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In this article, with the help of Heidegger and Foucault's conceptual tools, as well as the achievements of the cognitive science, we try to examine the transition from paper reading to digital reading. This discussion can be a preparation for a philosophical understanding of the digital age. We show that Heidegger's analysis of the ready-to-hand beings and technology can help to understand the reading behaviors of paper and digital readers. We have also use Heidegger's analytical framework for text ontology. On the other hand, Foucault's reflections on the embodied technologies can explain the power-knowledge relationships that is constructed around the reader. In addition, the cognitive science has provided detailed empirical findings on the effects of reading behaviors on the human cognitive biases and skills by examining the various modes of reading. Embodied and skillful cognitive science, by going beyond the computational understanding of human beings, has noticed the various behaviors and states of the body in reading processes and highlighted their effects. To integrate these areas of research, we try to place the findings of the cognitive science within the framework of Heidegger and Foucault's technological understanding of the modern power-knowledge relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the realm of art. Drawing on the philosophy and ethics of AI, this study examines the ethical challenges that may arise in the art domain. Given the increasing use and penetration of AI in the field of art, there is a need for more careful attention to the ethical dimensions of this phenomenon by scholars of art and philosophy. To achieve the objective of the paper, concepts such as AI, some of its techniques, and the ethical issues of AI in art are explained and analyzed using the analytical-descriptive method. The findings of the study reveal that ethical issues such as privacy and surveillance, manipulation of behavior, opacity and transparency, bias in decision systems, and automation and employment can be investigated in the field of art. These ethical issues are sometimes in conflict and sometimes in direct relation with each other. This study suggests that addressing the ethical questions of AI in the field of art requires addressing the ethical questions of AI in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Todays, business environment is facing a lot of uncertainty, and this increases the importance of budgeting in companies. This is why in recent years; various researches have been conducted in this field. Accordingly, this paper aims to evaluate them and answer to these questions: “what are the budgeting weaknesses in companies? What are the budgeting improvement obstacles in companies? And what are the approaches to improve budgeting in companies?” So, we search journal papers in this field using a systematic literature review and based on PRISMA protocol. After screening papers based on eligibility criteria, 32 papers were finally approved as papers related to the purpose and research questions. For achieving the trustworthiness of data and research findings, while using valid databases and applying a systematic process in literature review, research input sources were present to two experts and in addition an attempt was made to provide a rich description of the research process. Then, by analyzing the selected papers, 9 weaknesses, 6 obstacles and 20 improvement approaches were extracted. finally, considering the theoretical gap of existing researches, suggestions for future researches were presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jalaloddin Davani who has written many books, treatises, and letters, is one of the great scholars of the Shiraz school of thought during the Timurid period. Considering his influential attitude in the dynamics and excellence of Persian mystical literature, it is important to know about his Persian works which often include mysticism, philosophy, and theology. Obviously, before judging his opinions and beliefs, one should investigate the authenticity of his works. Therefore, the present research aims at the critical codicology of Persian works attributed to Davani to determine their authenticity. Reviewing the catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries shows that, in most catalogues, there are many mistakes in the title of Davani's Persian works. These bibliographic mistakes have been repeated in the works of many subsequent authors. To write the paper First, based on the Union Catalogue of Iran Manuscripts (Fankha), the titles of all Persian works attributed to Davani were identified. Then, using his Persian manuscripts and other sources, the authenticity of his Persian works in the catalogue of manuscripts was examined. In this study, through the comparative investigation of Davani's Persian manuscripts in Iran, some of our codicological and bibliographic information about Davani's Persian works have been corrected, especially the title and number of his authentic and non-authentic works. The result of the current critical codicology showed that Davani has written at least twenty original Persian works. In addition, according to the entries of Davani's Persian works in Fankha, at least nine nonoriginal Persian works have been attributed to him. Thus, at least nine entries of Davani's Persian works in Iran seem incorrect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simultaneous use of an efficient routing protocol and mobile sink not only prevents rapid sensor energy depletion but also effectively improves the energy balance in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, a new data aggregation method is proposed called "Ant colony-based Routing and Petal-shaped Data Aggregation (ARPDA)", which includes clustering, Cluster Head (CH) selection, intra-cluster routing, determining polling points, and designing the sink node trajectory. In the proposed method, the network is divided by several virtual concentric circles that are equidistant from each other. The intersection point of these circles with the virtual lines passing through the origin of the network determines the probable polling points for the sink node. First, by efficiently clustering the sensor nodes and forming an intra-cluster routing tree based on the ant colony optimization algorithm, the sensor data is aggregated in CHs; then, by selecting the appropriate polling points and designing a petal-shaped path, the sink node periodically collects the aggregated data in CHs based on two linear and circular movements. Considering the sink movement in the CH selection process is another advantage of the proposed algorithm. Numerical results confirm the better performance of the proposed algorithm compared to the EDT algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Today, active participation and empowerment of rural communities are essential for achieving environmental sustainability. Empowering local people will lead to their active involvement in environmental protection. Research Method: This research aimed to elucidate the concept of environmental empowerment strategy in rural communities, identify effective indicators, and present strategies in South Mirbeg District. It is a part of basic research with an exploratory approach due to its purpose and descriptiveanalytical methodology. After identifying and defining the effective components of environmental empowerment through literature review and expert opinions, a specialized questionnaire was designed to collect information from 365 households and 5 villages. Research Innovation: The innovative aspect of this research lay in the thematic combination of empowerment and environmental strategies. Research Findings: The components of new environmental technologies (A4) with a weighting factor of 0.094, financial incentives (A8) with a weighting factor of 0.094, and environmental investments (A11) with a weighting factor of 0.086 had the greatest effects on the process of environmental empowerment in the territory. Among the selected indicators, the effect coefficient of managers and decision-makers (A14) with a weighted value of 0.014 and the index of extrapolated plans and programs (A15) with a weighted value of 0.019 had the lowest effects on the process of environmental empowerment of residents in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to efficiently find the number and optimal placement of BTSs in the coverage area such that the implementation cost is minimized, while the user's traffic in the corresponding area and the channel interference constraints are satisfied. Design/methodology/approach: An integer linear mathematical model has been proposed to assign all customer points to transceiver-based stations. The objective function has been assumed to minimize fixed costs while considering a penalty for reducing interference. An optimization solver has been applied to solve the model. Findings: The proposed mathematical model was compared to another existing model in the literature from three points of view: coverage cost, construction costs, and running time. The results indicated that the proposed model has the appropriate efficiency to find solutions to real practical problems. In more detail, the proposed model succeeded to find solutions with less coverage or construction cost in a shorter time, compared with the model in literature, which has been referred to as the SSH model in the paper. However, there have been some samples in which the SSH model overtakes the proposed model in one or two mentioned aspects for comparison. Research limitations/implications: The limitation of this study is that the channel model was considered based on the simple free space path loss model, while the real channel model based on the environmental effects can be suggested for future work. Another important issue is that for BTS localization design, knowing the status of the real environment leads to the proper design in such networks. Social/practical implications: BTS localization is the most important issue in mobile networks' design. In a practical situation, there is not any software available to design a mobile network in the corresponding coverage area. Therefore, this paper can help communication engineers to implement the proposed approach in a real environment. Originality/value: In this paper, the problem of the optimal location of transceiver-based stations (BTS) in different models in the coverage area has been addressed such that the implementation cost is minimized, while the user's traffic in the corresponding area and the channel interference constraints are satisfied. This has not been considered in the literature. Any of the existing models focus on one aspect to optimize, such as maximizing the coverage, minimizing the interference, and minimizing coverage or construction costs. The novelties of the proposed model are twofold: i) two goals were considered in the objective function, i.e., minimizing construction costs and minimizing interference. Since interference with full coverage is unavoidable, the model added a penalty to the objective function to reduce the interference as much as possible; and ii) it was assumed that there is more than one single type BTS, any of which has different power, radius, and capacity. This makes the model more real and indeed more complicated to solve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to propose a flow shop scheduling problem for equipment overhaul. This problem consists of three stages, the separation of the components of an equipment is done in the first stage. Repairs and overhaul operations are carried out on the separated parts of the first stage in the second stage. Finally, the overhauled parts of the previous stage are mounted on each other in the third stage. In the third stage, operations are performed in parallel workshops. The objective function of the problem is the maximum time to complete jobs, and the sequence of processing jobs should be done in such a way that the value of the objective function is minimized. Design/methodology/approach: To solve the problem, a mixed integer programming model has been proposed for small size, which determines the processing sequence of jobs based on the position of each job. A genetic algorithm has been used to solve the problem in large dimensions. By increasing the size of the problem and in different sizes, the results have been examined and analyzed, which shows the efficiency of the model and the proposed algorithm. Findings: To check the accuracy of the model's performance and also the effect of the presence of parallel machines in the third stage, an example was presented in this paper. Accordingly, while the accuracy of the model's performance was checked, the effect of the presence of more machines was determined in the third stage. As the number of machines increased in the third stage, the value of the objective function did not deteriorate. The performance of GAMS in solving the problem in a small size was investigated. Considering that solving the problem for large dimensions is not possible in a reasonable time and the problem is NP-hard, then solving the problem in large dimensions was done using a genetic algorithm. Therefore, solving the problem on a large dimension has been done using the genetic algorithm. According to the obtained results, the efficiency of the genetic algorithm was shown. Due to its low average value, it indicated the convergence of the genetic algorithm. Research limitations/implications: Considering that there are not many published papers in the field of equipment overhaul, it is difficult to access related models and papers. Therefore, in this paper, the model and solution method have been written with many reviews. Also, to check and reduce costs, the number of third-stage machines has been determined using sensitivity analysis. Practical implications: The problem of equipment overhaul is used in many fields in reality. For example, the operations related to the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the aircraft engine have been investigated. Since the planning of maintenance and maintenance operations is difficult, the focus of research has been on improving maintenance operations by finding suitable scheduling for job shop operations in maintenance operations. They emphasized that scheduling can improve maintenance operations and presented a simulation model. Social implications: The purpose of creating a space to start an activity is to reduce costs, earn money and achieve profit. To examine the cost-effectiveness of the equipment overhaul issue, we can refer to the number of third-stage machines. According to the amount of equipment to perform an overhaul on them, the number of third-stage machines can be determined. Therefore, extra machines can be removed to reduce the cost. On the other hand, if the related equipment to the customers is different, to reduce the storage costs or increase customer satisfaction, different goals should be considered. Here, the objective function of maximum completion time is considered for this purpose. If the equipment must be available at a certain time, goals such as the total time to complete the job can be considered. In line with the application of the social implications in the investigated problem in this paper and considering that the investment costs, as well as the ability to respond to the applicants' requests, are related to the number of third-stage machines, the value of the objective function is analyzed based on the number of third-stage machines and analysis has been done. Originality/value: In this paper, a three-stage flow shop scheduling problem in the overhaul industry was studied. Accordingly, a new mathematical model based on the job processing position was proposed, which dealt with the exact solution of the problem in small dimensions. According to the type of problem in the overhaul environment, the combined flow shop problem for equipment overhaul was investigated. Also, the use of parallel machines in the third stage of the equipment overhaul problem is one of the new issues under investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction The issue of administrative corruption has become a pressing matter in Iran, affecting various aspects of the society. Corruption is a persistent and complex problem that perpetuates human underdevelopment through harmful cycles. According to Transparency International Organization, it involves the exploitation of entrusted power for personal gain. Despite the widespread presence of corruption within Iranian society, current evidence from both internal and external sources suggests that the education system conflicts with academic institutions as a particularly influential source of corrupt behavior. Academic corruption is a well-known phenomenon in Iranian universities with numerous examples, such as scientific fraud, plagiarism, forgery, distortion, academic black market, and buying and selling of articles appearing in the country's universities. Some investigators consider academic corruption as a form of scientific corruption, while others define it as encompassing all forms of unethical and improper conduct committed by educational advocates that violate ethical, social, legal, or institutional guidelines for personal or organizational gain with detrimental effects on an institution's objectives and principles. Despite the long-standing use of the term "academic corruption" in Iran's scholastic context, it remains largely unexplored from a scholarly perspective. Materials & Methods This study utilized qualitative methodology and a grounded theory approach to explore the perspectives of academic