according to the mother's key roles in bringing up emotional and cognitive abilities of mentally retarded children and respect to positive psychology in recent decades, this research is administered to assess the relation between mother's happiness level with cognitive- executive functions (i.e. attention, working memory, inhibition and planning) and facial emotional recognition ability as two ...

This article focuses on the connection between the ideology of neo-Malthusianism and development theory and practice from the mid 1940s to the present. First identified by a few demographic experts, population policies and family planning gradually turned into a global movement for the control of world population. From the beginning, population discourses and policies were intertwined with stra...

This paper outlines a research agenda on the development of analytical tools to support the analysis of integrated food, energy, and water (FEW) systems. The thrust of this agenda is on increasing awareness and building capacity on interdisciplinary data and mathematical modeling toward integrated planning and identification/evaluation of trade-offs and synergies in developing such systems. The...

This paper investigates approaches to information strategy. We make a distinction between three types of control mechanisms, the rationality-mechanism, the integrating-mechanism and the libertarian-mechanism. Based on the manner in which architecture development comes into being and the nature of the architecture itself, we explain that a 'top-down' approach will be effective in a rationally co...

Two studies investigated teacher activities that may lead to the development of competence, if not expertise. In Study I, 136 teachers indicated in a questionnaire that evaluation and planning activities (informal and formal) best parallel deliberate practice activities that Ericsson and colleagues report as accounting for expertise in other domains. In Study II, log data and interviews from ei...

structural and environmental complexity and also competitive challenges make priotrizing of technology development so critical for policy makers, managers and industries planner. although the necessity of this subject has been mentioned in literature, but there is not any specific process for technology planning at industry level. because of  this theoretical gap, researches uses the technology...

expert discovery is a quest in search of finding an answer to a question: “who is the best expert of a specific subject in a particular domain within peculiar array of parameters?” expert with domain knowledge in any field is crucial for consulting in industry, academia and scientific community. aim of this study is to address the issues for expert-finding task in real-world community. collabor...