recent study examines the impact of good governance on the human development index. in the present study, the human development index (hdi) considered as dependent variable, good governance is independent variables and the development of communication technology has been considered as the moderator variable. the study approach is econometric panel data analysis and gls regression analysis was u...

Robotics is a growing field that has received tremendous support and focus in recent years. Backed by government and industry interests, robots now have the potential to move beyond traditional manufacturing setting into human-centered environments. Therefore, safety emerges as one of the most fundamental requirements in designing Human-Centered Robots (HCRs). To attain HCRs with high mobility ...

Recently, many countries have adopted E-Government initiatives for providing public E-Services to their citizens. These initiatives, together with the existing and emerging private initiatives which offer E-Services, lead to a dramatic increase in the number of Internet users. This will form what is now known as E-Society. All E-Government initiatives consider citizen-centered approach, where u...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify and address research priorities for comparative effectiveness research. Among its many responsibilities, the institute has been charged with setting priorities, developing methodological standards, and communicating research results to decision makers. In this paper we consi...

With the evolution of linked open data sources, question answering regains importance as a way to make data accessible and explorable to the public. The triple structure of RDF-data at the same time seems to predetermine question answering for being devised in its native subject-verb-object form. The devices of natural language, however, often exceed this triple-centered model. But RDF does not...

Shaw and McKay advanced social disorganization theory in the 1930s, kick-starting a large body of research on communities crime. Studies emphasize individual impacts poverty, residential instability, racial/ethnic heterogeneity by examining their independent effects crime, adopting variable-centered approach. We use “neighborhood-centered” approach that considers how structural forces combine i...

iran achieved its self-sufficiency goal in wheat production a few years ago. some opponents argue that the increased wheat production has happened at the expense of decreasing other grains specially barley. considering the dependency of wheat and barley markets on each other, the study estimates policy preference functions for each market, separately. using weights according to the political in...

in the early 19th century and as a result of war circumstances, iran and britain experienced the formation and development of limited political intercourses. emergence of napoleon, as a serious danger made britain to pay a special attention to iran. on the other side, iran welcomed the expansion of its ties with britain due to its military conflicts with russia. although britain was not interes...