In this paper, we: (a) review briefly the problematic nature of the initial design process and the subsequent paradigm shift in which the formerly separate strands of research and design became interwoven into a dialectical collaborative process, (b) outline the way in which the multimedia program makes possible a multi-dimensional curriculum including a constructivist epistemology of undergrad...

BACKGROUND Priority setting is one of the major issues in the health research system and no health system can afford to pay for every research they want to do, particularly in developing countries, so we decided to set the national main areas of the health research priorities. METHODS In this study, according to Essential National Health Research (ENHR) strategy and with cooperation of all th...

In a scholarly convention, ESP has bilaterally focused on “academic” and “occupational” arenas leaving the symbiosis between the two almost untouched. The present study, thus, aims to weigh the concordance between what is taught in universities as EAP courses for B.A. students in Business and Economics and what English skills and abilities are, actually, required from them on the job. A...

Since the transportation sector plays an important role in business cycle propagation, we develop indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. We define the reference cycle, including both business and growth cycles, for this sector over the period from 1979 using both the conventional National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) method and modern time series...

intellectual capital is most vital enabler of enterprises. managing intellectual capital effectively can greatly enhance the competitive advantages of any enterprises. this study focused on how the enterprises utilize intellectual capital, in order to strengthen the competitiveness of enterprises. this research established a novel assessment model to measure the performance of intellectual capi...

In this paper we address one of the key issues reported in the FInES (Future Internet Enterprise Systems) Research Roadmap, namely, the paradigm shift that the architectures of enterprise systems (ES) need to undergo in the next decade. Such paradigm shift is primarily motivated by a repositioning of the aims of enterprise systems that, the since their inception, have been conceived to support ...

Many cross-organizational business processes are implemented by hubs and integration platforms which support the electronic collaboration of multiple organizations. The available concepts and solutions based on service-oriented architectures focus on the automatization of long-term business relationships. However, they often do not provide intuitive ways to modify them according to situational ...