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        1 - Examining the Role of Human Resources in Hotel Ranking in Iran
        Amir Mohsen Madani Leila Bagheri NezamAbad
        Introduction and Objectives: Hospitality is of dynamic sectors in tourism industry which interms of job and capital creation plays an important role in today's social model and after oiland automotive industries, as an income maker industry has been considered by manygo More
        Introduction and Objectives: Hospitality is of dynamic sectors in tourism industry which interms of job and capital creation plays an important role in today's social model and after oiland automotive industries, as an income maker industry has been considered by manygovernments. So, in order to upgrade the hotel industry in the international competitionfield, the impact of hotel managers and employees recognition will be of particularimportance in the ranking of hotels.Research method: This study is applied in terms of goal and is trying to identify effectivedimensions in human capital and hotel managers. Thus, in order to execute the plan, fichetaking cards has been used and for the field study to assess the status quo in terms of gradesymbols and the amount of affecting the development of hotel industry, somequestionnaires for the experts were designed.Finding: According to the research conducted, the main components of hotel ranking andclassifying in Iran were determined and the importance of each were identified. Finally,some solutions are offered to improve the status of hotel and tourism industries in Iran.Conclusion: Based on the study, the effective indicators in managers and hotel staff wereidentified and it was indicated the role of manager and hotel staff is not deniable inimproving the quality of hospitality services and special dimensions of human capital such astheir education and personal skills have a significant role in gaining star. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Designing a Domestic Model for Classification and Grading Hotels in Iran
        دکتر محسن قدمی دکتر علی اصغر صرافی زاده امیرمحسن مدنی
        Introduction and Research Goal: Hospitality is of the very dynamic part of tourism industry which includes a set of administration and facilities for sleep, rest, food and beverages and entertainments. Therefore, because of the special importance of hospitality in terms More
        Introduction and Research Goal: Hospitality is of the very dynamic part of tourism industry which includes a set of administration and facilities for sleep, rest, food and beverages and entertainments. Therefore, because of the special importance of hospitality in terms of job creation, economic growth and culture distribution, this study attempts to design a domestic model of classification and grading of hotels in Iran. Method: This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive (correlation) in terms of method. Therefore, in order to implement the research practically, fiche cards and in the field study, 17 items researcher-made questionnaires are used. Statistical population including a number of 47 hotel and tourism experts was selected through census sampling method. Findings: Based on the study, the main components of hotel classification and grading in Iran were identified and the importance of each component affecting the hotel classification and grading was determined. At the end, some suggestions were offered to improve the status of tourism and hotel industry in Iran. Conclusion: International hotel grading models in the world are not applicable for hotels in Muslim countries and especially in Iran. The results from Friedman test showed that in classification and grading of hotels in Iran, the components of well educated managers and staff's good behavior and politeness, peaceful and desirable space of guest rooms based on domestic and national architecture culture, diversity of traditional and international dishes as well as cultural and natural attractions have an important and significant role in designing a domestic model and growth of hospitality in the country.     Manuscript profile
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        3 - The Analysis of Astara’s Villages Service Grading According to Mouris model for Developmental Alternatives
        Seyede Sedighe Hasani Mehr
        Rural development planning is a basic factor of development for each country, therefore one of the most important task of rural planners are to find optimal solution for rural areas development based on there capabilities and potentials. The research matter is Analysis More
        Rural development planning is a basic factor of development for each country, therefore one of the most important task of rural planners are to find optimal solution for rural areas development based on there capabilities and potentials. The research matter is Analysis of Astara’s villages service Grading according to Mouris model for developmental alternatives. Methodology of this paper is descriptive – analytical approach and information gathered by combinational method(documental & action studies). In this research development is dependent variable. The independent variable include: infrastructural facilities such as water, gas, light, and general facilities such as health, teaching, official services. The article has shown interesting relationship among length and development level, population and development level, that in the first level (upper than 1000 persons) and third level (under 100 persons) exist direct relation. Finally contribute  some suggestions as following: -To make high level services for villages and increasing their satisfaction. -To share with NGO about rural development. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Grading the Socio-economic Development Rate of the North Khorasan Province with the Use of TOPSIS Model