activists, including professors and doctoral students, on various aspects related to fraudulent practices in academia, such as contexts, causes, strategies, and repercussions. Grounded theory is a research method that involves deriving theoretical constructs directly from the data collected over time for analytical purposes. The research followed the Strauss and Corbin's paradigm model, which is a systematic plan for grounded theory methodology. The focus was on professors and doctoral students from Shiraz and Yasouj universities, who were selected based on their experiences with academic corruption. A sample of 25 participants was chosen through theoretical sampling and semi-structured interviews were conducted until theoretical saturation was reached, meaning that no new features or characteristics related to academic corruption and its causes were identified. The collected information underwent a three-fold coding process, including open, axial, and selective coding methods, to facilitate the analysis of the results. This process led to the identification of a core category or primary classification, which was represented in a paradigm model. To ensure the accuracy of the findings, two researchers independently analyzed and coded the data using analytical techniques. Additionally, member feedback was collected to assess the validity of the communication and respondent validation was employed through continuous comparison checks by using the codes developed by the investigators to assess the reliability of the research results. Discussion of Results & Conclusion The findings of this study revealed that corruption in academia was influenced by various factors. The primary causal conditions included the presence of oil money, a deficient administrative system, and compromised institutional independence. In addition, poor awareness of corrupt practices and inadequate monitoring mechanisms acted as the intervening circumstances that facilitated academic misconduct. Situational factors, such as departmental culture and individual work experience, as well as background guidelines like university policies, also played a significant role in promoting fraudulent activities within higher education institutions. On the other hand, academic activists employed strategies, such as student alienation, deliberate silence, two-way blackmail, outsourcing, hostagetaking, and strategic cooperation, to further their corrupt practices. The consequences of academic corruption were commodification of science, emergence of an academic proletariat, alienation, moral dilemmas, decline in credibility and trust in universities, and institutionalization of corruption in the society. Based on the results, it could be concluded that university corruption operated as a double-edged sword, benefiting both the structure and the activist in the short term but leading to negative outcomes in the long run. This meant that the political structure and system, by prioritizing the quantity of articles produced through scientific research, could showcase their standing in the global community, while academic scholars benefited from the publishing papers and projects. However, this approach had drawbacks for both parties involved. The articles evaluated solely based on quantity did not directly correlate with production or economic growth, resulting in limited social welfare within a country. Moreover, the professors and students, who prioritized the publishing quantitative content might experience a sense of alienation as they grappled with conflicting emotions regarding their moral principles. It is important to recognize that this win-win mentality perpetuates corruption within the university system, creating a reproductive cycle that continues into the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose - Today, due to the breadth, diversity and multiplicity of investment projects, decision makers and investors are faced with the issue of choosing the most profitable project. The economic rate of return (ERR) index is one of the proper indices that has been presented to determine the profitability of the projects. However, the ERR index has important shortcomings that have led to serious limitations in its use. In this regard, this paper introduces a new measure called the reliable economic rate of return (RERR), which has originated from ERR measure, but it has resolved the drawbacks of ERR index. On the other hand, this paper proposes a new solution by considering the values of the cash flow in terms of fuzzy numbers. After calculating the fuzzy economic rate of return, the profitability potentiality degree of the investment projects can be determined as well as their reliability based on the net present value (NPV) method. Design/methodology/approach - This paper proves that if we equate the initial cash flow of investment projects with the sum of the negative values of the relevant cash flow stream, then the RERR value would be greater than '-1'. In this regard, this paper proposes a solution to modify the initial and final values of the investment cash flow stream, merely without changing middle values. Thereby, the NPV of the modified cash flow does not change. On the other hand, it is sometimes difficult to estimate the values of cash flows as a crisp number, which may lead to a wrong decision in accepting or rejecting projects. For this purpose, this paper considers the values of cash flow stream as fuzzy numbers and describes a solution for calculating the fuzzy RERR using the α-cut method and the RERR index. The proposed solution is compatible with the NPV method and also has fewer calculations than the other methods. This paper also proposes a method that calculates the profitability potentiality degree of projects and provides more comprehensive information to the decision makers by examining the intervals obtained from cutting the fuzzy values of the projects and presenting a new and reliable solution. Findings - Using the @RISK software, it was found that the estimation of fuzzy return rate using RERR index and α-cut method is very close to the simulation result. It confirms the appropriate accuracy of the proposed solution. Also, the results obtained from the software in determining the profitability of projects indicated that the proposed solution is more accurate than the methods of 'comparison of the expected intervals' and 'strict exceedance possibility'. It is also fully compatible with the NPV method. Research limitations/implications - In this research the market rate is assumed constant, while, in practice it can vary over the periods. Defining the market rate as an inconstant parameter, using the robust optimization approach and investigating the subject of this paper under other uncertainty environments are future study suggestions to both researchers and practitioners. Practical implications - One of the most important applications of this study is in risky projects wherein estimating the values of cash flow stream as a crisp number is difficult. The results of this paper help decision makers in reducing risk and determining the project profitability. It is worth mentioning that the solution proposed in this paper can be used for all projects with any cash flow stream value. Social implications - Failure to make the correct decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the projects could have major negative consequences for the companies, organizations and even society. This paper helps decision makers, investors and organizations to determine the projects profitability that could benefit organizations and society. Originality/value - This paper proposes the RERR measure as a profitability index such with several favorable properties: (ⅰ) it exists and is unique, (ⅱ) it is NPV-consistent in accepting/rejecting decisions, (ⅲ) it provides values greater than '-1', (ⅳ) it takes into account all of the project's outflows which may be regarded by some practitioners as an appropriate indicator of the overall investment. Furthermore, this paper proposes an appropriate method for calculating the fuzzy RERR and a new method for determining the profitability potentiality degree of the investment projects based on the NPV method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the formation of Seljuks in the Levant, this region was subject to unrest, which continued the chaotic trend of the post-Hamdanid. What took place in the Levant in the Seljuk period was a series of replacing the governments by the soldiers of the same dynasty one after the other from 478 till 570 A. H. This research aimed to answer this question: What was the process of substituting governments in this period? To this goal, the reasons for the rise and fall of the Levant's governments and the records of substitute dynasties had to be analyzed. By using the quantitative historical method, the procedure of these substitutions was mapped. According to this study, the chronological process of substituting the governments had increased over time. The former disturbs were managed to be settled and the short-term rulers -inheritances of Arab tribes- to be altered by long dynasties, such as the Zengid and Ayyubid dynasties. Introduction Some of the Levant governments were overthrown by foreign powers and as usual, the stronger governments prevailed over weaker ones. In the time frame presented in this paper, several local governments fell in this manner, among which we could mention Banu Ammar in Tripoli. There was another form of overthrowing a government that arose from within and took over. Those who served the former government then became the ones possessing power, resulting in dynasties, such as Burid, Zangid Atabegs, and Ayyubid dynasties. Since this form of conquest was defined as an uprising in the political terms of that time and new dynasties needed continuous efforts to maintain power and assemble sufficient legitimacy for themselves, they went through the process of start-points and continuance. Though each new dynasty tried to have a starting point of its own, they had to use covers, such as gaining the Atabeg of a Seljuk prince or receiving a charter from the Abbasid Caliph. Thus, only the passage of time and their behaviors to preserve their land became a factor of legitimacy that they had to earn it after several internal revolts of the generals. In other words, after some time, the land became their ancestral property and the oppressing commanders needed time to construct their property. Materials and Methods The author first dealt with the contexts of the fall and succession of the cited governments in this period. Therefore, he used the contextual description method. Accordingly, the political and social contexts of the lands and those, who started the new governance, were examined. Because the substitutions happened from T1 till time T2 in the context of time, a chronologic method was applied to estimate the government changes. Finally, the chronological and historical methods joined a quantitative view. The time passage had to be taken seriously to evaluate the stability of the government during their ruling time. The quantitative method also took the internal courses of the governments into account. The author tried to find the substitution process year to evaluate the alternative trends and identify the quantitative strategy for these events. Discussion and Conclusions The substitution of the Levant dynasties at that time was affected by instability, insecurity, and the pressure of foreign governments, building the necessity of raising a new government within the former. Therefore, the people who supported the Turk or semi-Turk troops could start a new dynasty from the heart of the previous one. The survival of the new government and its resistance towards subsequent replacement largely depended on managing the crisis that happened to the Levant in their time. Hence, the Burid took over the Seljuks of Damascus, but they were able to withstand the substitution trend for a long time because of their adequacy to protect Damascus against Crusaders and expansionists. First, it was assumed that all substitutions of the Levant governments followed an integrated pattern, but the data of the quantitative hypotheses proved it wrong. Based on the years that a dynasty maintained power in the Levant, the substitution process had increased from the Seljuks to the Ayyubid dynasty. This indicated stability in the Levant since the time of the Hamdanid. When the Hamdanid dynasty ended, the Arab tribes took control of this region and handed over a turbulent region to the Seljuks. The conflict between the Seljuk rulers brought this earlier chaos to the period of Ridwan's successors. Therefore, since the arrival of the first Turkmen associated with a rough and chaotic period in the Levant, these government changes grew until the Ayyubid dynasty. Saladin and his brother managed to divide the Ayyubid dynasty into the Ayyubid of the Levant and Egypt. Still, the Ayyubid dynasty held power in the 7th century A.H. Due to the timeframe of this paper, the substitution of the Ayyubid was not looked into; however, their longterm stability and continuation could be generalized to the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire, which certainly requires another research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to propose a systematic view of how Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM) captures and evolves the state-of-the-art advances in this field. Multiple analyzes have been performed with two tools of VOSviewer and open-source R-package ‘bibliometrix”. Also, a network and bibliometric analysis of the Co-Occurrence, Co-Authorship, and Co-Citation has been made on CSCM using bibliometric and scientometrics methods on the literature available on the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Design/methodology/approach: Bibliometric, network structure, and descriptive analysis have been used to investigate publications on the subject of circular supply chain management. For this purpose, a systematic review has been performed using the Prisma review protocol. After defining the research objectives and questions, the relevant keywords for the sources and database and search codes have been used for an online search. Then, the initial search has been conducted. The next step involved screening the study results. 116 published articles have been selected from Scopus for analysis. The potential papers were then downloaded in CSV format for bibliometric analysis and synthesis. The final data for this research has been selected from 2010 to 2021. All the data was exported in CSV format to the Bibliometrix and Vosviewer software for data analysis. Also, Co-Authorship, word Co- Occurrence, and Co-Citation analysis have been generated using VOSviewer. Findings: This study analyzed the annual publication trends, the most productive authors, the most cited articles, the most productive affiliations, the most important journals, the most productive countries, and keywords. Collaboration, co-occurrence, co-authors, co-citation, and historiographical analysis were also performed in this study. Findings indicated that "Perona, M" and "Mina, H" with six and five articles were the most productive authors in the development of this field. Also, Geissdoerfer's article was the most cited article with 231 citations, and it can be considered a pioneering work in the field of CSCM development. Farooq's article was also the most cited local article. Govindan et al.'s (2020) article were the most important in co-citation analysis. Great Britain and Italy were the most productive countries with 70 and 66 publications. Cambridge University was the most productive university in England. The "Journal of Cleaner Production" and "Sustainability" were the most visited journal with 24 and 8 articles. The most dominant keywords were "circular economy" and "circular supply chain". The main keywords shared in the most advanced cluster were "circular economy", "circular supply chain", and "supply chain". The main common keywords in cluster 2 included "supply chain management" and "circular supply chain management", and the main common keywords in cluster 3 included "sustainability, and “closed loop supply chain". Also, major cooperated countries included Great Britain, Italy, and China. Strong cooperation between Iran and Denmark, China and Australia, and Britain, and India was also observed. A significant number of articles were written by Iranian researchers, and the number of citations received by foreign researchers was higher. The authorship of the articles included two, one, and three authors, respectively. The results indicated the existence of the development of CSCM with quantitative modeling approaches, proficient algorithms, optimization techniques, and integrated multi-criteria decision-making techniques. Also, CSCM research must identify enablers, drivers, Critical Success Factors (CSF), obstacles and barriers, innovative frameworks, and circular business models. Research limitations/implications: The papers were merely reviewed in the form of scientific and English language journal articles. Other datasets and conference papers, reports, and books can be considered for future study, but they were not included in the structural literature review. Practical implications: CSCM is rapidly developing in supply chain sustainability and can operate as a guide for companies. To apply CSCM, three questions need to be answered: i) which business/supply chain models should companies choose (closed loop or circular)?; ii) how does it cover supply chain operations to achieve a zero-waste perspective?; and iii) how does the company redesign its supply chain and implement a circular supply