The performance of microprocessors has increased steadily over the past 20 years at a rate of about 50% per year. This is the cumulative result of architectural improvements as well as increases in circuit speed. Moreover, this improvement has been obtained in a transparent fashion, that is, without requiring programmers to rethink their algorithms and programs, thereby enabling the tremendous ...

considering the importance of extension agent as the mediator between farmers and experts, and their effective role in the transfer of knowledge and technology to farmers with the aim of achieving a sustainable agriculture system, the main purpose of this research was to analysis of the affecting factors on improvement of performance of extension agent from the farmers’ viewpoint in zahak towns...

This paper studies the role of efficiency in a firm’s decision to contract out. Emphasis is on the heterogeneous nature of firms and when firms are only considering outsourcing to domestic suppliers. Firm-level data on Australian manufacturing reveal an ordering of efficiency between firms that contract out and those that do not, in which contractingout firms are on aggregate less efficient. Th...

background: emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. evaluation methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. methods: the aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...