        بهار Manochehri اسماعیل Shieh
        Introduction and goal: Regional planning is one of the important issues and essential for the development of regions which has been considered by the researchers in recent decades. One of the  methods for grading the areas for development is using social and econom More
        Introduction and goal: Regional planning is one of the important issues and essential for the development of regions which has been considered by the researchers in recent decades. One of the  methods for grading the areas for development is using social and economical indicators and applying in TOPSIS model. In this paper, with the use of the TOPSIS model to study and evaluation of the socio-economic development of North Khorasan’s provinces town,and through determining the levels of development of each town, the diagnosis of direction and type of development will be possible . The results of this research can be effective for  the authorities’ decision-making, and finally, fulfill the social justice.  Methodology: Researchmethods to explain the situation,reasoning and analysis using concepts is based on descriptive - analytical approach that is done in a logical whole and scientific process. in order to determine the development degree of the towns of province, according to the importance of indicators, at first ,the socio-economic indicators that is relevant to subject of research, based on data extracted from the Statistical Yearbook 1390,was collected and then with TOPSIS model ,the grade of towns were determined and the results were analyzed. Findings: The result of research findings indicate that in 1392, BOJNURD ranked the first in terms of development. This town because of the administerial-political center, as the Growth Pole, attract the facilities, services and skilled manpower from the areas surrounding and thus the superiorities in the spatial structure has been preserved.also Maneh and Samalqan ranked seventh among the seven towns that demonstrate the intensity of inequality and difference in the enjoyment of the blessings of development. Conclusion: This study concluded that the approach of the spatial structure of the north Khorasan province, is Centre-Periphery development pattern. Bojnoord has the greater volume in infrastructure and industrial investments as the center of province and slightly away from the frontier and border towns of province. Thus, pay attention to spatial planning for achieving balanced regional development is inevitable. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Modern Membrane Bio Reactors Investigation in biodegrading of municipal landfills leachate
        Mohammad Etemadi Morteza Shokri
        Background and Objective: This article, demonstrate uses of Membrane Bio Reactors in municipal landfills. Because of daily increasing sweeping amounts and no balance between generation and recycling of them in the most part of the world, type of management and gathering More
        Background and Objective: This article, demonstrate uses of Membrane Bio Reactors in municipal landfills. Because of daily increasing sweeping amounts and no balance between generation and recycling of them in the most part of the world, type of management and gathering of sweeping has challenged. Thus hygienic burial method for generated sweeping is one of the applied methods in many countries. Hence, monitoring and management of productive leachate of municipal landfills to prevent underground water and soil from pollutant is obligatory. Material and Methodology: In this study, some modern Membrane Bio Reactors in municipal landfill were investigated. Then, advantages, defects, and application of each ones have been considered. Therefore, recent articles and researches about biodegrading of leachate were studied. Findings: Among the various methods of biological treatment, complex system method is one of the effective and strong approaches to treatment and biodegrading of wastewaters. Finally, to showing active carbon action for prevention of membranes fouling, two aerobic pilots with equal conditions were compared. Also, clearing the important parameters of wastewater contaminants such as COD and NH3-N in the presence of granular activated carbon was compared. Discussion and Conclusion: In order to treatment of municipal landfills leachate lots of methods with strengths and weaknesses is used. With investigation and Feasibility of municipal landfill site, the most efficient and effective method in terms of performance and cost based on need can be selected. . Manuscript profile
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        6 - The Use of Electronic Warfare and Information Signaling in Network-based Warfare
        Mohammad Reza Hassani Ahangar Saeed Talati Ali Rahmati Hamid Heidari
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        7 - Free Vibrations of Continuous Grading Fiber Orientation Beams on Variable Elastic Foundations
