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 present study sought to investigate the impact of using mind-mapping technique instruction on female elementary efl learners reading comprehension; it also investigated their attitudes towards using mind-mapping technique as a tool to improve their reading comprehension. this study followed a quasi-experimental design with two intact groups as experimental, and control groups. the participa...

The IRI government in recent years has developed and implemented a particular measure titled "clients honour in public sector" based on valued principles and the scientific outcomes of "demoncracy" and customer-orientation". The measure's imprementatin has brought about many achievements. However, lacking right procedures to measure and evaluate its degree of effectiveness resulted in some draw...

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

a simple, rapid and low-cost scanner spectroscopy method for the glucose determination by utilizing glucose oxidase and cdte/tga quantum dots as chromoionophore has been described. the detection was based on the combination of the glucose enzymatic reaction and the quenching effect of h2o2 on the cdte quantum dots (qds) photoluminescence.in this study glucose was determined by utilizing glucose...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

building on previous studies on intellectual features and learners’ grammar learning, the present study aimed at investigating whether intelligence criterion had any impact on efl learners’ english grammar learning across two intelligence levels. in the current study, the participants were divided into two experimental and control groups by administration of raven i.q. test. this led to the for...

Purpose: The present study identifies the factors affecting organizational governance in public sector agencies and ranks them according to their importance. Methodology: The study was exploratory, and the data collection method included interviews and questionnaires. The sources of questions were audit reports and budget deductions of the state agencies from 2014 to 2019. Based on the intervi...

Cost-effectiveness of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy and Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patients with Morbid Obesity: A Systematic Review Talebianpour Hamid1, Shahab Alizadeh2*   1. Ph.D. Student, School of Public Health, Department of Management Sciences and Health Economics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Nutrition and Dietetic...