chain? Social implications: The application of the results of this study and circular supply chain indicators have positive effects on the sustainability and circular economy. Originality/value: This research is one of the early attempts to analyze the structure of social networks in CSCM using bibliometric and scientometric methods. In previous studies relevant to CSCM, mainly the structured literature review, content analysis, and integrated framework have been used, and few studies have addressed CSCM using bibliometric analysis. In this paper, the R-software was used for the first time as a tool for bibliometric data statistics (open-source R-package tool ‘Bibliometrix’ supplemented by VOS viewer, which is used for clustering and data visualization). Also, the results of the analysis of the two software were compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Cross-docking deals with the goals of lean supply chain management. It is a distribution strategy. In this structure, goods are shipped from inbound to outbound trailers on the same day or overnight without putting them into storage. Cross-docking can realize transport efficiencies at reduced material handling and storage costs by eliminating the storage and order-picking activities from the main warehouse operations. These advantages make cross-docking an interesting logistic strategy that can give companies considerable competitive advantages. This paper aims to introduce cross-docking, its characteristics and its problem types, comprehensively. The focus of this study is on distinguishing research gaps. Design/methodology/approach: Systematic review is "review research by explicit, rigorous and accountable methods". Reviews and their findings can vary on many aspects of the 'dimensions of different'. One such review is the 'review of reviews'. A systematic review of primary research is the second level of research analysis. A review of reviews (sometimes called 'overview' or 'umbrella' review) is a tertiary level of analysis. It is a systematic map and/or synthesis of previous reviews. The 'data' for such reviews of reviews are previous reviews rather than primary research studies. This can be an efficient method for examining previous research. In this paper, cross-docking literature systematic review (review of reviews method) has been discussed by introducing, clustering crossdocking decision problems, and drawing future research directions. Findings: Bibliography, cross-dockings, and classified characteristics of cross-docking based on the decision levels (strategic, tactical and operational levels) were the major findings of this study. Also, the cross-docking problem types were addressed and the gaps in the field of cross-docking were determined. This study highlighted two frequent gaps that would need to be filled by focusing on the research areas of taking deadlines for the trucks into account and dealing with uncertainty. Research limitations/implications: Book chapters and conference papers were excluded from this research. Reviewed papers were published in a certain period and the English language. Practical implications: Today firms use different types of distribution strategies. Cross-docking with eliminating the storage and order-picking activities from the main warehouse operations is an interesting logistics strategy. products with predictable, high cubic volume flow, and perishable products are ideal candidates for cross-docking. Cross-docking is nowadays used by many companies and industries such as the retail industry, automotive industry, telecommunications and electronics industries. Social implications: Cross-docking results in smaller volumes of more visible inventories that are delivered faster and more frequently. Several other advantages of cross-docking are addressed in the literature compared to traditional distribution centres. Some advantages are reduced cost (warehousing costs, inventory-holding costs, handling costs, labour costs), shorter delivery lead time (from supplier to customer), improved customer service, reduced storage space, faster inventory turnover, fewer overstocks, and reduced risk for loss and damage. Originality/value: Due to the advantages and extensive applications of cross-docking, in this paper a "review of reviews" was performed, and after introducing cross-docking terminals and their problem types, distinguish research gaps were determined for the future research study. Therefore, researchers were suggested to concentrate on the addressed gaps in their models to get closer to real-life constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the theory of absence in curriculum and to identify its concepts, philosophical foundations, aspects, and consequences in the field of curriculum practice. After introducing the theory of absence in curriculum, the typology of different concepts of this theory, their origin, and its application in the field of the curriculum have been explained. Then, the philosophical foundations and theoretical framework of the concept of the absent curriculum are analyzed. Further, by explaining the ontology of the curriculum based on critical realism in the ideas of Matthew Wilkinson, it has been argued that the monovalence ontology in the field of curriculum studies has led to the emergence of reductive policies in the development of curricula that its aspects can be seen in the absence of part of the cultural, social, ethnic and lingual heritage in the curriculum. Finally, by providing examples of absence in the curriculum, the shadow curriculum is analyzed as a consequence of the absent curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction Being engaged in multiple roles can affect a person's health and well-being and the middle-aged people are usually exposed to this situation more than other age groups. Most of the western studies that have looked at this issue with a demographic lens have introduced middle age as a situation of being caught or sandwiched between the needs of two generations (children and parents). On the other hand, increasing women's participation in paid work means that more middle-aged women are faced with a conflict between their work and family responsibilities, a phenomenon often characterized by the term "double burden" or "second shift" (Bratberg et al., 2002; Hochschild & Machung, 2012). According to the demographic changes of the family in recent years, living arrangements in mid-life have become more complex and heterogeneous (Demey et al., 2011) so that some researchers have used the term "cluttered nest" to describe this period of life, which is in contrast to the "empty nest" stage, that is, when all children leave the parental home (Lingren & Decker, 1992). The available data in Iran showed that the age transition of population has entered the middle-age phase since 2015 (the population aged 30-64) and will remain in this phase for several decades. It is predicted that the share of middle-aged people in Iran will reach more than 50% between 2026 and 2031 (Abassi Shavazi and Sadeghi, 2017: 46). This research aimed to expand the information about the role behaviors of this group by exploring the pattern of multiplicity of roles and its relationship with some of their social and demographic characteristics in the context of the urban society of Iran. The paper tried to answer the following questions: 1) What proportion of middle-aged women and men participate in multiple roles? 2) How does the pattern of mid-life multiple roles change based on people's socio-demographic characteristics? Materials & Methods Using the data from the latest Time Use Survey of Iran, this article examined the prevalence of occupancy and intensity of multiple roles, namely paid work, domestic work, and parenting, as well as the socio-demographic characteristics related to it. The statistical population of this survey included all people aged 15 and older living in urban households across the country and the data included all the daily activities of individuals, as well as demographic, economic and social variables, at the individual and household levels. The impacts of socio-demographic variables on people's intersectionality of roles were assessed using the Poisson regression in the STATA statistical package (version 17). The dependent variable was defined as the number of intense roles, which ranged from zero to three roles. The independent variables included gender, age group, marital status, education, and household size. Discussion of Results & Conclusion The findings showed that (1) multiple roles were more common in the middle age than in other age periods; (2) multiple roles were more prevalnent in men due to the low employment of women; (3) women were more involved in intense multiple roles than men and this pattern was due to the large amount of time that women spent on domestic activities. The results of Poisson regression analysis revealed that the household size reduced the number of intense roles for men and women. This situation indicated a wider division of labor in large households, which alleviated participation in intense multiple roles, especially for women. On the flip side of the coin, the findings showed that middle-aged people in smaller households faced more intense roles and therefore needed interventions to reduce this potentially traumatic experience. With increasing age, the number of women's intense roles increased. This is in line with the hypothesis of role density in late mid-life and near retirement age (Patterson & Margolis, 2019). Married women were more likely to be engaged in intense roles than their widowed or divorced counterparts and college education reduced the number of intense roles for men, but a similar effect was associated with a lower confidence interval for women. Thus, midlife could be a difficult time for married women, who had multiple responsibilities, while being a wife and a housewife. Meanwhile, their physical abilities decreased with age, making this period stressful and unfavorable. In fact, the important finding of this article was the noticeable difference in the pattern of experiencing intense roles between men and women, which showed that the tasks related to the domestic role alone put a heavy burden on the shoulders of middleaged women living in the urban areas of Iran so that its prevalence was more than 4 times that of the men's heavy occupational role. Our results highlighted the need for investigating the impact of multiple-role occupancy on the health and wellbeing of middle-aged people at the national level and designing evidence-based interventions to improve their conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In this paper, a new comprehensive model has been developed to guide organizations regarding the establishment of a productivity management system with all essential elements and relations. Using the knowledge available in the literature and expert views, this research has tried to propose an evaluation scheme to measure the maturity of the system in Iranian organizations. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is typically an applied-developmental research as it introduces a framework for the assessment of productivity management systems in Iranian companies (developmental) and also attempts to offer a method for solving or simplification the complex, chronic problem of productivity in Iranian businesses (applied). From another perspective, the current research should be regarded as a qualitative research approach that seeks to describe and explain the phenomenon of productivity management system maturity based on an analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data. The main strategy adopted in identifying conceptual elements concerning the productivity management system has been encoding. The primary signs of conceptual elements have been identified with a systematic search of databases containing scientific documents and reports on one hand and during interviews with experts on the other. The main concepts and categories about the topic have been extracted through a combination of homogeneous signs. Findings: Four categories were identified in the encoding process (labelled as four modules of the productivity management system) and 18 concepts underlying such categories were included within the four modules. Then, 76 signs were extracted from the analysis of documents and interviews as peripheral aspects or features expected from the corresponding elements. Accordingly, the first step in the establishment of a productivity management system in an organization was to provide the infrastructures required for the managerial subsystem. Next, the main processes of productivity needed to be activated based on the available or generated infrastructures. In the third step, the appropriate measures had to be taken to guarantee the sustainability of the subsystem and ensure its constant growth and development. Finally, the impacts of the establishment of the productivity management system were expected to be evaluated to indicate the extent to which the attempts made have helped to meet the various needs of different groups of extra-organizational beneficiaries (including environmental activists and local community members). Social implications: Constant enhancement of productivity as one of the most significant aims of any organization, requires the establishment of a series of factors and elements that make up an organization’s productivity biome, all the aspects and layers of which need to be shaped correctly. Such a requirement can be operationalized in an organization only through the establishment of a comprehensive productivity management system, a managerial system that has not been considered accurately and practically so far in the rich literature review concerning the subject of productivity. This study was conducted to eliminate this research and administrative gap and plotted the conceptual map of such a structure through the extraction of signs of the conceptual elements concerning the managerial system using scientific documents and interviews with experts. By developing organizations that perform their activities more productively, they are more successful in achieving their goals. Therefore, people will also benefit from the performance of this productive organization and will be more satisfied. Originality/value: This study has proposed a conceptual map for productivity management systems through the extraction of signs of the conceptual elements concerning the managerial system using scientific resources and interviews with experts. It has also proposed a comprehensive model showing how the productivity management system could be established in an Iranian organization using procedural documents such as the administrative guidance developed by the National Productivity Organization. The validity of the model (referred to as i-MAPS) was confirmed through the formulation and administration of the evaluation logic for the measurement of the maturity of the system and its pilot implementation in some private and public organizations in Yazd Province. The maturity of an organization in the establishment and utilization of the productivity management system can be analyzed using the developed model. Besides, the measures can be taken based on instructions extracted from the model contents to increase the organization’s success in the roadmap and to overcome probable challenges and obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plato’s doctrine of ideas can be considered his most important doctrine. Throughout the history of philosophy, each philosopher, according to the problem he faced, has returned to this doctrine. One of the problems that Western philosophers have faced in the contemporary world is the nihilism and meaninglessness of western civilization. Martin Heidegger considers the root of this meaninglessness to be oblivion of Being and oblivion of truth as unhiddenness and disconcealment. Heidegger believes that Plato’s doctrine of ideas is the cause of this oblivion, Plato made ideas the foundation of beings, and this has no meaning other than oblivion of Being. Using phenomenology, Heidegger returns to Plato’s allegory of the cave to elucidate the nature of this oblivion. Heidegger’s interpretation of ideas changes over time, because in his later thinking, Heidegger passes through the phenomenology of Dasein and pays attention to the openness of Being. Later Heidegger explains the idea and the eidos based on the openness of Being and considers the presence of the present dependent on this openness. In this paper, we will try to examine the relationship between early and later Heidegger's view on Plato’s ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1951), Wittgenstein left a collection of notes. Some of his students have published edited versions of these remaining notes under various titles. One of the latest of these collections came to the market in 1969 under the title of "On Certainty". In this book, Wittgenstein discusses the issue of certainty from an epistemological point of view. He rejects scepticism and argues that certainty belongs to the category of non-epistemological concepts. And he adds that certainty, though meaningless, nevertheless is necessary for the formation of knowledge. A group of commentators, including Rom Harre´ and Moyal-Sharrock, have referred to this new approach of Wittgenstein as the Third Wittgenstein. The purpose of the present paper is to critically examine the development of Wittgenstein's thought from Tractatus to On Certainty with respect to the notion of certainty to show that contrary to the claims of philosophers like Harre´and Moyal-Sharrock, the Wittgenstein of On Certainty is not a new Wittgenstein, and that the