considering the pace of scientific, technological and cultural developments, one will have no other choice but to learn over a lifetime. mobile learning as a new stage of e-learning development with the potential of using mobile devices, is supposed to be an effective means for lifelong learning. therefore, the purpose of this survey was to analyze the problems of agricultural education system ...

the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

The nonlinear relationship between corporate value (Tobin's Q) and managerial ownership is well documented. This has commonly been attributed to the onset of managerial entrenchment, which results in a decrease of corporate value for increasing levels of managerial holdings. We propose a more complex structure for the corporate value { managerial ownership function, which accounts for the e®ect...

This article investigates the factors that have shaped the role and work experiences of ward sisters and charge nurses. The article considers how ward sisters make sense of the tensions between their clinical and managerial responsibilities and the contradictions inherent in different aspects of their role. It offers suggestions on how these tensions might be alleviated.

The present study is dealing with presenting a model for evaluating the effectiveness of short and medium-term training courses at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. a combined research method (quantitative, qualitative) was conducted. The statistical population consists of specialists and university administrators and staff of the Medical Sciences Organization in Mazandaran Province.  ...

This paper reports and summarises the important findings of a study into the factors that influence the adoption and diffusion of knowledge management systems (KMSs) in Australian organizations. The implications for managerial practices are discussed. The future research directions are also presented.

in order to design and validate the social capital questionnaire for employees of physical education organization, the main research question was whether a social capital questionnaire designed by researchers had sufficient validity and reliability. the population of the research consisted of employees of the organization (n=700). 299 subjects were selected as the sample by systematic random sa...

In this paper, we present a variant of Datalog language (we call it Datalog ) able to deal with weights on ground facts and to consequently compute a feedback result for the goal satisfaction. The weights are chosen from a proper c-semiring. In our context, our goal is to use this language as a semantic foundation for languages for expressing trust relationships. As a matter of fact, many of th...