abstract nowadays information plays an important role in the development process of societies so that the usage of related technologies such as ict can speed up this process by preparing cheap and effective instruments and changing working and living styles. the aim of this paper is to investigate the main determinants of information and communication technology (ict) adoption in 18 selected as...

one of the new areas in the field of studying the country's development planning is border regions. although from past to present different aspects of the problems related to these regions have been studied, but spatial planning of border regions not only its position has not been clarified in the planning system of the country's development but also its dimensions and characteristics...

abstract: the subject of the life satisfaction is one of the important issues in development economics literature. in this paper, the main determinants of life satisfaction such as economic factors have been considered. for data analysis, the indices of life satisfaction have been collected among 400 people in tehran and neibouring provinces by applying stratified random sampling method. then, ...

innovation and sustainable development have been considered fundamental elements in the competitive positioning of companies. the synergies between both concepts, known as eco-innovation, must be considered when designing company policies. the aim of this paper is to analyse which moderating factors determine how innovative companies perform when implementing a sustainable proactive approach. w...

Most of the validation studies conducted across varying test application contexts are usually framed within the traditional conceptualization of validity and therefore lack a comprehensive framework to focus on test score interpretations and test score use. This study aimed at developing and validating a collocational behavior test (CBT), drawing on Kane's argument-based approach to validity. F...

The last twenty years have seen enormous progress in the design of algorithms, but little of it has been put into practice. Because many recently developed algorithms are hard to characterize theoretically and have large running-time coefficients, the gap between theory and practice has widened over these years. Experimentation is indispensable in the assessment of heuristics for hard problems,...