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Career orientation has been defined as one’s career aspirations and preferences regarding to the self realization of his/her needs, values and competencies with attention to environmental factors such as opportunities and threats, For example one who wants to establish his/her own business has entrepreneurial career orientation. In spite of the importance of identifying MBA students’ career orientations, it seems that past studies have paid little attention to this topic in Iran. The results of this study can be a helpful guide in educational planning of management faculties regarding to students’ career orientations and for organizations in human resource management regarding to required... 

In addition to the successes of modern science and technology in helping humanity, science has brought harmful effects ,which has led to criticisms from different domains such ethics, religion, politics, philosophy , etc. Nicholas Maxwell as an Emeritus Reader in the Philosophy of Science has shown , in several of his works, the harmful byproducts of science, and has proposed some ideas for bring about a revolution in the philosophy of science. His main thesis is to change the academic and non-academic aim of works, from knowledge to wisdom. In summary, his concerns are: inappropriate metaphysical presuppositions concerning the comprehensibility of our universe, attention to rational... 

People often conduct extensive searches in Internet, when they are involved in purchasing process of digital products. One primary challenge with the method of such searches is this fact that they heavily rely on a wide variety of technical characteristics, while buyers not being well familiar with such attributes. As such, they frequently fail to identify and purchase the right product. To address this issue, value-based approach is proposed by which the decision process is expected to be facilitated and become more efficient since it is based upon direct comparison of values gained by each product. In this thesis, as a case study for digital products, value attributes of mobile products... 

Nowadays, the online markets can easily change and adjust price of the product to an optimal price to increase the profit from the sale of their products. Because of this pricing flexibility, there are many applications of online pricing in online markets and so on.We study the problem of online pricing and specifically feature-based online pricing as an online learning problem in which a seller receives highly differentiated products online and prices them with the goal of obtaining the highest possible profit.The seller does not initially know the values of the different features, but can learn the values of the features based on whether products were sold at the posted prices in the... 

In this thesis, the value-ladenness or value-neutrality of technology, new social media and as a result Instagram is investigated. It is also discussed whether values can be taken into account during the design process of technical artefacts, including new social media and Instagram, and methods are developed for this purpose. Several methods have been developed for this purpose, some of them and their compatibility with modern social media are explained; including the Value-Sensitive-Design method and the disclosive computer ethics design method. The frameworks of ethical philosophy such as virtue ethics are reviewed and the appropriate ethical framework for the analysis of new social media...