despite the presence of women in higher education and qualification levels of public decency, a small number of women have been appointed to management positions; therefore, they are less powerful than men in organizational decision-making processes.  in this research, organizational culture and consequently gender as the most important factor influencing corporate power distribution is conside...

Being one of the most expensive components of an electrical power plant, the failures of a power transformer can result in serious power system issues. So fault diagnosis for power transformer is highly important to ensure an uninterrupted power supply. Due to information transmission mistakes as well as arisen errors while processing data in surveying and monitoring state information of transf...

the goal of the present research is to investigate relationship between organizational culture and management accounting methods in firms in tehran stock exchange. data collection tools were a standard organizational culture questionnaire by hofstede and a researcher made questionnaire about management accounting. the statistical society for this research involves financial managers and account...

I Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to better understand how national culture influences the choice of control modes and mechanisms in captive offshoring and offshore outsourcing projects. Design / methodology / approach – Control theory with prior literature on ISO and national culture formed the theoretical foundations. Six national culture dimensions (i.e., power distance, indi...

This work studies a new distance function which takes into account expert knowledge by making use of fuzzy partitions. It considers the symbolic distances between concepts and is equivalent to the Euclidean distance for regular partitions made of triangular membership functions. Its behaviour is investigated in comparison with that of the Euclidean distance and its interest is shown for cluster...

Carbon dioxide causes green house effect and has been considered as a pollutant source forsafe environment. Since combustion of fossil fuel may create tremendous amount of carbon dioxide,detecting any pollutant sources would be important to eliminate the origin of pollution sources.Evaluation of smoke dispersion generated by the power plant utilizing fossil fuel is the objective of thispaper. T...

Acoustic signals are used for long-range communication in many animals from insects to birds and mammals. Long-range signals are used primarily by males to advertise and defend their home ranges or territories or to attract mates. During transmission over long distances, the structure of signals becomes progressively degraded. At the position at which a receiver makes a decision to respond, the...

The paper reports on a survey undertaken amongst first year students who were taking introductory courses in departments within Schools of IT at two South African universities. The purpose of the survey was to understand factors influencing career choice and how educationalists could use this to encourage enrollment in computer-related degree programmes. This paper considers association of valu...