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Globalization and high rate development in all categories of scientific fields have become a very substantial motive to make effort in R&D affairs all over the world. Therefore, the high volume of investment in this area and Also the importance and urgency of R&D according to economical development statistics and its mutual and close relation with it specially in context of Iran, it is necessary to establish an effective tool to recognize gaps and bugs of subsystems working in the area using high volume investment so as to improve the position of each section of the total body of industry in this regard.

 

In this dissertation, our aim is to evaluate a model linking “Teamwork Quality” and “Innovative Team Climate”. Teamwork Quality is defined as the quality of interactions among team members that includes six dimensions: “Communication”, “Coordination”, “Balance of Contribution”, “Mutual Support”, “Effort”, and “Cohesion”. Innovative Team Climate refers to shared perceptions of team policies, practices and procedures in support of innovation. This construct is composed of four dimensions: “Vision”, “Participation Safety”, “Task Orientation”, and “Support of Innovation”. Firstly, we hypothesized that there are positive relations between Innovative Team Climate and Teamwork Quality itself and... 

Productivity is the effective usage of input or resources for production or output. Input (including Energy, raw materials, capital and work force), which is being used for output (including final products or services performed by an organization). Productivity, increases gross domestic product and competitiveness, and improves level of living. Firms and related management levels play the main role in improving productivity. Using productivity cycle management brings the productivity to improve as a permanent process, specifies the rout for productivity and prepares the ground. The most important step in productivity cycle (PDCA) is the measurement of productivity. In this research several... 

Grammar-based software's are the software's that their input can be expressed according to the grammars for example, reverse engineering software's, evolutional counting's, adjustable programming in product line and XML controllers are in this category; so we can use this capability of the software in its testing .In the field of criteria for the test coverage of the grammar-based software, 5 criteria have been offere so far, which contain rule coverage criterion, context-dependant rule coverage criterion, length-n successor coverage criterion, loop-K coverage criterion and full coverage criterian, any of which have benefits and defeats. The first questions which are asked in this field is... 

Several studies in the field of performance management have paid attention to the effect of systemic and instrumental factors on the effectiveness of performance management system. However, the impact of communication and relational factors has received less attention. Furthermore, it seems that similar approach has been used in organizations for considering systemic factors in designing performance management systems rather than human factors. The goal of this research was to study the relationship between employees' trust in their manager as an relational variable with the effectiveness of performance management system and to compare this relationship with the relationship between the... 

The performance evaluation involves a process by which the employees are periodically and officially evaluated. Major reasons of performance evaluation include, among others, identification of efficient employees and granting bonuses to them to create stimuli to improve their and other employees' performances. The main objective of performance evaluation constitutes study of people's performances in the organization in order for directors to take proper and required decisions to enhance both quantities and qualities of the employees' works. The performance evaluation is deemed to be a major critical function of the management of human resources to facilitate organizational effectiveness. In... 

People in the organization who are influential, opinion leaders, decision-makers and approvers need to be incorporated into the entire Strategic Planning process at some levels .The Management of these Stakeholders involves identifying their organizational roles and their disposition towards and understanding of Strategic Planning, then to work with them throughout the process to improve or maintain their opinion of the value of Strategic Planning through continuous updating and addressing of their issues, concerns and questions. Physical asset practitioners apply the physical asset management framework and policies to ensure the performance and output potential of physical assets through... 

Gas turbine efficiency will increase with rising the temperature of inlet gas. However, there are some restrictions for rising the temperature of inlet gas. Film cooling is one of the best methods to eliminate these limitations. The geometry of coolant jet hole is one of the most effective parameters in effectiveness and uniformity of film cooling. In this experimental investigation, the effects of five different coolant jet holes are evaluated. Blowing ratios of 0.5, 1 and 1.5 and density ratio of 1 were selected to perform this study. The five models for coolant hole are: square model, CTJ model, 3-circle model, semicircle horseshoe model and parabolic horseshoe model. The injection angle... 

One of the most important methods to ensure correct software and check the quality of software is software testing. One of the most important discussions about software testing is the effectiveness of a test suite. Manufacturers need a benchmark to determine the effectiveness of the test suite to stop the software testing process. The proposed solutions for determining the effectiveness are mutation testing and code coverage. The mutation test has a higher accuracy than the code coverage, but it takes a long time to calculate. This dissertation has tried to improve the existing solutions by presenting a new coverage that has a higher degree of accuracy than the proposed coverages in... 

In the present era, data and its impressive access is considered to be one of the key elements in development, in a way that all social, economic process, severly require information. Today knowledge is the most important tool in competition of present and future markets. Implementation of knowledge management should be accomplished in a step by step process. One of the main goals of implementing knowledge management is increasing of the organizational productivity. This study has a qualitative approach and the method is based on a case study. Data has been collected by questionnaires. Due to this fact, knowledge management should be applied according to organizational productivity. Among... 

Due to the numerous climate fluctuations and inefficient management of water resources during recent decades in Iran, the condition of some wetlands has become critical and the need for rehabilitation has increased. The importance of the wetlands and plains ecosystem have led to initiate some extensive projects to preserve and revive them. While implementing the projects some questions have been raised by the scientists and public whether the impact and success of these projects are in direct with objectives of the restoration program or not.For instance, Urmia Lake as one of the most precious natural habitats of Iran and as one of the biological reservoirs of the world is selected for this... 

The case for boosting the share of children benefiting from early childhood development (ECD) programs is strong, but expenditure has to be well-aimed. Not every program adopted under the name of ECD will provide the positive impacts that currently anchor ECD discussions among policy makers. In this report, we present results from an experimental evaluation of Cash Grant for Child Care program implemented in Sistan & Baluchestan province of Iran as a government subsidized ECD. The program provides monthly grants to ECD centers, as well as in-kind food quota per every child attending the center. At the end of school year, we did not find any significant differences in cognitive and...