In recent years supply chains have gained the attention of many researchers & industrialists. Within today's competitive market, producers are not only concerned with their internal conditions, but the selection of the best markets together with the best providers. Functioning of the supply chain depends on the vast chain of supplies for providing customer needs, which include ease of customer ...

this thesis is a study on insurance fraud in iran automobile insurance industry and explores the usage of expert linkage between un-supervised clustering and analytical hierarchy process(ahp), and renders the findings from applying these algorithms for automobile insurance claim fraud detection. the expert linkage determination objective function plan provides us with a way to determine whi...

the application of a comprehensive model of communicative language ability (cla) to language teaching and testing has always been an imperative in l2 education since hymess proposal of communicative competence in the 1970s. recent l2 research has clearly underscored the importance of sufficient pragmatics representation as an essential component of cla in pedagogical and testing practices in l2...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ class management practices with students’ self- regulated learning and academic self-efficacy. in this study relating to the management class, three dimensions, (training management, people management and behavior management) and three style (interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist) was considered. r...

Strategic management is the art and science of formulating, executing and evaluating multifunctional decisions which enables the organization to accomplish its goals. This article tries to formulate the strategy of the X Internet Service Provider (ISP) through SWOT analysis as well as to devise the way of strategy execution and performance measurement by means of Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Later...

Companies with high performances try to attract and maintain customers loyalty. One of the best tools for this is effective market orientation in organizations. This research aims to survey influence of company’s market orientation on stakeholders’ created value with customer’s satisfaction medium influence and financial performance in Tehran stock exchange. Statistical popula...

the purpose of this study was to investigate how english language teachers in mashhad who teach students in the pre-university cycle perceived the impact of the efltee on their teaching. the target population was nearly all pre-university english language teachers in seven districts of mashhad in the scholastic year 2008/2009. a survey questionnaire which consisted of (36) likert type items, wa...

according to webster and wind (1972) and anderson et al (1987), “organizational buying is a complex process and involves many people from different functional areas, multiple goals and potentially conflicting decision criteria. moreover, the customers of today are also more knowledgeable and selective when making their purchasing decisions. since a key to organizational survival is the retentio...

the quest for power has formed much of the world history especially in 20th and 21st centuries. oil (energy) particularly after industrial revolution has been a tool for conquest and power and has been transformed to a geopolitical issue. from a geopolitical point of view this has been the case for the last two centuries in central asia and caucasus. central asia and caucasus has always been...