basis of his discussions concerning scepticism and certainty and their meaninglessness could be traced back to his views in Tractatus and Investigations, and in particular, his discussion of private language and its denial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the second half of the 20th century, after the decline of logical empiricism, metaphysics was revived as analytic metaphysics. However, during the last two decades, significant naturalistic objections have been raised to analytic metaphysics. In the first chapter of their seminal book, Every Thing Must Go, Ladyman, Ross, and Spurrett, after taking a destructive approach to contemporary analytic metaphysics, presented a positive plan for appropriate naturalized metaphysics. For them, naturalized metaphysics is an activity to unify, under some constraints, the sciences. Analytic metaphysics, on the other hand, had its serious defenders. One of the enthusiastic advocates of metaphysics, as an inquiry with an independent method and subject matter, is Jonathan Lowe (1950-2014). At the end of his working life, he published various works in which he argued for a remarkable conception of metaphysics, that is, metaphysics as the science of the possible. In this paper, we claim that Jonathan Lowe's views on metaphysics provide a compelling stance for addressing the radical naturalistic objections raised by Ladyman, Ross, and Spurrett, and so it provides a thoughtful defense of metaphysics against those worries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kripke in his famous book on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy argues, on behalf of Wittgenstein, that there can be no fact of the matter as to what a speaker means by her words, that is, no fact that can meet the Constitution Demand and the Normativity Demand. He particularly argues against the dispositional view, according to which meaning facts are constituted by facts about the speaker’s dispositions to respond in a certain way on certain occasions. He argues that facts about dispositions are finite and are incapable of constituting facts about what speakers mean by their words; they are also essentially descriptive, not prescriptive and, thus, cannot meet the Normativity Demand. Hannah Ginsborg has recently attempted to resist Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s arguments against dispositionalism by defending a new sort of reductive dispositionalism which can meet both demands at the same time. In this paper, I will argue that she would not be successful in her project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Perishable products suffer from spoilage and quality loss after a period, so their demand decreases. To raise the level of demand and reduce the cost due to product spoilage and increase in waste, a markdown policy is used. This paper aims to find the optimal amount of discount and the initial order amount so that the total profit is maximized. The discount is offered twice during the sales period; the first discount is provided before the onset of deterioration, when and attractiveness of the product for purchase decreases. The second one is given after the deterioration starts when product spoilage is visible. Design/methodology/approach: After an extensive literature review, the initial mathematical model has been shaped and solved using an analytical approach. Considering experts' opinions, the internal validity of the proposed model has been checked and confirmed. Also, the concavity conditions of the objective function and the existence of the global optimal point of the model have been investigated. Then, the values of parameters have been determined by experts and placed in the model. Finally, Ofoq Kourosh Chain Stores' original sales data have been collected as a case study and the model has been solved in MATLAB software. Findings: In this paper, the amount of the initial order was determined. Then, the optimal amount of the discount was obtained to reach the maximum profit. In this paper, the authors’ observation indicated that using the markdown pricing strategy is more profitable than the fixed pricing strategy during the sales period. This result is the most important finding of the paper, which can be calculated during the sales period examined in the Ofoq Kourosh Chain Stores. It can help decision makers of the discount chain store to set better strategies for their fresh and dairy products. Research limitations/implications: Choosing a demand function that takes into account all factors affecting demand; also, Considering the optimal discount times, corresponding to the optimal discount values as decision variables, complicates the model. It should be mentioned that due to limitations in the IT infrastructure of the case study and our boundaries to get information from these brick-andmortar chain stores, it is not possible to record data in short periods (hourly) and the warehouse inventory is only available daily. Practical implications: Since one of the main goals of the institution is to obtain maximum profit, by applying the markdown pricing strategy on perishable products, due to the quality of perishable goods being proportional to their price from the customer's point of view, it is possible to encourage them to buy the product and increase their demand. Besides, it can reduce waste which also leads to the maximization of profit. It should be noted that with the implementation of the proposed model in Ofoq Kourosh Chain Stores, it is practically shown that its implementation can make an important contribution to increasing profits. Social implications: The results of this research can be used to improve the sales of perishable products, seasonal products, and fashion goods and can increase the profitability of products and reduce waste. This is also possible for consumers to have access to fresh or seasonal products at various and lower prices with different income levels. Such changes can lead to greater equality in society. Originality/value: The literature review shows that the inventory control models have discussed more optimal order amount and time and less about pricing strategies and price discounts, simultaneously. The subject that is less considered in the literature, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the determination of discount values to maximize profit, which was considered in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the “No Miracle argument” (NM), the predictive and explanatory success of science would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain unless mature scientific theories were approximately true, and the theoretical entities postulated by them exist. On the contrary, in his version of “the Pessimistic Meta-Induction argument” (PMI), Laudan, by providing a list of past successful and yet false theories, rejects any relationship between success of a theory and its truth. In response to Laudan, based on the referential approach, realists have tried to show that the central terms of many past successful theories refer after all, and their postulated entities do exist. Moreover, theses terms and their referents have been preserved in the successive theories. In this paper, first, NM and PMI will be explained. Then, the most important realists’ solutions to PMI in the referential approach will be evaluated critically. It will be shown that none of these solutions can rebut PMI conclusively. In the final part of the paper, however, it will be explained briefly that even if realists could not rebut the PMI challenge, the advantage of the referential approach is that still allows them to save a weak version of scientific realism, entitled “existential realism”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interpreting trends in the Sassanid state, the practices of which have been the basis for subsequent Iranian states, can deepen the knowledge of Iran's history. Various interpretations have been presented for its rise, the great kings, the Mazdakian movement, and its fall. This paper supposed that using a theoretical framework for interpreting all the events could provide a more comprehensive and integrated interpretation. Since the developers of the conceptual framework of the "natural state" have considered it a framework for interpreting the written history of humans, the main question of the current research was whether this conceptual framework could provide a satisfactory interpretation of trends in the Sassanid state. Therefore, this study was based on an analytical-descriptive method and a library approach. In the viewpoint of "natural state", a state incorporates a coalition of elites, who exercise their control over the society's political, military, economic, religious, and administrative activities to provide them the highest rent. Therefore, the state's changes are those occurring to the coalition members, who may be important due to changes in the situation. In this article, the satisfactory ability of this framework to interpret important events in the Sassanid state, regarding the roles of the coalition members in the production of rents and acts of violence, was shown in a 5-period classification, the characteristics of each of which were then presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to propose an approach for identifying and prioritizing ecosystem indicators for effective ecosystem management. Specifically, fuzzy Delphi and fuzzy DEMATEL approaches are used to define ecosystem management goals and indicators, rank the importance of quality attributes in ecosystem management, and rank the effectiveness of each indicator in each pillar of ecosystem management. The ultimate goal is to provide a tool to decision-makers that can help in allocating resources more effectively and efficiently toward achieving sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed approach involves a three-phase framework. Phase 1 involves identifying and determining the indicators affecting ecosystem management. This has been performed by studying theoretical articles, reviewing systematic literature, and searching previous studies to identify different indicators for each pillar of ecosystem management. A list of indicators and factors affecting each of the pillars of ecosystem management has been determined accordingly, and an initial categorization has been created using library studies. Phase 2 involves using a fuzzy Delphi method to rank the most important indicators in each pillar of ecosystem management. Experts have been asked to indicate their proposed indicators in a questionnaire based on fuzzy variables, and the degree of proportionality of the proposed factors. Phase 3 involves using a fuzzy DEMATEL approach to rank the effectiveness of each indicator in each pillar of ecosystem management. This approach handles imprecise or subjective data and can be replicated for different cities. Overall, this methodology aims to provide a comprehensive approach for identifying and prioritizing ecosystem indicators that can be used by decision-makers in environmental management and policy-making. Findings: Findings imply that the integrated approach of the Fuzzy Delphi Method and the Fuzzy DEMATEL can be used to identify and rank the importance of quality attributes in ecosystem management, and to rank the effectiveness of each indicator in each pillar of the ecosystem management. A total of 36 indicators were identified across four pillars of ecosystem management, i.e., economic, social, environmental and institutional. The results indicated that the most important indicators for each pillar were science and technology and innovation for the economic pillar; air quality, waste treatment and energy efficiency for the environmental pillar; poverty, health, and safety and security for the social pillar; and transparent sharing of information and political stability for institutional pillar. It was also found that there was a strong interrelationship between different pillars of ecosystem management. For example, the institutional pillar had serious effects on most of the other identified EM pillars. In addition, the economic pillar was the second most influential factor. Moreover, the institutional pillar profoundly influenced the environmental pillar. Finally, the economic pillar highly affected the environmental pillar, which doubled the complexity of ecosystem management. Research limitations/implications: Several limitations and implications have been addressed for future research. The number of participating experts was limited, which could affect the results and limit the possibility of their summarization. Expert bias may have influenced the results of the study. Such limitations imply that further research with a larger and more diverse group of experts is necessary to validate and expand upon such findings. This study was limited in scope to a particular ecosystem or region and the identified indicators as a result may not apply and be generalizable to other ecosystems or regions. Based on the cause-and-effect relationships between the studied elements, a hypothesis can be expanded and validated using a larger sample. Future studies could replicate this methodology in different contexts to test its applicability and effectiveness. Practical implications: Decision-makers in environmental management and policy-making can use the methodology presented in this study to identify and prioritize ecosystem indicators. By using an integration of the Fuzzy Delphi Method and the Fuzzy DEMATEL, decision-makers can identify the most important indicators for each pillar of ecosystem management and evaluate their effectiveness. This information can be used to allocate resources more effectively and efficiently toward achieving sustainability. Decision-makers could use this methodology to evaluate different ecosystem management practices and policies, and develop new policies or modify existing ones to better address the needs of different stakeholders. Overall, this study provides a useful tool for decision-makers in environmental management and policy-making by providing a comprehensive approach to identifying and prioritising ecosystem indicators. Social implications: This study highlights the importance of considering social factors in ecosystem management. The study identifies several social indicators, such as poverty and material deprivation, education level, public awareness and training, gender equality, and social participation. By prioritizing such indicators in ecosystem management, decision-makers can ensure that the needs and perspectives of different stakeholders are taken into account. This can help to promote social equity and cohesion, which are important for achieving sustainable development. Furthermore, by involving a wide range of stakeholders in the decision-making process, including local communities and marginalized groups, decision-makers can ensure that ecosystem management policies are more inclusive and responsive to the needs of all members of society. Overall, this study highlighted the importance of considering social factors in ecosystem management and provides a useful framework for identifying and prioritizing social indicators. Originality/value: The main contribution of this study is the application of the integrated approaches of the Fuzzy Delphi Method and the Fuzzy DEMATEL to identify and rank the importance of quality attributes in ecosystem management. This methodology is innovative because it allows decision-makers to handle imprecise or subjective data, which is often encountered in ecosystem management. The study provides a three-phase framework for identifying and prioritizing ecosystem indicators, which can be replicated for different cities. Findings indicated that science and technology, air quality, poverty, and transparent sharing of information were identified as the most important quality indicators in their respective pillars of ecosystem management alternatives. This implies that decision-makers and policymakers should consider allocating more resources toward improving such areas. Overall, this study provided a useful tool for decision-makers in environmental management and policy-making by providing a comprehensive approach to identifying and prioritizing ecosystem indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In the past two years, with the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic phenomenon, widespread disruptions appeared in supply chains. Due to the importance of this phenomenon for supply chain warping, much research was conducted in this field and this study aims to expand its literature. Design/methodology/approach: 57 articles have been reviewed in the literature on supply chain resilience after COVID-19 between 2020 and 2022. In this study, Microsoft Excel and VOS viewer software have been used. Findings: After reviewing the literature, the articles have been classified based on three categories including research context, research area and research method and it was found that in the research context, articles with topics about the importance of resilience had the highest share. In the research area, most of the articles were related to the industry sector and among the industries; the highest amount was related to the food industry and in the research method section, empirical studies accounted for most of the articles. Covid-19 was the most widely used keyword in the field. Also, it was found that in 2021 the number of published articles increased, considerably. Research limitations/implications: Based on the analysis of the studied papers, this study created a conceptual framework of supply chain resilience and it presented potential pathways for future research focused on the concepts defined in the existing