introduction:the human being always attempts to find a way to improve his physical and mental abilities. history shows that, despite the many promotions in every branch of science and technology, we cannot see much improvement in thinking abilities. with the advent of the iinternet and www, many thought that the problem will be solved. but nowadays we can see that the main problem remains: the ...

despite the growing use of evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms in different categories of science, these algorithms as a powerful tool in portfolio optimization and specially solving multi-objective portfolio optimization problem is still in its early stages. in this paper, moeas have been used for solving multi-objective portfolio optimization problem in tehran stock market. f...

objectives: since problem solving group training is a comprehensive, active program and based-on cognitive behavioral approach, the aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving therapy on depression and coping style in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. methods: in an experimental design the study was done with pretest-posttest with control group. totally 30 f...

The Assessment and Teaching of 21 Century Skills (ATC21S) project had a research and development plan that reflected a traditional approach to conceptualisation of constructs, and then establishment of test blueprints followed by test construction. The test construction process included several stages – of drafting task ideas, panelling these with teachers, then piloting revised tasks, and tria...

Most of the research conducted in the area of deductive learning is experimental. However, many of the experiments reported are far from being systematic and thorough. There are many parameters that are embedded in the system's architecture and it is not clear how they effect the utility of the learned knowledge. In this paper we describe an attempt to perform systematic experiments in the doma...

Several years back, a meeting of the Operations Executive Council in my company was focused on the five-year corporate planning effort then getting underway. At this meeting I distributed a simple framework for classifying, organizing, and analyzing goals and objectives (see the Goals Grid in Figure 1 below). My colleagues saw this framework as very useful and so I was led to present it to a wi...