Development is a classic focus of Vygotskian cultural-historical research. On the other hand, development is curiously absent in many recent ethnographic and interactionist approaches to the study of human practices. Partly this split may be due to the normative and vertical bias commonly associated with the notion of development. But if we keep development out of our studies of work and other ...

the indexed iranian journals in isi and pubmed at the end of 2012 with known impact factor (if) were evaluated with regard to the number of articles published in 2010-2012, the number of citations by authors from inside and outside iran, their if as well as their ranking order among all other journals in their specialized categories. there were among 130 english journals, 21 indexed with known ...

Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is increasingly taking a lead in enterprise management in terms of sustained profitability. Foci of researchers and practitioners are revolving around innovation methods, processes, and strategies. This chapter seeks to f...

Introduction Lately we have witnessed a renewed interest for data sharing and the development of reproducible research (Anon, 2008). Although the claim for transparency in research is not new (King, 1995), in the last few years researchers have been challenged with the management and processing of huge amounts of datasets for conducting large-scale studies in what is known as the 'Big Data' phe...

Global software Development (GSD) is a popular software development setting that aims at developing software at low cost with geographically distributed teams. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important issue in GSD. Plethora of research is available to solve GSD issues with Knowledge management practices (KMPs). Evidence about the effectiveness of these practices is scattered among different st...

Reading motivation is a well-researched topic in relation to first language literacy development due to its influence on both reading processes and outcomes. In second language reading, the role of motivation has not been as thoroughly explored. The aim of this review of literature is to highlight established studies as well as recent explorations in some recurring areas of first and second lan...

Academia appears to do a remarkable job at producing the next generation of research faculty. The longanticipated shortage of well-qualified researchers has not appeared [1]. At the same time, while there are calls to reform educational practices in college and university classrooms, we are not widely preparing our future faculty to develop or implement these research-based educational practice...

in this paper, we study the affect of contextual factors on quality management practices and organizations performance. the research method that led to this article is descriptive survey that we analyze gathered data with compare means statistical test. the result show that there is no significant effect of contextual factors on quality management practices and organizations performance. this r...