literature. Practical implications: The literature related to supply chain resilience after covid-19 was widely reviewed and classified based on methodology, content and research area. All 57 selected articles were carefully examined and analyzed in terms of research content, author, approaches, methods, etc. Using Microsoft Excel software, the graphs of this research were drawn and also VOSviewer software was used to identify frequently used keywords and to develop a joint bibliographic network of leading researchers. Social implications: Using the results of this research and explaining the gaps in existing studies can help organizations improve the resilience of the supply chain in dealing with pandemics such as Covid-19. Originality/value: With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, medical service centres were under severe pressure. In this situation, it is important to evaluate the resilience of the equipment of medical service centres to deal with the problem. This article reviews the models and methods of assessing the resilience of the supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction Hercynite-rich spinel is a typical mineral of both quartz-bearing and quartz-free metapelitic rocks that form under low-pressure hightemperature conditions in the granulite facies (Sengupta et al., 1991) or upper-amphibolite facies of regional and contact metamorphism (Pattison and Tracy, 1991). Temperature-pressure estimation of metamorphic terrains is necessary to understand how large-scale crust evolution has occurred. High-temperature phase equilibrium cannot be properly evaluated solely based on normal cationic couple geothermobarometers, as ferromagnesian cationic exchange undergoes processes related to retrogression during cooling after peak metamorphism. Instead, key mineral parageneses are preserved and standard petrogenetic grids study based on reaction textures and mineral chemistry can be very helpful in better estimating temperature pressure. Regional Geology Dorbeh's contact aureole is formed in West Azerbaijan province, south of Urmia, north of Oshnavieh, and the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone around Dorbeh diorite. The intrusion is one of the components of the Urmia Plutonic Complex (UPC) which is spread along with granites and alkali syenites/granites at the northwest end of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone in the south of Urmia. This diorite intruded sedimentary units of shale and carbonate belonging to Permian to Triassic-Jurassic including the Doroud and Ruteh Formations and have metamorphosed them in contact aureole, causing hornfels and calc-silicate to sometimes scarn deposits in the area (Modjarrad and Mohamed, 2015). This intrusion is covered by Miocene units (Ghalamghash, 2009). The observed parageneses in Dorbeh aureole including Cld + Chl, Ctd + And, Alm + Cld, And+Alm, Hc+Alm, Chl + Hc + And + Sil, Alm + And + Sil, Alm + And + Sil + Hc. The peak metamorphism assemblage is Alm + And + Sil + Hc. The reactions responsible for the parageneses productions were introduced in the previous studies (Modjarrad and Mohamed, 2015). Materials and Methods 50 microscopic thin sections were prepared and petrographically examined. A reagent sample with the highest number of parageneses and experienced peak metamorphism was analyzed by JEOL JXA8200 microprobes electron device for garnet, chlorite, chloritoid, spinel, iron oxide, aluminosilicate, and apatite at the University of Potsdam, Germany. For whole rock chemistry, several metapelite samples were analyzed by XRF at the ALS-Chemex Laboratory of Canada. Discussion and Conclusions The main purpose of the present paper is to investigate the parageneses, the mineral chemistry, and the temperature-pressure estimation in the metamorphic contact aureole around Dorbeh intrusive. This intrusion consists of amphibole, plagioclase, and clinopyroxene, is a part of the Urmia Intrusive Complex (UPC), and with dioritic composition was intruded the Upper Cretaceous into the Paleozoic pelitic and limestone sedimentary rocks and metamorphosed them. The metapelite section of the aureole has exhibited interesting parageneses due to the exceptional iron-rich composition of the protolith. The hornfels part of the Dorbeh aureole is dominated by chlorite + chloritoid + garnet + aluminosilicates + spinel + opaque minerals and less quartz in the matrix. Mineral chemistry studies showed that Fe-chlorite between Repidolite to Bronswigite, Fe-chloritoid, Almandine garnet, Hercynitic spinel, and ilmenite are the minerals composition which is in agreement with the Fe-rich content of the parent rock. There was no specific zoning pattern in the metapelites garnet grains. It was also found that there is a reverse relationship between Si content and iron, magnesium, titanium, and chromium in chlorite and aluminosilicate structures. The metamorphic conditions for Dorbeh aureole by the multiequilibria method by THERMOCALC software have been estimated at 570±7°C, at a pressure of 2.8±0.2 kbar. Detailed investigation of phase relationships of metamorphic rocks can be considered a desirable method along with quantitative data-based methods to evaluate the occurrence of progressive metamorphism. This method is based on direct observation of reaction textures and is more objective in estimating metamorphic conditions by the method of the intersection of equilibrium reactions. Most of the time, secondary cationic exchanges penetrate from the mineral boundary to a considerable stratum and question the accuracy of the temperature and pressure calculated on the cationic couple's geothermometers to a large extent. The contact aureole with higher than normal temperatures specific to the margins of dry mafic intrusives is sometimes associated with the formation of special parageneses such as Grt+Sil+And+Hc. This paragenesis has also been reported from high-temperature (granolithic) regional metamorphic terrains, but its production conditions are more limited in contact aureoles and require a high molar fraction of iron/aluminum or mass dryness and/or aureole. Therefore, the composition of all ferromagnesian minerals is very close to the final iron end member and no specific temperature fluctuation in the aureole is understood from the garnet zoning pattern. Although staurolite has not been seen in the studied sections, the evidence suggests that hercynite in the area was caused by staurolite breakdown. With precision in the composition of analyzed chlorites, it was found that there is a direct relationship between Si and alkaline content in chlorite structure, but titanoferromagnesian content is in contrast with Si content. An almost similar relationship was observed in the aluminosilicate crystals. The inverse relationship between silica and Fe, Ti, and Cr oxides prevails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ever-increasing of renewable distributed generation sources in distribution networks, as well as increasing network size, have faced agent-based protection schemes with a heavy communicational load. Accordingly, despite the fast and reliable nature of multi-agent systems, they have the possibility of improper performance, especially in centralized protection systems. This paper presents an intelligent self-healing method that has the ability to replace common multi-agent systems during fault conditions. Therefore, protection tasks are performed in a single control level, without dependence on higher communicational levels, to clear the fault. Decentralized operation of this structure is provided by using intelligent electronic devices and distributed communications. In this way, the proposed scheme is described with high-speed peer-to-peer communication capability using the IEC-61850 GOOSE protocol. Then, a penetration-free algorithm, without the help of a central controller, is provided by using GOOSE message capabilities, to prevent any electricity interruption due to insufficient protection settings. Finally, by planning different scenarios and simulating a practical distribution network via ETAP software, the accuracy of the proposed algorithm has been proven. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, using telecommunication systems and advanced measuring devices underlies cyberattacks on electrical grids. Bad data injection and failure to detect it on time, cause drastic damage to the network. This paper presents a new method for bad data detection (BDD) in state estimating when a cyber attacker manipulates the important measurements. Therefore, the new attack index is defined by simultaneously manipulating the network parameters and injecting incorrect data into the measured values. For this purpose, considering the masking and swamping effect, the diagnostic robust generalized potential (DRGP) algorithm detected and isolated high-leverage measurements installed in important locations from low-leverage measurements. Then, the state estimation process performs using low-leverage measurements. The Generalized Studentized Residual (GSR) algorithm detects bad data. With simultaneous manipulation of network parameters and measurement values, conventional BDD methods are unable to detect an attack. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, they were implemented on the IEEE standard 14-bus network using MATLAB and Rstudio software. The simulation results show the ability of the proposed algorithm to detect a bad data attack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subway stations are one of the most popular public spaces in the Iranian big cities, which is accompanied by urban design low qualities. The urban design of knowledge, art, and profession is the organization of the environmental qualities of the urban and public domain of the subject. Considering low qualities in these modern spaces that are used by everyday people, the most important issue of the present research is constructed without reference to indigenous fields. Emphasis on indigenous patterns, in the construction of underground spaces, especially subway stations, can lead to the sustainability and desirability of these spaces. The development of urban-rural spaces can play an important role in the sustainability of contemporary large and populated cities. Construction and construction of these spaces is a new phenomenon in Iran that can weaken or strengthen the natural, human, social, cultural, and economic characteristics of cities such as Tehran. In this paper, the purpose of this paper is to explain the status of the design of urban design in metro station spaces, with emphasis on indigenous patterns. The present study is conducted using the descriptive-analytical methodology and studies between the three areas of urban design and related qualities; subsurface development and metro station spaces; native architectural and urban design patterns. Therefore, after the design of the problem and terminology, the study of definitions and urban design qualities from the point of view of the experts and the addition and extraction of comprehensive urban design qualities was done with the article approach. Subsequently, in order to study Imam Khomeini, Seventh, and Revolution Square subway stations, they were studied and analyzed. The results of the study indicate that the planning and design of metro station spaces should pay attention to the comprehensive design quality of the city. These qualities include identity recognition, environmental sustainability, socioeconomic and economic sustainability, safety and security, efficiency and diversity, accessibility and accessibility, continuity and integrity, proportions and human scale, freedom, flexibility, Vitality, intuition and sensual richness, justice. The analysis of case examples, both in terms of both generic and indigenous patterns, has a low status and poor quality of urban design and indigenous patterns. In general, paying attention to the design qualities of a design based on native patterns can enhance their sustainability, utility, and humanity. Introduction Urban design is a science, art, and profession dealing with organizing the environmental qualities of urban and public areas. Paying attention to the vacuum of urban design qualities in these modern spaces that are used daily by people is the most important issue of the present study, which has been constructed without any connection with local contexts. By presenting this issue, the purpose of this study is to explain the position of urban design qualities in metro station spaces with an emphasis on local patterns. In the process of urban development, all aspects of environmental quality must be considered. In other words, strengthening or meeting one or more (private and public) needs and environmental quality should not lead to the weakening or loss of other environmental qualities. This is an issue common in contemporary projects. One-dimensional views of urban projects, such as a purely economic or traffic approach, will neglect the underlying features, undermine identity, and move in the opposite direction of sustainable development. The theme of this research is that, on the one hand, the development of urban infrastructures such as metro stations, especially in large cities and their centers, is a matter of certainty and these infrastructures in the dimensions of transportation, space, play an important role in the life of urban centers. But on the other hand, the construction of these spaces is often devoid of environmental qualities and less attention is paid to local patterns. The research hypothesis is that by accompanying and using local models in the planning and development of subsurface spaces, both goals can be achieved, namely the development of urban infrastructure, strengthening urban identity, and improving environmental qualities. Therefore, this study seeks solutions to use local patterns in the development of subsurface spaces and subway stations. Research Methods This study aims to analyze the position of urban design qualities in the design of metro stations. The study is conducted using a combined research approach (i.e. quantitative and qualitative methods). In this regard, the most important research question is: What is the position of urban design qualities in the design of metro stations? Also, the research sub-questions are: What are the qualities of urban design effective in the design of metro stations? What are the ways to apply these qualities with emphasis on indigenous patterns in subway stations? In this research, while analyzing the features and qualities of native patterns, the application of these patterns, related features, and qualities in the planning and design of contemporary underground spaces in our country are discussed and solutions and suggestions are presented. Therefore, while defining these concepts from the theorists’ point of view, we summarize and conclude these definitions, and then search for native patterns of architecture and urban planning for use in the planning and design of metro stations. Research Findings The results of the study show that in planning and designing metro station spaces, comprehensive qualities of urban design should be considered. These qualities include identity, legibility, environmental sustainability, social, cultural and economic sustainability, safety and security, efficiency and diversity, pedestrianism and ease of access, cohesion and integration, human proportions and scale, freedom, flexibility, vitality, attractiveness and sensory richness, and justice. The analysis of case studies, both in terms of general qualities and indigenous patterns, indicates the low and weak position of urban design qualities and indigenous patterns. In general, paying attention to urban-design qualities with a focus on indigenous patterns can promote their sustainability, desirability, and humanity. Emphasis on indigenous patterns in the construction of underground spaces, especially subway stations, can lead to the stability and desirability of these spaces. The development of suburban urban spaces can play an important role in the sustainability of large and densely populated contemporary cities. The construction of these spaces is a new phenomenon in Iran that can weaken or strengthen the natural, human, social, cultural, and economic characteristics of cities like Tehran. From all these issues, it can be concluded that the role of subsurface spaces, including metro stations, in the sustainable development of cities, should be taken seriously and the comprehensive realization of environmental qualities should be considered by avoiding one-dimensional approaches in planning and designing these spaces. It can also be said that traditional Iranian indigenous buildings and collections such as Gudal Baghcheh, Shovadan, Cistern, the historical bazaar have valuable structural features (in terms of the form and function on architectural and urban scales) and can be a local model for the development of metro station spaces. Given that our country is on the verge of developing such spaces, paying attention to these points can play an important role in stabilizing cities and strengthening urban identity, and improving environmental qualities. These templates and design guides can be used in the planning and design of metro station complexes. Since the metro network is one of the most widely used underground spaces in large cities, the subsurface development in relation to metro stations and using the native patterns studied in this research can be useful and effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a control method based on model predictive control (MPC) to control the buck-type dynamic capacitor (DCAP) to improve power quality. In this method, the reference current