ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Information and communications technology facilities at the tertiary level education in some urban universities in Bangladesh
With the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. This study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the universities in Bangladesh. To that end, a survey was conducted on the undergraduate and graduate students of 9 private and public universities. To assess the quality of information and communications technology services, participants’ views on various aspects like the sufficiency of computers, availability of required software, maintenance and troubleshooting, internet and data sharing facilities, etc. were collected and analyzed. The study finds that although students are on the happier side with the information and communications technology installations and equipment, they are fairly unhappy about the maintenance services and internet facilities available at their universities. It gives some valuable insights about the information and communications technology facilities scenario at the universities that can be taken into consideration while planning future action plan and development of information and communications technology at the universities in Bangladesh.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_23600_b904bcea466991f2347a61de75ccd2ae.pdf
2016-07-01
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10.22034/ijhcum.2016.01.03.001
Bangladesh
Information and communications technology (ICT)
Facilities
Quality
Tertiary
F.
M. Shahriar
faisal.shahriar@ulab.edu.bd
1
School of Business, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh
AUTHOR
J.
Haque
jahirul.haque@ulab.edu.bd
2
School of Science and Engineering, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh
AUTHOR
M. K.
Barai
munim.barai@gmail.com
3
Graduate School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita, Japan
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Modeling and zoning of land subsidence in the southwest of Tehran using artificial neural networks
The earth's surface, due to its natural conditions and its structure is always changing and reshaping. One of the created deformations is the land subsidence. This is the most dangerous events which can be seen in most urban areas especially in the agricultural plains today. This study aims at zoning land subsidence and recognition of geometrical factors in southwest of Tehran. To estimate and predict land subsidence, all the effective subsidence factors were identified. Among the factors, nine most important factors including, downfall of groundwater, thickness of clay, depth of groundwater, annual discharge of water from wells, the distance of well to each other, slop, elevation, land use and geology were evaluated. Ultimately, three variables were selected as the most important variables. For modeling and zoning these factors, artificial neural network using Matlab software and Arc-GIS software for creating primary layers were used. The results indicate that the main cause of subsidence is excessive removal of underground water resources. Since the use of water resources in agriculture is accounted for the highest percentage of consumption and also because a large part of the study area have an agriculture land use, therefore the underground water drop and agricultural land uses are the most susceptible areas of land subsidence occurrence.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_22350_5bc712f97b11d8491377e77116bffa56.pdf
2016-07-01
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Artificial neural networks
Geomorphological components
Land use planning
Subsidence
Tehran
M.
Pishro
maesome_pishro@yahoo.com
1
Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Geography Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
S.
Khosravi
khosravi_somaye@yahoo.com
2
Department of Geomorphology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
AUTHOR
S.M.
Tehrani
tehranishohre@gmail.com
3
Human Resources Division, Municipality of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
S.R.
Mousavi
r.mousavi@yahoo.com
4
Department of Economic Geology, Kharazmi University,Tehran,Iran
AUTHOR
Abraham, A., (2005). Artificial neural networks. Handbook of measuring system design. DOI: 10.1002/0471497398.mm421
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Bani Asadi, F., (2007). Modeling land subsidence in Zarand plain of Kerman. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Shahid Beheshti, Iran. (In Persian)
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Role of environmental rights in the urban design of public places
In the current period, followed by the industrial revolution, the damaging effects of the one-dimensional attitude towards the environment caused by human have had countless hazards. To cope with these risks, the respect and protection of environmental values has attracted today's urban human attention once again and the issues about the human right to a decent, safe and healthy environment which is called briefly" environmental rights ", have widely been discussed. In fact, this research is formed on the basis of the principle that the right to a healthy environment, must be respected in the design of public spaces and the legal aspects of this principle must be considered in dealing with these spaces, so one of the necessary contexts to the conversion of today’s public spaces to valuable urban places would be provided. Therefore, in this study the human right to a healthy, safe and decent environment and the related concepts has been reviewed and the role of the environment in the process of transforming urban spaces to urban places has been discussed. This study also emphasizes on the role of the noise pollution of the urban public spaces as one of the threatening factors of the right to the environment, in the inefficiency and disorder in the process of the conversion of these spaces to public places and while reviewing the laws to reduce such pollution in urban public spaces, it stresses the necessity of considering these rules in designing the urban public spaces. This study uses descriptive and analytic research methodology and investigation techniques of literature review by using library studies.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_23165_92559dff5be279d0bb7cfb944ddd5e41.pdf
2016-07-01
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Environmental rights
noise pollution
Public place
Urban space
A.R.
Sadeghi
arsadeghi.shirazu@gmail.com
1
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
N.
Panahi
niloofarpanahi68@gmail.com
2
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
Abbaspour, M., (1992). Environment Engineering. Islamic Azad University Publications, Tehran. (In Persian)
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Role of training camp to identity formation among teenagers
The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of Jihadi camps on the identity formationof teenagers in Iran. Seventy-six campers participated in the study and were randomly divided into control(n = 42) and experimental groups (n =34). The control group does not follow the camp’s regular program whilethe experimental group attended to the camp’s regular program. All participants completed the DellasIdentity Status Inventory, this questionnaire consists of two subscales of achievers: commitment andexploration. The results revealed statistically significant differences between the experimental andnonexperimental group, in two specific attitude subscales. These findings imply that participation in thisparticular camp can have a positive influence on teenagers’ professional Identity.
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Dellas Identity Status Inventory (DISI)
Jihadi training camp
Professional identity formation
Teenagers
Tehran
T.
