PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Aging successfully entails good physical and cognitive health, as well as ongoing participation in social and productive activity. This study hones in on participation in productive activity, a factor that makes an important contribution to successful aging. One conceptual model of productive activity in later life specifies the antecedents and consequences of productivity....

The present study intends to probe the impediments for the practicality of Critical language pedagogy (CLP) in higher education system of Iran. To do this, 20 Iranian university instructors, holding Ph.D. degrees in TEFL, were asked to read a passage reflecting the main characteristics of transformative pedagogy. To explore the main obstacles, they were invited for a semi-structured interview. ...

This paper, motivated by a collaboration with a healthcare service provider, focuses on stochastic open-shop service networks with two objectives: more traditional macro-level measures (such as minimizing total system time or minimizing total number of tardy customers) and the atypical micro-level measure of reducing the incidents of excessively long waits at any workstation within the process....

Given the importance of firm strategic management in time crisis, this study investigates Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) approaches to persistence during international sanctions against Iran. Using data from a questionnaire 486 firms between December 2019 September 2020, we found that reducing research development (R&D) expenditures, marketing costs fixed/overhead investing informa...