consists of two distinct parts, i.e., reactive power compensator (RPC), and hai'monic current eliminator (HCE) and based on the load current and dynamically, it adapts itself to load changes. The proposed prediction model (PM) was extracted from the linearized differential equations of the DCAP. In the proposed method, vector decision variables in each cycle converter switching are updated only once during the prediction horizon, and the optimization problem related to predictive control is solved based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. This reduces the volume of calculations significantly. By considering the total harmonic distribution (THD) value and the power factor (PF) value, the prediction horizon is proposed. The proposed method, unlike the EHM method, has fewer control parameters and can be implemented more easily. The simulation results in MATLAB software showed the superiority of the proposed method in comparison with the EHM method on a single phase DCAP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The stochastic neuron has great importance in neural networks and is one of the most important subjects in machine learning algorithms. Hardware implementation of neural networks has always been of interest to researchers and can significantly increase the performance and applications of neural networks. Hence hardware implementation of the stochastic neuron is also important. In this paper, utilizing stochastic behavior of MTJs in subcritical current regime a hardware model for stochastic neurons is proposed. Using HSpice tool, the proposed model was simulated and simulation results show that the proposed model functionality is similar to the mathematical description of the stochastic neuron and the error of this model is always less than 4.8٥/٠ compared to the mathematical description of the stochastic neuron. Also using corner simulation, it was shown that this model performs properly even in the presence of process variation and its error rate is less than 15.46٥/o and 17.43٥/٠ compared to the mathematical model and ideal simulation, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Complementarity is the central component of the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which Niels Bohr first presented at the Como and Solvay Conferences in 1927. The content of Bohr's speech was published in an article entitled "the quantum postulate and recent development of Atomic Theory" in 1928. The purpose of this study is to formulate Bohr's philosophical approaches by content analysis of his paper (1928) related to complementarity. The research method is based on the conceptual analysis of the content and text of this paper (1928) from which conceptual inferences can be deduced, and based on them, philosophical approaches are tried to be formulated. Finally, the four philosophical approaches including Unificationism, empiricism (positivistic and metaphysical), anticausality and indeterministic, as well as anti-realism can be formulated. In addition, for more accurate inferences, we need to refer to the following works of Bohr, or in other words, "Bohr from Bohr's point of view". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Qajar period, with the tendency of people and artists towards mystical literature, painters, by influencing this space and using symbols (elements of nature), created pure images of these themes. Rumi, in conveying his transcendental and mystical thoughts by using the symbolic elements of nature, considers the bird as a symbol of the human’s soul (lover), the flower as a symbol of heaven and God (beloved), and the garden as the sheltering world of the soul to achieve unity. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the semantic relationship between the elements of nature in the flower and bird paintings of the Qajar period with the mystical images created by these elements in the thought and poetry of Rumi. The main question of the research is: What is the semantic relationship between the flower and the bird’s paintings in the Qajar period and Rumi’s mysticism? This research is descriptive-analytical and has been done based on the flower and bird works of the Qajar period and a comparative study with Rumi's mystical poems. Therefore, as Rumi looks at the symbol of the bird from the perspective of the manifestation of the soul and lover and considers the symbol of the rose as an allegory of the manifestation of love, lasting paradise, and the manifestation of God, also, in the Qajar period, the elements of Iranian paintings (the flower and the bird) symbolically and full of secrets and the presence of meaning are depicted with the same concepts that are mentioned in Rumi's mystical poems. 1. Introduction The romantic relationship between the flower and the bird in these paintings is a mystic symbol of the relationship between humans and God, which is also manifested in the mystic thought and literature of Persian poetry and prose and is a symbol of the mystic’s love for the divine essence. The bird has appeared in the form of a nightingale that found his lost peace again in the arms of his beloved flower (God). The flower bush in the painting of flower and bird is a symbol of scenic trees, and aromatic and mesmerizing flowers of paradise, where birds (a symbol of believers) have reached peace among its branches and have enjoyed the infinite blessings of God. Rumi expresses his heavenly thoughts, moods, and inner experiences using elements of nature such as different kinds of flowers and birds in terms of symbols to create vivid, dynamic, and artistic images in the reader’s mind. Considering that many images of flowers and birds of the Qajar era are rooted in literary concepts and semantic symbols, painters have aesthetically embodied these two symbols in pictures full of code and meaning. The present research aims to analyze the semantic relationship of the elements of nature in the painting of flowers and birds of the Qajar era with mystical images created from these elements in the thought and poetry of Rumi. The main question of this paper is: “what semantic relationship can be found between the works of flowers and birds of the Qajar era and Rumi’s mysticism?”. According to the literature on the theme of the flower and bird, so far, the theme of the symbol in the paintings of the flower and bird of the Qajar period mixed with mystical literature has not been studied so that their semantic relationship can be discovered and expressed aesthetically. 2. Review of the Literature 2.1 The Symbolic Relationship of Iranian Flower and Bird Painting with Mystical Literature (Rumi) Bird features have a long history in Iranian art. In the ritual culture of Islam, birds that speak in human language have brilliant effects (Shahdadi, 2005, p. 78). The image of a flower and bird is first shown as the tree of life and bird in the paintings. The tree of life in the written texts and pictures of the Sassanid era in different forms of a bush or tree, from three thousand years BC to the first manifestations of birds in the bibliography of Iranian art, is called the Baghdad school, which found more natural manifestations in the paintings of the 8th century AH and continued until the periods of Tabriz schools in Shiraz, Herat, and Bukhara. In the Isfahan school, birds that play a role in poems with story elements are shown as symbols of the human spirit (Machiani, 2002, pp. 18-24). An Iranian artist portrays the truth of the holy world with a mysterious expression using symbols such as flowers and birds to convey mystical concepts and meanings. His soul flies to the truth in the form of a bird and sits beside a beautiful flower that symbolizes the beauty of paradise. There, he engages in worship by singing. The Iranian flower and bird painting, in one aspect of its symbolism, is indicative of the poetic concept of a romantic relationship between the nightingale and the flower, in which the description and the story of separation and reunion, love, demands, and romantic lamentations of the nightingale, and on the other hand, depicts the coquetry, disdain, and the romantic charms of the flower. According to Rumi, a flower has received help from a friend’s flower garden; therefore, it is indestructible and has grace, perfection, and good qualities (Hosseinpour Chafi, 2006, p. 165). In Rumi’s opinion, all these descriptions are a symbol of a perfect human being who has reached the flower garden of the unseen world, so we can embrace him and reach the flower garden of truths: Taking the skirt of the flower and accompanying the flower, dancing together, we will reach the root and seedling of the flower (Abbasi, 1991). In Divan Shams Tabrizi, the bird is a symbol of the soul or spirit, a mystic, and a seeker (Akhtaryar, 2013, p. 146). Some of Rumi’s interpretations of the symbol of the bird in his poems are related to concepts such as 1) the human soul and spirit, 2) the soul of a bird, 3) a mystic and a seeker, 4) perfect humans and inferior humans, 5) claimants of truth, and 6) a sign of human inner qualities. The illustrated states in Gol-o Morgh’s [flower and bird] painting of the Qajar period and their symbolic relation with the mystical poems of Rumi are as follows: 1. The Birds sitting on the flower branch; Painters of the Qajar period always illustrated the birds on the flower stem sitting, motionless, and watching the rose. 2. While singing (seeking love, praise, moaning and wailing, separation from beloved) The nightingale continuously sings and tries to raise pity and attract the attention of the beloved to reach and be unified with it. 3. While sleeping (mushahede [intuition]) The sleeping birds in Gol-o Morgh’s [flower and bird] painting indicate being in meditating [observation], leaving the material world, perceiving the divine mysteries, and in inner (moshahede [intuition]) and khamushi [silence]. 4. While hunting insects and butterflies It usually considers young disciples who have no mukashefe [intuition] and their ears are often busy with worldly speech and their intelligence and senses do not pay attention to the flower. 5. the bird on the rose branch; In the works of the Qajar period, the rose is usually used to indicate the main position of Morgh [bird]. 6. The branch of the Iris flower; As the main flower, the iris is always placed at the center of the image from the point of growth up to the peak of Gol-o Morgh’s [flower and bird] painting, just like the tree of life which was very important and the rose is illustrated on a lower level than branch iris. In combination with other elements, the iris is the largest flower and is often illustrated with darker colors in order to be highlighted compared with other flowers. 7. The importance of Gol than Morgh [bird]; The flowers are illustrated larger at the top of the miniature with enchanting and attractive colors, while the bird (as the lover and embodiment of need) is illustrated with neutral colors (with the color of the human skin because it is the symbol of the human soul) at the bottom of the miniature smaller than normal and facing the flower. 8. Variety and number of flowers and birds in composition The composition of illustration components is more active in Gol-o Morgh’s [flower and bird] painting of the Qajar period compared with previous periods. It is as if the miniaturist has depicted a piece of paradise or a large garden with more variety and more flowers and different types of birds. 3. Methodology This research has been done by the descriptive-analytical method and has qualitatively examined the data obtained from the samples of the flower and the bird of the Qajar period based on a comparative study with the mystical poems of Rumi. 4. Results The painting of a flower and bird is a poem of flowers. According to painters, the bird is a symbol of the human spirit. This world is an indicator of his cage and all his efforts to reach the heavenly world. The red flower is a symbol of the beloved, the essence of omnipotence, the allegory of heaven, and the perfect human being. In Persian poems, the flower is a symbol of affection and the nightingale is a symbol of demand, which is in search of the beloved and an eternal flower. In the paintings of Islamic art, there is a close relationship between images and mystical poetry. During the Qajar era, with the spread of mystical stories and texts (such as the story of Sheikh Sanan written by Attar and Masnavi by Maulavi) and the tendency of people and artists toward these themes, the painters of flowers and birds emerged from the world of imagination and allegory of the mystical poet to discover these meanings and concepts. Influenced by this atmosphere, they created pure images. As a result, paintings full of meaning and mystery are observable on many everyday items such as pencil cases, mirror frames, covers of religious texts (Quran and prayer books), dishes, walls, and ceilings of buildings. In Rumi’s poetry, the garden of life joins the garden of nature and the images of this world are interpreted as the spiritual world. What he means by the garden is the caged soul, and the garden of this world is a ray of the garden of the heavenly and imaginal world. One of the most important symbolic meanings of the bird is the soul or spirit, which means that the soul is constantly trying to fly to the world of the heavens (the original home). This bird in love sings in the dream of gaining the love of the flower, so the red flower will appear and lead his soul to the world of meaning. In his opinion, a flower is the love symbol of the world (God) that guides man (bird, soul) to the essence of his existence. He believes that every part of nature is a manifestation of God’s presence and considers art to be an imitation of the imaginal world and the reminder of memories of heaven. Thus, the hypothesis stated at the beginning of the paper is acceptable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, using a deep learning technique, the sensing characteristic of a refractive index (RI) sensor based on a multimode optical fiber speckle-gram has been extracted. The investigated sensor structure consists of a tapered optical fiber or microfiber (MF) induced on a standard multimode optical fiber (MMF). Due to the presence of evanescent waves around the MF, the guiding status of the end MMF is dependent on the external RI around the taper. Thereby, the propagating modes and resulting interference pattern or speckle-gram become sensitive to the changes in the taper environment. Herein, by analyzing and quantifying the speckle-gram modulation, the RI changes around the taper are characterized. To extract the sensing characteristic and improve its measurement accuracy, deep learning algorithms and specifically the ResNet deep neural network are used in the processing of the output speckle-grams. Using this algorithm, while the tapered fiber is immersed in different refractive index solutions in the range of 1.33 to 1.368, a set of output speckle images is captured for learning and then a number of them are used for measurement, and finally the accuracy of detecting the refractive index of the solutions RI has been achieved up to 95%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Meaning therapy is a method that helps a person find meaning in his life behind difficulties and problems and answer to his fundamental questions. