the term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science. increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social science, is also highlighted. this paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological, methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm. finally, we b...

An effective scientometric analysis based on SCOPUS database was conducted to evaluate nanobiotechnology research from a different perspective for the period 2003–2012. Nanobiotechnology has been intensively investigated by bibliometric methods due to its technological importance and expected impacts on economic activity. The present study analyses nanobiotechnology research output during 2003–...

In this paper we obtain the extension of results on input-to-output stability properties of switched systems to switched systems whose dynamics are described by perturbed forced differential equations and whose outputs are obtained via switched perturbed functions. We also present Lyapunov characterizations of these input-output stability properties, obtained in terms of certain conceptual outp...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

Background: One of the main duties of a faculty member is to research in the field of medical education. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective factors on strengthening of research incentive in professors’ training. Methods: This study is cross-sectional (analytical descriptive study). The Target population was all teachers in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. Krejcie & Mo...

Designing a Model for Evaluating the Performance of Research Departments within the Provincial Divisions of MoE   G. Yooselyaani* M.R. Behrangi, Ph.D. ** H.R. Aaraasteh, Ph.D. *** B. Abdollaahi, Ph.D. ****   To improve the performance of the departments of research within the provincial divisions of Ministry of Education, based on the views of experts and the content of all adm...

This paper presents elements of control-oriented models of hybrid systems with input and output signals. Models can be composed through standard block-diagram interconnections. Transition systems with inputs and outputs are introduced to deene the semantics for open-loop hybrid systems. Fixed-point iterations can then used to synthesize logical supervisory controllers. This is illustrated for t...