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Respect to increasing water scarcity in the world, it is necessary to ameliorate agriculture methods in order to efficiency enhancement. However, it seems that in underdeveloped counties faced with the water problem, barriers exist which prevent farmers from adopting new technologies. For researching this problem, drop pressure technology studied in Salmas County locate in West Azerbaijan state in Iran. The purpose of this research is to explore factors of lack of diffusion of new agricultural technologies in underdeveloped areas with water scarcity problem. The research problem is that notwithstanding government facilities, the diffusion rate of drop pressure technology in this area is very... 

The use of mobile banking software in today's society is very common and mobile banking applications provide many different services for people. In Iran, on the other hand, most of the transactions take place in the context of the use of ATMs and websites, which have fewer services than mobile apps. In the present study, an attempt had done to find effective factors and their effectiveness on people's intention to use the mobile bank application. To do this, the theory of planned behavior by Ajzen is used in which people intention is affected by three main parts of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. Each of these variables consists of beliefs that constitute the... 

This Thesis identifies the pattern of technological learning in developing complex products systems (CoPS). The experiences of Iran in missile development in the defense industry has been studied to explain the learning process in attaining indigenous technological capability. The case study of TOW missile development including international technology transfers has been explored to investigate the technological learning patterns. The role of policy initiatives had excessive importance through technological learning in the case study  

The purpose of IT management and governance is to empower the alignment between IT and business in organizations. IT management and governance focuses on the optimal utilization of IT resources in order to support business processes, address the organization’s needs and meet the organization’s goals. Even though every IT governance framework emphasizes on a particular dimension of this extensive domain, the common nature of all these frameworks, which is IT and business alignment, would make the efforts put into integrating them desirable and reasonable. Implementing different IT governance frameworks in separate projects, not only results in redundant or inconsistent outputs and artifacts,... 

Nowadays, separate use of traditional service management frameworks and approaches will not meet the needs of businesses and customers. This is because of the very fast change in the environment and the move to the digital age. The integration of traditional approaches into modern ones significantly helps organizations adapt to new needs and changes in the environment. In this research, first, the basic concepts of the ITIL framework as the most widely used IT services management framework have been studied. Then, the COBIT framework as the most accepted IT governance framework has been investigated. The VeriSM approach also has been used as a solution for service management in the digital...