        S Kamarian M.H Yas A Pourasghar
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        8 - Classification of papaya fruit based on maturity using machine learning and transfer learning approach
        mohammad ghorbani Mostafa Ghazizadeh-Ahsaee Kazem Jafari Naeimi
        Grading and packing fruits based on visual inspections can be time-consuming, destructive, and unreliable. The objective of the conducted research is to provide an intelligent, fast and reliable classification method to detect the maturity of papaya fruit in three level More
        Grading and packing fruits based on visual inspections can be time-consuming, destructive, and unreliable. The objective of the conducted research is to provide an intelligent, fast and reliable classification method to detect the maturity of papaya fruit in three levels: immature, partially mature and mature. The total number of images used in this article is 300 images, 100 images have been collected for each level. In this paper, the use of two approaches, machine learning and transfer learning, is proposed to classify papaya fruit maturity status. The machine learning approach includes the use of three feature descriptors and three different classifiers, which are: local binary pattern (LBP), Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix (GLCM), histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classification algorithm, support vector machine(SVM) and Naïve Bayes classification algorithm. Transfer learning methods include the use of six pre-trained deep learning models Alexnet, Googlenet, Resnet101, Resnet50, Resnet18, VGG19. KNN classifier using HOG feature descriptor has achieved 95.4% accuracy and 3:52 seconds training time. The classifier based on transfer learning approach VGG19 was able to record better performance among other deep learning networks by obtaining 100% accuracy and training time of 10:42 seconds. Two classification methods using machine learning and transfer learning methods have been able to obtain accuracy of 95.4% and 100%, respectively, which are 0.7% and 6% more than the existing proposed methods. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Performance Analysis of Remanufacturing System Considering Inspection & Grading Policies, Sourcing Policies and Resource Policies Under Multiple Quality Scenarios: Towards Environmental Sustainability
        Magdalene Andrew-Munot Shirley Jonathan Tanjong
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        10 - رتبه‌بندی واحدهای تصمیم‌گیری با ساختار شبکه دو مرحله‌ای چند دوره‌ای: روشی مبتنی بر تحلیل پوششی داده‌های نسبتی
        مقصود احمد خانلو قراخانلو نیما آذرمیر شتربانی قاسم توحیدی شبنم رضویان روح اله عباسی
        تحلیل پوششی داده ها به عنوان یک روش غیرپارامتریک برای اندازه گیری کارایی مجموعه ای از واحدهای تصمیم گیری همواره مورد توجه می باشد . عدد کارایی حاصل از مدل های استاندارد ، معیاری برای مقایسه عملکرد هر واحد تصمیم گیری با بقیه واحدها می باشد. علی رغم نقاط قوت فراوان این مد More
        تحلیل پوششی داده ها به عنوان یک روش غیرپارامتریک برای اندازه گیری کارایی مجموعه ای از واحدهای تصمیم گیری همواره مورد توجه می باشد . عدد کارایی حاصل از مدل های استاندارد ، معیاری برای مقایسه عملکرد هر واحد تصمیم گیری با بقیه واحدها می باشد. علی رغم نقاط قوت فراوان این مدل ها، از نقاط ضعف آنها می توان به عدم تمایز بین واحدهای کارا اشاره کرد. همچنین، این مدل ها به ساختار داخلی واحدها توجه نمی کنند و دیدگاه جعبه سیاه دارند. در جهت رفع این مشکلات، مدل های تحلیل پوششی داده های نسبتی که هم از لحاظ زمان و هزینه بسیار مقرون به صرفه تر است مورد استفاده قرار می گیرند؛ اما این مدلها ایستا هستند و زمان را در ارزیابی لحاظ نمی کنند. در‌این مقاله، روشی برای رتبه‌بندی واحدهای تصمیم‌گیری با ساختار شبکه دو مرحله‌ای چند زمانی با استفاده از تحلیل پوششی داده‌های نسبتی پیشنهاد می‌شود. با استفاده از مدل‌های تحلیل پوششی داده‌های نسبتی، سه دیدگاه متفاوت برای ارزیابی کارایی در دوره‌های زمانی معرفی می‌شود و متناظر با هر دیدگاه، یک عدد کارایی برای هر واحد تصمیم‌گیری به دست می‌آید. سپس، سه مقدار کارایی منتج از سه روش مذکور، با استفاده از روش آنتروپی شانون با یکدیگر ترکیب شده و یک معیار کارایی کلی برای هر واحد تعریف می‌شود. ‌این معیار در نهایت به عنوان شاخص اصلی برای رتبه‌بندی واحدها درنظر گرفته می‌شود. نتایج اجرای الگوریتم پیشنهادی بر روی مثال واقعی و مقایسه آن با نتایج روش‌های مشابه، قوت‌این الگوریتم را آشکار می‌سازد. Manuscript profile
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        11 - Presentation of an Efficient Automatic Short Answer Grading Model Based on Combination of Pseudo Relevance Feedback and Semantic Relatedness Measures
        Hossein Sadr Mojdeh Nazari Solimandarabi
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        12 - Review and prioritize the implementation of Zabol road to improvement and promote urban renewal and sustainable anthropocentrism (Case study: streets of Zabul downtown tissue)
        غلامعلی خمره اقبال نصیری
        Dire situation of pedestrian in the cities, Lack of attention to the interests of pedestrian paths, and deteriorating network of streets and sidewalks are the issues that have plagued modern cities. This study with the expression of a pedestrian-oriented environment, em More
