a superficial glance at graduate-level entrance exam items and results (1387) for political science has led me to formulate the following question: to what extent is the process of test construction compatible with the scientific fundamentals of test construction process. the present research aims, on the whole, to upgrade the validity of the exam items and to prevent its dire consequences. the...

elamite documents, and evidence of elamite writing in general, are rare from this period. however from susa under the sukkalmah period, there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian in various legal subjects, like sale, lease, and judicial procedures; this provides the historian with a unique opportunity fir the study of elamite legal and social institutions. the present essay will edit and tr...

This research aims to study the effect of using digital (web-based) analyses in performance measurement and optimization of digital marketing in digital-based companies in Tehran. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. A panel of experts and supervisor were asked to measure the validity of the questionnaire. For reliability analysis of this tool, Cronbach’s alpha test was...

Two methods using nujol and hexachloro-butadiene mulls are described to analyse the water content of powdered granite samples. The nujol mull analyses were carried out on a Unicam SP Ioo spectrometer using the silica content of the rock as an internal standard. The hexachlorobutadiene mull analyses were done by a twin-path Unicam SP 2oo spectrometer, using hexachlorobutadiene as the internal st...

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is an emerging concept in Information Systems (IS) research providing the means for an efficient administration of digital content. However, there are lots of obstacles which may face enterprises when adopting ECM. In particular the diligent analysis of an organisation‟s individual content situation often turns out to be a major success factor. However, adequ...

Pips is an experimental tool to implement and evaluate various inter-procedural compilation, parallelization, analysis and optimization techniques. This paper focuses on the workbench used to build these compilers. It includes the management of data structures, of dependences between the various analysis and transformation phases, and the mathematical libraries used to implement some of the mos...

This paper introduces SmartWeb, a proxy-based content re-authoring system for HTML pages. The purpose of this process is to adapt the original content to the capabilities of the client device. To achieve this goal SmartWeb performs some structural analyses and applies some transformations accordingly. SmartWeb is a robust and easily extendable system for content adaptation. It uses many kinds o...

Many Chinese companies have built their online presences but few studies examine if the Chinese corporate websites follow the recommended design guidelines. Through a content analysis of 487 websites of the largest Chinese companies, the study analyses 55 content and design elements of the corporate homepages. The results provide a comprehensive evaluation on the homepage content and design cha...