The purpose of this study is to explore postgraduate students’ self-directed learning (SDL) readiness using Mobile (M-learning) in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a platform and task-centred activity. Reflective practice used measure students SDL readiness. This qualitative nature. research employed thematic analysis method, which involved systematic coding processes, entailing coding, f...

a large part of the country's industrial and manufacturing units are small and medium enterprises, but these firms have not been able to play an important contribution to achieving the export development goals. given the importance of export promotion as the engine of the economy and low export share of smes, the purpose of this study is explanation the policy of export promotion for this ...

Five theories of how letter position is coded are contrasted: position-specific slot-coding, Wickelcoding, open-bigram coding (discrete and continuous), and spatial coding. These theories make different predictions regarding the relative similarity of three different types of pairs of letter strings: substitution neighbors, neighbors-once-removed, and double-substitution neighbors. In Experimen...

The aim of this study is to present a comprehensive human resources model based on ISO34000 standard at Khorasan Razavi Electricity Distribution Company. This study is mixed, sequential exploratory, and applied. The qualitative population was the experienced and scientific experts. The quantitative population was 153 managers, deputies and experts responsible for the electricity company selecte...

MOTIVATION Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are non-coding RNAs of length above 200 nucleotides, play important biological functions such as gene expression regulation. To fully reveal the functions of lncRNAs, a fundamental step is to annotate them in various species. However, as lncRNAs tend to encode one or multiple open reading frames, it is not trivial to distinguish these long non-co...

This paper evaluates two temporally scalable video coding techniques, temporal subband coding (TSB) and predictive coding, both theoretically and in practice to provide comparisons of compression and visual quality at differing frame rates. An emphasis is placed on evaluating only the visual effects caused by the temporal coding technique rather than those introduced by any spatial coding. Resu...

background: iran is one of the countries that has ratified the world health organization framework convention of tobacco control (who-fctc), and has implemented a series of tobacco control interventions including the comprehensive tobacco control law. enforcement of this legislation and assessment of its outcome requires a dedicated evaluation system. this study aimed to develop a generic model...

globally, there have been considerable debates on the ethical conduct and review of collaborative international researches. one of the great challenges is to conduct clinical trials in developing countries as externally-sponsored researches (esr). this descriptive survey has reviewed the status of this type of researches in iran during 2002 to 2003. this study was carried out in 44 universities...

background: the objective of this qualitative study on young adults with type 1 diabetes was to determine the factors associated with mismanagement of diabetes. methods: in this qualitative study, a descriptive phenomenological and psychological method was followed. purposeful sampling method was used in this study. 28 young adults aged 18-25 with type 1 diabetes (16 females, 12 males) with hba...

We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as typically expressed in English through prenominal adjectival modification. Our method employs a system based on compositional language processing, as applied to the British National Corpus. Experimental results suggest ...