-run and long-run relation among the variables of the model. Among the ...