The objective of the thesis was to analyse operational decision-making at the Changshu Paper Mill in China and the Kymi Paper Mill in Finland. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to examine critical areas of and differences in decision-making practices in selected problem situations. The thesis also sought to explore how operational decision-making at Changshu differs from the local prac...

this is a cross sectional study with aim of assessment and comparison between parents and female adolescents ' attitudes about the role of peers in decision making of adolescent in tehran. in this study 160 mother, 160 father and 160 female adolescents participated. with random selection 160 female adolescent with 14-19 years old from north, south , east and west of tehran were selected an...

introduction: customer satisfaction has been suggested as one of the interesting and challenging issues of management in the new millennium. in addition, oral and dental health and the quality of the services the health centers delivered to the patients directly affect the customer satisfaction. therefore, the present study aimed to identify, investigate, and rank the factors affecting the cust...

results all the frames that were examined leaded to significant framing effects: when the asia disease problem was described in a positive frame, the participants preferred the conservative frame than the risky one, while if in a negative frame, the preference reversed (p < 0.01). if the drug effect was described as “of 100 patients taking this kind of medicine, 70 patients became better”, peop...

At the heart of SPRU’s DH-funded programme of research is a qualitative longitudinal Panel Study that aims to examine the choices that older people, disabled young people, disabled adults and their carers make about their services and support; how these choices change over time; and the implications for their experience of independence. To inform the Panel Study and drawing mainly on psychologi...

methodologies adopted by the conventional management accounting in selecting between two or more alternative courses of action, both in the long-term and short-term decision-making, conflict with the overall objective of islamic enterprises. the paper explores the relevant literature (including the quran and the hadith) to ascertain the objective of an islamic enterprise and suggests an alterna...

the expansion of major cities regardless of the scientific planning principles has led to theemergence of negative urban development impacts in iran such as the degradation of natural resources andvarious forms of pollution. undoubtedly, urban rivers can enhance the ecological value of the earth to anoptimal extent. however, to benefit from these potentials, appropriate planning looks inevitabl...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...