introductionhistoric cities and neighbourhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades andhave lost their quality in many aspects. regardless of different cultural, economic and social conditions, newneighbourhoods have been formed next to old areas of the cities. although these new areas welcom ed newfunctions, they couldn’t provide suitable environments for t...

This paper describes new algorithms for processing quantitative and qualitative Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems (TCSP). In contrast to discrete Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP), enforcing path-consistency on quantitative TCSP is exponential, due to the fragmentation problem. Identifying the fragmentation problem allows us to design several e cient polynomial algorithms that are ...

Evidence exists that one successful strategy to satisfy and retain customers is offering superior service quality. Motivated by the growing interest in e-commerce, we focus our research questions on identifying the key dimensions of e-commerce service quality and its relationships to customer satisfaction and loyalty. In exploring answers to our research questions a hypothesized model is propos...

This paper asks how internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government and citizen trust in government are interrelated. Prior research has found that agencies stress information and service provision on the Web (oneway e-government strategy), but have generally ignore applications that would enhance citizen-government interaction (two-way e-government strategy). Based on a review of the lite...

BACKGROUND Clinical trials are increasingly being designed to collect data directly from patients through the use of paper diaries or electronic diaries (e-diaries). E-diaries can be advantageous over paper diaries, but actual benefits may depend on the particular features of a given e-diary. The objective of this study was to determine which e-diary system features are most important to consid...

Success of any training system is based on satisfaction of the user and factors affecting this satisfaction. This article studies satisfaction of a hybrid training system (which is a combination of e-learning and traditional training systems) for Probability and Statistics for Engineers at Shahid Behashti University in Iran. Using the related literature, this article derives a model for factors...

This paper investigates the influence of performance related pay on several dimensions of job satisfaction. In cross-sectional estimates, performance related pay is associated with increased overall satisfaction, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with job security and satisfaction with hours. It appears to be negatively associated with satisfaction with the work itself. Yet, after accounting ...

The present study seeks to identify and prioritize the components and dimensions of e-commerce and categorize them as a comprehensive model by using the meta-synthesis method. In this research, total of 58 articles in the field of E-commerce was identified and examined in the first step. Latin articles were in the period of 1996 to 2017 and Persian articles were related to the period of 2001 to...

This study aimed to investigate the structural relationships among teaching presence, cognitive presence, usage, learning flow, satisfaction, and learning persistence in corporate e-learners. The research participants were 462 e-learners registered for cyber-lectures through an electronics company in South Korea. The extrinsic variables were sense of teaching presence, sense of cognitive presen...