Nikraftar
tnikraftar@gmail.com
1
Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
Beijaard, D.; Meijer, P.C.; Verloop, N., (2004). Reconsidering research on teachers’ professional identity, Teach.Teach. Edu., 20(2): 107–128 (22 pages).
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Cultural Relativity of Moral Precepts
The foundation of most intellectual discourse is Western-centric to the exclusion of other views. This includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. Such a position is culturally myopic. Western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. The assumption is that Western-centric moral precepts are universally followed. This paper explores these concepts and discusses the dominance of Western-centric point of view in moral precepts. It describes how non-Western-centric views are different and argues that understanding non-Western-centric concepts is a useful undertaking that could expand our horizons.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_23599_58d674bff230adf08beb1af77e873c50.pdf
2016-07-01
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Culture and morals
Moral precepts
Western-centric views of morals
K.
Fatehi
kfatehi@kennesaw.edu
1
Management and Entrepreneurship Department, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, 560 Parliament Garden Way, Kennesaw, GA 30144-8599, U.S.A.
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k.
Teymournejad
kaveh_teymournejad@yahoo.com
2
College of Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadi Street, Tehran, Iran
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Evaluation and comparison of job stress among security workers with fixed and shift work schedules in Municipality of Tehran
Municipality of Tehran with huge number of employees and with the aim to reduce stress and promote the work efficiency, seriously wants to achieve suitable and utilizable studies. Osipow's job stress test is one of the best tools to reach this aim. Data population includes securities building of municipality of Tehran (88 persons from region 18 and 72 persons from region 20), who were randomly chosen to be participated in the current survey. For this purpose three types of working hours schedule such as full time shift ( 24 hrs work, 24 hrs rest ), day-shift and night-shift workers, were selected. Data were analyzed by SPSS software and processed by a professional test, MANOVA. Difference of scores in workload role and insufficiency role in subjects with considering of age groups in confidence 95% was valuable (p<0.05). Differences of scores in job stress and subscales of insufficiency role, ambiguity role with considering of work shifts in confidence 95% were statistically significant (p<0.05). At the end, differences of scores in subscales of role rang and responsibility with considering of job regions in confidence 95% were statistically significant (p<0.05).This survey determined that stress decreased with increasing the age. Also work shift had important role in the amount of stress. Therefore, the lowest level of stress was among night-shift workers and the highest stress level was among day-shift workers and 24-24 group was between them. Of course region of workers was related with job stress.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_22617_62b5f2119cb637b8da2bcf61d76c62a6.pdf
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Osipow's questionnaire
municipality
Stress
Securities
Tehran
Work shift
A.
Chaichi
amir_chaichi2002@yahoo.com
1
Polyclinic Department, District 1, Tehran Municipality, Tehran, Iran
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Sh.
Bakand
bakand183@yahoo.com
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Department of Occupational Health, Iran University of Medical science, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
R.
Yarahmadi
yarahmadi.r@yyahoo.com
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Department of Occupational Health, Iran University of Medical science, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
Abbaszade, R., (2003). Evaluation of Job Stress on Psychological health of Tehran traffic personnel in 12 area. M.Sc. Dissertation, Iran University of Medical Science. (In Persian)
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Environmental planning and management of urban natural landscapes
Advantages of urbanization such as access to clean water, health, and overall easier life in cities, as well as the disadvantages or its negative effects on environment cannot be ignored. Today, there are numerous environmental problems due to the reduction in ecologically valuable places within urban areas. Bringing nature to the cities appears to be essential to enhance urban environment and to reduce environmental problems in urban communities. In fact, issues resulting from the idea of "sustainability" as a policy-making goal require an integrated environmental policy-making approach. The innovations of new environmental policy-making require policy-making mechanisms that can deal with interdependent characteristics of environmental problems. To this end, new structures have emerged known as Environmental Planning and Management and Strategic Environmental planning and management. This analytical – descriptive article aims to re-examine the origins and concepts related to environmental planning using a field and desk study. With the introduction of urban natural landscape, Environmental planning considers such spaces within the city. In this regard, Khoshk River, Shiraz, Iran, as an urban natural landscape, was analyzed. Environmental planning-based polices were proposed to improve quality of the place under discussion.
https://www.ijhcum.net/article_22229_e87dbff12816d4f236ec236f9e98cb68.pdf
2016-07-01
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Environmental planning and management (EPM)
Khoshk River of Shiraz City
Urban natural landscape
Sustainability
A.R.
Sadeghi
arsadeghi@shirazu.ac.ir
1
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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M.
Khakzand
mkhakzand@iust.ac.ir
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School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Investigating the relationship between employees’ empowerment and organizational commitment with organizational health mediation in Tehran Municipality, Revenue Recognition and Collection department
In today’s leading organizations, employees’ empowerment is considered as a significant issue in human resource management cycle and it has become a central theme of management functions and practices. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between empowerment of staffs and organizational commitment with organizational health mediation. The results showed that there is a relationship between staffs empowerment and organizational commitment, and the aspects of empowerment (competence, effectiveness, autonomy, trust, choice right) are also associated with organizational commitment and that the variable of organizational health plays a mediation role in the relationship between staffs’ empowerment and organizational commitment in the office of revenue recognition and collection in Tehran Municipality. This research is of descriptive type. To analyze the data, initially the normality of data was examined by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and then assumptions were evaluated by using the model of structural equations and LISREL software.
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10.22034/ijhcum.2016.01.03.008
Tehran municipality
Organizational Commitment
organizational health
Staffs’ empowerment
B.
Movahedi
b.movahedi@chmail.ir
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Department of Business Management, Islamic Azad University of Buin- Zahra, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
M.
Azarpira
mo.azarpira@yahoo.com
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Department of Public Administration, Institute for management and planning studies, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
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