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the principles of semantic therapy can be found in Farabi's philosophical and political theories that are compatible with the views of Victor Frankl, the founder of the semantic therapy school, and these principles can be explained based his thought. Examining Farabi's system of thought in a descriptive, comparative, and inferential way, we find that he is not only a philosopher and political thinker but also a doctor who, by identifying the suffering of the people of his time, tries to cure the disease of his society by teaching philosophical and political principles to provide meaning. His method of meaning therapy to achieve a meaningful pattern of life, i.e. understanding happiness can be found in 1. doing valuable work, 2. creating empirical values 3. Value of high experiences, and its components: recognizing individual responsibility, creating moral virtues, forming a community, and Lovemaking, mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an epoch considered by some as the eclipse of Islamic philosophy, debates, dialogues and often disputes either oral and written or in-person and in-absentia occurred between Ṣadr alDīn Dashtakī and Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī at Shiraz school of philosophy, which consequently brisked up Shiraz field of philosophy at that time and deepened Islamic philosophical discussions over succeeding eras. Interpretation of Hayākal al-Nūr (temples of light) was one among the discussed topics. The present paper specifically analyzes the two philosophers’ interpretation of Suhrawardian definition of body. It is observed that interpreters have differing opinions over the meaning of two terms qaṣd (intent) and ishāra (allusion). Further, the distinctive and similar aspect among bodies to Davānī is hyāt-i lāzim (dependent states), whereas Dashtakī refers to hyāt-i qayr-i lāzim (independent states). The third opposing point is juz’-i‘lā yatajazī (the indivisible). Davānī believes what receives sensory allusion divides into triple directions; however, as Dashtakī articulates, sensory allusion includes the possibility of division into triple directions. Drawing on the conflicts, the study takes a descriptive-analytical approach to examine the opposition between the two interpreters and ultimately discussions are weighed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Atabat-ol-kataba is a book written by Montajab-o-ddin Badi'e Joveini which includes samples of administrative and court-related correspondence as well as friendly letters of the Sultan Sanjar Saljuqi era. The book was edited and published in 1950 by Allameh Ghazvini and Eghbal Ashtiani based on a photo version of the book as the only existing version of the work in question. It was also reprinted in 2005. A re-edited version of the book including an index and commentaries has recently been published in 2017 by Maryam Sadeghi. She has resorted to a comparative method based onthe version published by Ghazvini and Eghbal. The present paper aims to explore Sadeghi's method of editing and correcting and to criticize some shortcomings with her work as opposed to Ghazvini and Eghbal’s edition. The findings indicate that in spite of correcting several errors resulting from typesetting in Ghazvini and Eghbal’s work, when it comes to refining the text itself, Sadeghi has frequently deviated from the comparative methodology and has rather made subjective corrections. As a result, in many cases, she has changed Ghazvini and Eghbal’s correct choices on the basis of her own taste and subjective perception and has entered huge mistakes into the text. The paper examines some cases of such arbitrary changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: According to Carl Gustav Jung, in addition to the personal unconscious, human beings have a common part called the collective unconscious. The contents of this part of the soul and mind are archetypes. Archetypal critique is one of the main approaches of contemporary literary criticism that explores the nature and characteristics of archetypes and their role in literature. Among these archetypes in the present study, the archetype of anima is discussed. Anima is the feminine half of men’s existence that can change under the living conditions of any person and its positive and negative manifestations can be manifested. In the field of literature in different cultures, we also see the birth of strong themes by this archetype, so it is necessary to study products such as novels that are more dependent on the individual’s consciousness based on psychoanalysis. In this regard, the present study investigates the manifestation of this element in the psyche of Ibn Arabi in the novel Mawt Ṣaghir (Minor Death) by Mohammad Hassan Alwan, a prominent Saudi writer. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this paper shows that anima has a significant effect on the creation of events and incidents in the story and has created grounds for conflict between the characters. The findings indicate that the positive manifestations of the anima have been manifested in the form of lover, guide, otad, etc. Research Method)s): One of the most popular types of literary criticism in recent decades has been psychological critique based on Jung’s theories. Jung’s school of psychology, known as Analytical Psychology, is especially famous for its collective subconscious and its contents, the archetypes. In addition to the individual unconscious, Jung believes in a deeper layer called the collective subconscious for the psyche, which is common to all human beings. One of the most important archetypes that Jung addresses in his theories is the anime archetype, which represents the female psyche. In other words, “Jung was the only twentieth-century psychologist to distinguish between male and female psychology” (Sanford, 1980, p. 5). This study analyzes the manifestation of this element in the psyche of Ibn Arabi's character in the novel Mawt Ṣaghir (Minor Death) by Mohammad Hassan Alwan, a prominent Saudi writer. Considering that the archetype of anima at different levels is reflected in the main character, familiarity and integration with one's own anime lead to what Jung refers to as the archetype of happiness, explaining why research is needed. Result/Finding: With the help of the evidence extracted from the novel, this paper deals with the similarities of Ibn Arabi's mistress to the concept of anima in Jung's theory and shows that the descriptive-analytical method has a significant effect on creating events and incidents in the story and the context of conflict it has created. The findings of the study indicate that the positive aspects of the anima are manifested in the form of lover, guide, otad, and so on. In sum, the characteristics of the anima that Jung referred to are consistent with the characteristics that Alwan intended for the characters. In other words, obvious manifestations of the archetype of anima can be seen in the Mawt Ṣaghir of Mohammad Hassan Alwan, which reminds us of the influence and role of the collective unconscious in the creation of this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the formation processes of linguistic idioms were studied using social semiology framework, specifically, the semiotic approach of Theo Van Leeuween: “discourse as the recontextualisation of social practice”. This paper aimed to introduce linguistic idioms as the structures that make the speeches expansive and powerful. The main problem here was to deal with how the linguistic idioms, which were creative structures, were formed from real, common, and specified situations. To solve this problem, we considered 3 questions: 1) According to Van Leeuween approach, what kind of connection was there between social reality and linguistic idioms? 2) According to semiotic approach, which kind of discourses did the linguistic idioms originate from? 3) According to Deleauze’s approach, how did the interaction between verbal texts and linguistic idioms result in meaning formation? The hypotheses of this study were as follows: 1) It seemed that linguistic idioms were discourses, which were recontextualized through social realities; 2) The linguistic idioms were action-oriented discourses; 3) The meaning formation was done due to devaluation and valuation (value transfer), cognition change, and creation of semantic depth and volume. To evaluate these hypotheses, we studied 10 cases of the most widely used Persian linguistic idioms. The results showed that the first and second hypotheses were confirmed partially and the third one was corroborated completely. One of the main achievements of this research was introducing the linguistic idioms as enunciative practices, which originated from discourses related to social practices and that they had rhizomatic function, network function, and puzzle function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Emerging technologies have become one of the main concerns of societies of today. Governments and societies are well aware that their economic future and survival in today's changing world are tied to new technologies, especially artificial intelligence technology. This paper aims to help managers, practitioners, and policymakers in prioritizing the implementation of artificial intelligence technology in applications such as transportation, health, security, education, and research. Design/methodology/approach: After a relatively complete follow-up in the field of artificial intelligence research, the criteria for prioritizing emerging technologies have been calculated and weighted by the Friedman method. Then, the application areas have been identified by the thematic analysis method. Finally, using the COPRAS multi-criteria decision-making technique, the application areas of artificial intelligence have been ranked. Findings: This research resulted in a model and indicated that the three areas of economics, transportation, and governance were given more priority for the application of artificial intelligence technology, respectively. Research limitations/implications: Designing mechanisms to monitor advances in emergent technology and artificial intelligence to improve the proposed model and update the model were the most important suggestions. Another suggestion was to identify the gap between the theoretically developed model and practice. Practical implications: This paper provides a reliable prioritization of the applied areas using scientific criteria appropriate to the country. This provides a scientific-operational package, and policy-making by creating a logical relationship between theory and practice. If such a document is presented in policy and legislative circles, this prioritization can be one of the most important tools for decision-making and rescuing from political and strategic dilemmas. Social implications: Improving the quality of human life by implementing artificial intelligence in various usages of daily life, and facilitating social availability to the important types of possibilities are the most important achievement of this research. Originality/value: Since no model has been found to prioritize the implementation of artificial intelligence technology in applications, the proposed model closes such a gap. The paper provides appropriate tools both to practitioners and policymakers who intend to decide and deploy artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Marivan region located in the west of Kurdistan province, northwest of Iran and in the structural geological divisions of Iran (Stöcklin and Nabavi, 1973). The Mesozoic volcanic rocks are widespread in the Northern Sanandaj- Sirjan zone in comparison to the central and southern parts of this zone. The basic term of this volcanic belt with a calc-alkaline tendency is dominant where was formed in association with the Sanandaj-Sirjan arc magmatism in the Mesozoic which generated as a result of the subduction of the Neotethys oceanic crust under the active continental margin of Central Iran (Omrani et al., 2008; Azizi and Jahangiri, 2008; Moinevaziri et al., 2015). The studied area located in the Sanandaj Cretaceous volcanic belt (SVB) (Azizi and Moinevaziri, 2009), is characterized by the presence of basalts and andesite-basalts, often intruded shales, sandstones, and Cretaceous limestones. Rahimzadeh et al. (2021) investigated the North of Sanandaj-Sirjan magmatism in two basic and acidic phases and attributed their formation to a continental arc tectonic environment with extension. Also, the general age of the North Sanandaj-Sirjan zone magmatism varies from 110 to 130 million years (Barmian-Aptian). Ali et al. (2016) determined a bimodal model for the volcanic rocks of the Kata-rash region in Iraq Kurdistan (north of the study area), which originated 108 Ma (Albian) in an oceanic arc tectonic environment. The main purpose of the present paper is to study the petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic rocks of the area, in order to determine their tectonic setting. Regional Geology The The studied area is located in the north and east of Marivan city and is a part of the 1:100,000 geological map of Marivan (Sabzehi et al., 2009). Structurally, it is located in the northwestern part of Sanandaj-Sirjan zone. The rock units with Albian age, are a sequence of low metamorphosed volcanic-sedimentary rocks and consist of basaltic lavas, andesite-basalt, rhyodacite, pyroclastic, shale, calcareous shale, metamorphosed limestone, sandstone and minor amounts of conglomerate. A great volume of basic rocks is found in the north of Marivan while the acidic domes are seen in the east of the Marivan. The field relationships of volcano-sedimentary sequence indicates that the volcanic rocks erupted from deep to shallow marine environment (Rahimzadeh et al., 2021). Research method Eleven samples selected from the Marivan volcanic rocks for chemical analyses. The major elements were measured by ICP-OES method and trace and rare earth elements (REE) were measured by the ICP-MS method in the Canadian MS-Analyses laboratory. Petrography Cretaceous volcanic rocks with bimodal composition are often basic to slightly intermediate and acidic outcrops. The basic phase includes a large amount of basalt and a small amount of basaltic andesite and the acidic phase is composed of rhyolite and rhyodacite. Porphyritic and microlithic-glassy are the common textures in the rocks under study. The presence of zoned-plagioclases, quartz with embayed texture in rhyodacite, regrowth in crystals margin in both basic and acidic phases indicate the chemical imbalance of phenocrysts with melt in the magma forming these rocks. Geochemistry Based on the results of chemical analyses, the Marivan volcanic rocks are classified as the basic and acidic where the bimodality of rocks can be seen. The basic rocks show calk-alkaline with tholeiitic tendency whereas the acidic term display the calc-alkaline nature. The geochemical results in the spider diagrams show that the basic rocks of the region are enriched in LREE and LILE (K, Cs and relatively Ba and Rb), and depleted in HFSE (Nb, Ti, P) except U and Th. The acidic rocks are enriched in LILE (K, Cs, Rb, Th) except Sr and depletion of HFSE (P, Ti, Nb) except U and Zr. Nb and Ti depletion is one of the characteristic features of magmatic arcs. Also, these rocks have an LREE-enriched pattern in both the basic and acidic phases with a high LREE/HREE ratio and a specific negative Eu anomaly are found only in the acidic phase. The acidic rocks were originated from the lherzolitic spinel mantle with a 5 to 8% partial melting degree whereas the basic phase is generated from the lherzolitic spinel-garnet mantle with 10 to 22% partial melting degree. Tectonic setting This volcanic complex is a part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan magmatic arc, which shows both subduction and extensional components. Extension in the continental arc happened relation to roll-back or slab collapse (Wei et al., 2017; Rahimzadeh et al., 2021). Rollback occurs as a result of its pressure, the subducting crust turns back and breaks, and extension occurs for a short period. So, in this geodynamic environment, bimodal volcanism can be happened where basic term show the tholeiitic affinity. It’s happened from continental arc position. In this tectonic setting environments, most of the volcanic rocks are basaltic rocks while in a typical continental arc such as the Andes arc and the Urumieh-Dokhtar abundant andesite rocks are widespread (Gill, 2010). Conclusion Marivan volcanic rocks are part of the northern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone continental arc, which is roll-back happened in the Albian and as a result occurred the local extension in the regional compression setting. Its signs include the presence of shales associated with volcanic rocks, the abundance of basalts over andesites, the tendency of calc-alkaline to tholeiitic nature in most of the basic rocks and as the several geodynamic diagrams display. However, the obvious evidence of subduction in the region can be seen as the depletion of Nb and Ti elements and enrichment of LILE and LREE compared to HFS elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction The magmatic evolution of the Urumieh-Dokhtar arc is related to the Neo-Tethys subduction and the continental collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has led to the creation of diverse and different magmatism along different parts of this belt (Shahabpour, 2005; Agard et al., 2011; Richards, 2015; Karimpour et al., 2021). Volcanic rocks, with various lithological compositions located in the central part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar belt, are part of the extensive Eocene activity, Knowing the nature of basicintermediate volcanic rocks northwest of Nain requires more detailed investigations. For this purpose, the exploration areas of Chakad, Safafoulad, and Mehrando, located northwest of Nain, were selected for further investigations. The main goal of the present paper is to understand the origin and the tectonic of the volcanic rocks of this part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt using their petrography and geochemical characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In this paper, the competition for the collection of electronic and electrical waste between the manufacturer and the retailer has been discussed to recover them, taking into account the improvement of the quality and greening of the collected products to increase the level of customer satisfaction and increase profits, and reducing dangerous effects on the environment. For this purpose, a closed two-loop supply chain has been designed with three models. A centralized model has been considered for cooperation in the collection channel of the entire chain with the integration of the manufacturer and retailer and two decentralized models for competition in the collection of returned products between the manufacturer and retailer with two scenarios. In the first scenario, the impact of improving the quality and greening of manufactured products of a decentralized two-person model has been analyzed, consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer, and its performance compared to a centralized model. In the second scenario, the profits-sharing agreement between a retailer and a manufacturer has been used in the decentralized model. Design/methodology/approach: The decisions of product quality improvement have been investigated in a simple dynamic environment and consumer preferences have been considered for new and remanufactured products as a performance of new product quality. In the developed model, the topic of quality and greening has been given, and the demand functions and profit functions have been written accordingly considering two demand functions for the manufacturer and retailer, and also two profit functions for the manufacturer and retailer. Mathematica software has been used for solving problems and also graphs related to sensitivity analysis. The discussion has been drawn and the analysis related to the