        Dire situation of pedestrian in the cities, Lack of attention to the interests of pedestrian paths, and deteriorating network of streets and sidewalks are the issues that have plagued modern cities. This study with the expression of a pedestrian-oriented environment, emphasize on its importance as a model for Relocation in an urban setting. Each application for the renewal and modernization of the pathways that play a major role in the revitalization of cities is create. One of the problems of Zabol city is lack of proper sidewalks throughout the City as only 30% of the city sidewalks is useful for traffic. It is imperative that the need to address this issue. The main objective of this study is that the sidewalks as a public space for the development and modernization of the review and prioritization through several indicators that are effective in creating a civil right sidewalk. To become a sustainable city and anthropocentrism, in order to be active citizens. Descriptive and analytical research and with Using Vikor model 320 people in Zabol has been studied as an example. In the process of doing that, the weights calculated using analytical hierarchy process AHP, set priorities for improvement and modernization of Zabol sidewalks are clear. Our findings indicate that the situation in Zabol city sidewalks indicators presented in this study and the ideal of 100% good condition, 37% of the allocated number that are at a disadvantage in this respect. And don’t meet the needs of anthropocentrism, and sustainable cities. Manuscript profile
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        13 - Isolation and identification of petroleum hydrocarbon degrading bacteria from oil reservoirs located at Asmari, Ahwaz
        Rahil Kianpour Barjoei Hossein Motamedi Zahra Bamzadeh
        Background & Objectives: Bioremediation is a technology to remove oil pollution. Microbial bioremediation id the best technology to remove contaminants in which pollutants are converted to non-toxic chemicals in expenses of lowest amount of energy, chemicals and tim More
        Background & Objectives: Bioremediation is a technology to remove oil pollution. Microbial bioremediation id the best technology to remove contaminants in which pollutants are converted to non-toxic chemicals in expenses of lowest amount of energy, chemicals and time. This study aimed to isolate and identify the petroleum hydrocarbons degrading bacteria from oil reservoirs located at Asmari Ahwaz. Materials & Methods: This field study was performed in the oil reservoirs located at Asmar, Ahvaz. The primary isolation was performed using a salt containing base medium through a multistep process, and the salt tolerance of isolates were tested by this medium. The elimination of the hydrocarbons by isolated bacteria were studied using gas chromatography. The identity of bacteria was determined based on biochemical tests and sequencing of 16S rRNA gene. Results: In this study, a halotolerant Gram-positive bacteria, belonged to Streptomyces, was isolated from the field. This isolate showed an acceptable growth into 7.5% salt concentration and was able to use oil as the sole source of carbon. Also, this strain was able to reduce the level of hydrocarbons to 71.58 % through incubation in the saline medium for 10 days. Conclusion: According to the results, the isolated strain is capable to tolerate high concentrations of salts and is desirable to remove the hydrocarbons, which is beneficiary due to the difference in salt concentration in contaminated areas. As a result, this isolate can be useful for removal of pollutants from the environment and reduction of their side effects on life. Manuscript profile
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        14 - Molecular identification and optimization of keratinase production in keratin-degrading bacteria isolated from soil poultry of Marvdasht city
        Somayeh Khodayari Farshid Kafilzadeh
        Background & Objectives: Feather is one of the environmental pollutants that about 90% of its weight is made of highly resistant creatine plates. A number of bacteria are able to produce a keratinase enzyme in the presence of keratin substrate. The purpose of this s More
        Background & Objectives: Feather is one of the environmental pollutants that about 90% of its weight is made of highly resistant creatine plates. A number of bacteria are able to produce a keratinase enzyme in the presence of keratin substrate. The purpose of this study was isolation and molecular identification of keratin- degrading bacteria from the soil of poultry farms around Marvdasht city in order to measure keratinase activity in superior creatine-degrading strains. Material & Methods: In this study, 15 soil samples from poultry farms around Marvdasht city was collected. Seven bacterial isolates were cultured on a feather meal medium. Five isolates that showed clear degradation zone, were chosen for further chemical and molecular identification. The bacteria were sequenced, and a specific accession number in the gene bank was allocated to each of them as a new strain  Then, all five isolates were assessed for the level of keratinase enzyme production. Result: All isolates belonged to Bacillus species. All five isolates were able to completely degrade keratine. The most keratinase activity was reported 17.12 (ml/min)  for Bacillus cereus SKH1. Conclusion: Different species of Bacillus in this study showed the ability to produce a keratinase enzyme in the presence of keratin substrate. Investigating the level of keratinase activity in bacterial isolates showed that all have the potential treat feather waste. Manuscript profile