This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their procedural knowledge in Iranian language institutes and universities. A questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework, and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EFL teachers from different gend...

the crankshaft is one of the most critically loaded components as it experiences cyclic loads in the form of bending and torsion during its service life. its failure will cause serious damage to the engine so it’s important at the time of design to verify fatigue strength. more challenges in crankshaft design due to increasing vehicle payloads, lower weight requirement, higher efficiency and lo...

Abstract International trade is currently under fire from many sides. Protectionist policies are on the rise, putting an end to decade‐long March of free trade. Making sense daily headlines and having informed opinion your own has rarely been more important than it now. Our work aims explain driving forces behind international trade, its history, how shaped world, economic models, issues rangin...

Nowadays, production control problems have been widely studied and a lot of valuable approaches are implemented. This talk addresses the problem of tracking the uncertain demand in case of uncertain production speeds. The uncertainties are described by deterministic inequalities and the performance is analyzed in the from of worst-case scenarios. First, simple mathematical models are introduced...

One of the most important applications in visual analytics has been exploratory visual analysis of large collections of unstructured text documents. However, digital media, especially those on the Internet, are multimedia in content with text, images, video, and even sound together. Furthermore, there is an explosion of broadcast and other media, especially in third world countries. (In the Mid...

In this talk, various trends in the current service economy are explained. Global economy has turned out to be a service-oriented economy, in addition to the fact that the economy is going along with more digitized information rather than just labor intensive human service activities. In Japan's case, for example, more than 70% of GDP has been created by service sectors in a broader sense recen...

This article analyses the accomplishment of boundary work performed by professionals engaged in inter-agency collaboration. As a means of building authority within a particular field, boundary work is found to be a common feature of most professional practices. By analysing the talk of Finnish professionals who work in the field of supported housing in mental health, the article investigates th...