profit functions of the manufacturer and the retailer has been done regarding the parameters. Findings: The results indicated that the manufacturer preferred to work with the retailer in a noncompetitive manner. The retailer used the first scenario because due to its profit. The retailer’s profit was more concentrated in the second scenario. The proposed approach was suggested to be applied to multiple manufacturers and retailers in future studies. It was also recommended to consider the storage and inventory costs for the collection products and to estimate the duration in which, they can stay in the manufacturer's warehouse with no costs increase. Another suggestion was to consider the demand with different functions or with a stochastic variable. Research limitations/implications: The limitations of this research are: i) determining the quality level of collected products; ii) the location for remanufacturing by the manufacturer and recycling by the retailer; iii) sales estimate; iv) forecasting the number of products and types of products that have been collected; v) estimating consumer demand for remanufactured products; and vi) grading the greening of the collected products. Practical implications: In general, economic profitability is considered the main driving factor for the entry of original equipment manufacturers and independent remanufacturers of the remanufacturing industry. According to the results, manufacturing companies can remanufacture the valuable wastes after retailers collected them and then determine their quality level. By increasing the quality and production of greening products, they have entered the competitive market and have offered products at a lower cost and more profit, when a centralized model was used. Social implications: In today's society, one of the important issues is environmental sustainability. In this regard, the remanufacturing of returned products and the greening of products by the manufacturer have reduced the use of raw materials, saved energy, and reduced air pollution. In this paper, the subjects of competition for the collection and recycling of electronic and electrical waste (i.e, medical equipment, lighting devices and lamps, all kinds of audio and video equipment, IT equipment and household electrical appliances) between the manufacturer and the retailer, the improvement of the quality and greening of the collected products to increase the level of customer satisfaction/profits, and reducing dangerous effects on the environment were discussed. Originality/value: This study contributed to the quality improvement of returned products and greening products. Based on this research, product quality decisions are investigated in a simple dynamic environment, and consumer preferences for new and remanufactured products are considered as a function of new product quality. In summary, this research has examined the interactions between improving the quality of remanufactured products and greening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The oil and gas industry has an annual investment of 700 billion dollars in the world, and the issue of cost savings to stabilize competitiveness is at least 140 billion dollars per year. Previously, in the oil and gas industry, the use of blockchain technology was considered cautiously, but now large companies are seriously looking for ways to implement such technology in their companies. The oil and gas industry presents a unique and compelling opportunity to exploit blockchain technologies due to high transaction value (and thus risk) and economic pressures to reduce costs. a security system that reduces risk, increases transparency, provides an audit trail, and significantly reduces transaction costs may be attractive to oil and gas companies. Oil and gas, contrary to the size and scale of transactions between banks, are sold in large volumes and thus require significant value. the frequency of transactions is also high. oil companies must also be aware of where the crude resource will ultimately be absorbed. Blockchain can provide a fully transparent and secure record of the entire supply chain. Using a distributed ledger, digital tokens can be used to represent an asset being traded. This paper aims to evaluate the readiness to use blockchain in the National Iranian Gas Company. Design/methodology/approach: The approach of this study is survey-based. In terms of its purpose, it is applied research and in terms of its nature and method, it is descriptive-survey research. In this study, two library and field methods have been used to collect data. The library method has been used to write the theoretical foundations, the background of the research, and to find the desired components and metrics, and the questionnaire of pairwise comparisons with a spectrum of nine has been used for field research and collecting the required data. Findings: By examining the existing models and using the opinions of blockchain experts, the effective factors in the evaluation of this technology in National Iranian Gas Company were identified and to examine the factors identified in the company and to rank, score and prioritize the factors, the fuzzy hierarchy method has been used. Factors have been weighted by Chang's development analysis method and the weight of all components was determined. Also, by forming matrices of importance and status using experts' opinions and using fuzzy screening, the maturity level of factors in the National Iranian Gas Company was identified. After identifying and confirming the effective factors, the questionnaire of paired comparisons was designed and submitted to nine experts and by collecting the questionnaires and using the fuzzy hierarchy method and data analysis, the weighting of all the criteria and sub-criteria was carried out, with the organizational factor having the highest weight and the environmental factor having the lowest weight. The support of the senior manager has had the highest weight and the size of the organization has had the lowest weight under the criteria. Also, ranking, prioritizing, and measuring the maturity of the finalized criteria were done using the fuzzy screening method, and the criteria of organizational readiness, technology readiness, environmental readiness, and human readiness were placed in first to fourth places, respectively. Research limitations/implications: It is suggested that the National Iranian Gas Company and the country's oil and gas industries, in general, seek to provide the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of such technology to use and benefit from it and formulate a suitable road map by forming specialized units. The lack of familiarity of human resources of organizations with blockchain technology and the financial and human cost of changes in each organization are among the main limitations of using blockchain in the oil and gas industry. Practical implications: Blockchain technology can be used to reduce costs, improve processes, track and secure product and customer data, increase product safety, and reduce counterfeiting and fraud. Social implications: The impact of oil and gas on human life is clear and cannot be ignored. it is enough to look around and see the countless uses of such products. Therefore, the optimal use of oil and gas seems significant. Blockchain technology, by influencing the supply chain, increasing the security of exchanges, optimal marketing, etc. can be the basis for increasing productivity and, as a result, the possibility of using such strategic products as much as possible for human society. Originality/value: The value of using new technologies to increase productivity in organizations is not hidden from anyone. However, the question is whether the conditions for using this technology are available in organizations. This is particularly important when the technology is used incorrectly and leads to negative results. For the first time, this paper sought to investigate the possibility of using blockchain technology in the National Iranian Gas Company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In addition to its inherent impact on the health section, the distribution of pharmaceutical products has also an economic aspect. This paper aims to design a supply chain for pharmaceutical distribution companies so that they have the best coverage and performance at the lowest cost. Design/methodology/approach: An operations research model has been developed based on minimizing distribution costs and construction costs to address the problem. The model’s constraints included the rules governing the national pharmaceutical supply chain. Due to the complexity of the model and the high dimensions of the problem in real conditions, the model has been solved using a two-tier genetic algorithm in combination with priority-based coding and the K-medoids clustering method. To optimize the performance of the algorithm, the parameter tuning of the Taguchi method has been used. Findings: Clustering demand points from 429 to 50 centers had less than 1% implication on the total costs. Distribution costs might even grow in optimal designs, however, the total cost was reduced by 36%. Optimal points for distribution centers were located and an optimal distribution plan for goods was recommended for a company distributing 239 types of pharmaceutical products. Research limitations/implications: In this paper, only costs were considered due to establishing new distribution centers and dispatching goods. In future studies, inventory costs can be considered either. Also, there may be more legal aspects that have not been considered such as the minimum number of distribution centers. Practical implications: To evaluate the efficiency of the model in practice, a case study was implemented on the drug distribution company, i.e., Adorateb. For the studied company, an appropriate distribution network, as well as an optimal distribution pattern of drugs, were identified and compared in terms of cost with the current situation of the company. The recommended optimal location relative to the current situation indicated a significant reduction in costs. Social implications: Designing supply chains strongly influences the performance of the pharmaceutical supply chain. By reducing costs through optimal network design, while covering demand requirements, a society may have sustainable access to pharmaceutical products in a long term. Originality/value: The main innovation of this paper is the recommendation of a mathematical model for designing a pharmaceutical distribution network while considering real supply chain national regulations along with a hybrid solution approach that can handle real-size problems. The applicability of the model and the solution approach were verified by a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's transmission networks (TNs), the sudden failure of some generation units (GUs) from the generation cycle can cause some problems such as the imbalance between generation and demand-side (consumption) leading to increasing the cost of operating the power system. On the other hand, distributed generators (DGs) in distribution networks (DNs) can be a relatively good alternative to-the-disconnected GUs with their ability to react quickly. Therefore, robust cooperation-for integrated TN&DN is essential. However, it is impossible to solve the cooperation of TN&DN problem without considering the AC optimal power flow (ACOPF), the operators' independence, and the information privacy. Thus, in this paper, a linearized ACOPF model for the robust cooperation of TN&DN problem is presented along with an efficient hierarchical decentralized solution method to solve the robust cooperation of integrated TN&DN in which the information-privacy-is-maintained-for both network operators. In this paper, the numerical simulations are analyzed for standard IEEE 30/118-bus transmission and IEEE 33/69-bus distribution networks. Finally, the paper validates through simulations the accuracy and computational-efficiency-of the proposed robust optimization problem and hierarchical decentralized method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concerning the legislative role of members of parliament in Iran, the present paper aimed to identify factors affecting their perception during passing laws through a behavioral approach. Sampling was carried out via judgmental method and was continued till reaching saturation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parliament member. The answers to interview questions in addition to documents such as negotiation proceedings were analyzed. Employing grounded theory, codes, concepts and categories were obtained as a result of data analysis. Five propositions were obtained after linking three categories at selective coding stage. Data analysis found personality, education, experience, personal feelings, emotions and feelings as individual factors affecting perception of MPs. Perceptions, the main category of research consists of direct and indirect perception as two subcategories and sense making, sense breaking, and sense giving as its concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Josephson junction is a device consisting of two superconducting electrodes connected by a weak junction such as a thin insulation coating. The Josephson junction has chaotic behavior parameters not desirable in high-frequency applications. In this paper, a model predictive control approach based on an ant colony optimization algorithm is proposed to synchronize two Josephson junction models with different parameters. Here, the Josephson junction is described with a nonlinear model, and the synchronization is obtained using the slave-master technique. For this purpose, an appropriate objective function is defined to assess the particles within the state space. This objective function minimizes simultaneously the tracking error, control effort, and control smoothness. The dynamic optimization problem is solved using an ant colony optimization algorithm. Numerical simulations are conducted to assess the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Also, a Monte Carlo evaluation is achieved to compute the statistic performance of the suggested controller. In addition, sensitivity analysis to changes in the number of ants and the number of iteration of the inner loop of the algorithm was performed. The results show that the controller is significantly sensitive to reducing the number of iteration of the inner loop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the dynamic economic and emission dispatch during a day as an important challenge in engineering. On the other hand, renewable energy provides an undeniable contribution to the energy supply. Therefore, to create an efficient model, the probability wind energy models have been proposed. In principle, this problem has several limitations and to bring it to reality, practical and nonlinear constraints such as power balance, ramp rate, prohibited zone, non-smooth cost function, and production constraints have been considered. Since these functions i.e. emission, cost, and wind models are conflicting in nature, to solve this problem, a multi-objective virus colony search algorithm (VCS) based on Pareto theory has been proposed. To improve the performance of the virus colony search algorithm, the chaos theory has been employed that eliminates the weakness of the standard algorithm, ie the speed of convergence and increased number of iterations of the algorithm to achieve the optimal solution. Chaos theory refers to the nature of complex systems with unpredictable behavior. Using the stochastic properties of chaos system, Chaos theory can improve the quality of population distribution in search space and enhance algorithm convergence function. The fuzzy decision function is also used to select the best solution from the set of solutions. The proposed model and method are applied to different systems and in some cases are compared with other methods in the articles. The results show an improvement in the performance of the proposed algorithm. The results also show that the presence of renewable resources has reduced production costs and thus increased network security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the argument structure of deverbal nouns, and the restrictions on the mapping of arguments in Sanandaji Kurdish. Due to the syntactic-space limitations of the DP in the language (i.e, the Ezafe construction), the issue concerning how to map the arguments of a deverbal noun and the limitations governing its argument structure are important. This is mainly because achieving a comprehensive mapping space that covers different syntactic projections is a desirable theoretical goal in generative approaches to argument structure. In this research, first, deverbal nouns are divided into four categories: unergative, unaccusative, two-place predicate, and three-place predicate. In unergative deverbal nouns, the external argument is instantiated as Ezafe to the deverbal noun and it cannot be incorporated into the deverbal noun. Regarding the unaccusative deverbal nouns, the internal argument can be present both as Ezafe and as being incorporated into the deverbal noun. There are two forms regarding transitive deverbal nouns: the internal argument can be instantiated as Ezafe and the external argument cannot be present, or the external argument is instantiated as Ezafe, and the internal argument is incorporated into the deverbal noun. In the last category of Sanandaji Kurdish deverbal nouns, the Goal is in the form of a Preposition Phrase (PP) and cannot check the EPP feature and be raised to the subject position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]