Purpose: The purpose of this applied research is to study the effectiveness of gamification on corporate training.  Methodology: A gamified course was designed and implemented to train the location of Fire Hosing Cabinet for 24 employees of a firefighting maintenance company in Iran Mall shopping Center in Tehran. Using a quantitative quasi-experimental research plan (post-test only control group design) the participants of the study were randomly assigned to treatment (12) and control (12) groups and trained for a week.  Conclusion: The descriptive and interpretive result of the posttest analyses indicated the effectiveness of gamification of the training performed for the employees of the firefighting maintenance company in Iran Mall shopping Center in Tehran. Moreover, the descriptive result of Gamification Acceptance Questionnaire answered by the members of the experimental group after gamified training indicated that all the participants in the experimental group were satisfied with the gamified training course.

Over the last few years, online training courses have had a significant increase in the number of participants. However, most web-based educational systems have drawbacks compared to traditional classrooms. On the one hand, the structure and nature of the courses directly affect the number of active participants,on the other hand, it becomes difficult for teachers to guide students in choosing the appropriate learning resource due to the abundance of online learning resources. Students also find it challenging to decide which educational resources to choose according to their condition. The resource recommender system can be used as a Guide tool for educational resource recommendations to students so that these suggestions are tailored to the preferences and needs of each student. In this paper, it was presented a resource recommender system with the help of Bi-LSTM networks. Utilizing this type of structure involves both long-term and short-term interests of the user and, due to the gradual learning property of the system, supports the learners' behavioral changes. It has more appropriate recommendations with a mean accuracy of 0. 95 and a loss of 0. 19 compared to a similar article

In a research project in the I.R. Iran, Academy of Sciences, 200 Iranian scientific journals in 13 fields of agriculture and natural resources were qualitatively evaluated and scored. The journals were ranked “very high”, “high”, “medial”, “low” or “very low” on the basis of total score using a common statistical method. Accordingly, the distribution rank of the journals among the five above categories was as follows: very high, 5%; high, 27%; medial, 38.5%; low, 22% and very low, 7.5%.In addition to the total score, the journals were also ranked for five indices of “practical usefulness”, “necessity of publication”, and quality of their articles including “up-to-datedness”, “innovativeness”, and “scientific/applied merits”. The journals which attained a score equal or higher than mean plus 1 standard deviation were regarded as “high” ranking. The percentages of journals which ranked “high” by various indices were as follows: 10% in “practical usefulness”, 16.5 % in “necessity of publication”, 15% in “up-to-datedness”, 15.5% in “innovativeness”, and 14.5% in “scientific/applied merits”. Percentages of “high” journals in one or more indices were: 36.5% at least in one index, 20.5% in two indices, 10.5% in three indices, 3.5% in four indices and only 1.5% in all five indices. Thus, these indices, in addition to total score, may be considered when evaluating the journals for their scientific rank.

Accelerated trend of socio-economic developments, emergence of knowledge based economies, increasing growth of research activities by academics and growing dependence of industries on research has led to blooming research requirements and needs. Worldwide web of internet plays a determinant role in providing access to scientific resources. In this research, effectiveness of subscribing electronic scientific resources on the quality and quantity of access to specialized information and science production during 2001 to 2004 in comparison with 1997 to 2000 is investigated through exploring study of related documents and faculty member’s view points. This study has led to develop a qualitative-casual model and improve a holistic model in science production field. The assumptions are examined via hypothesis tests and some constructive suggestions are provided. This research proves the necessity of investment in development of subscribing and sharing domestic, regional, and international electronic scientific resources.

This research project aimed to investigate the scientific performance motivators in agriculture and natural resources by means of measuring attitude approach. The population consisted of 300 agriculture and natural resources faculty members from agricultural and natural resources colleges as well as from the Academy of Sciences of Islamic Republic of Iran who were selected through purposive sampling methodology. The data collection was done using a questionnaire which was validated by a group of experts. Its reliability as measured by Cronbach’s alpha was 0.87. Findings revealed that, graduate students’ proposals, scientists’ curiosity and interests, scientific journals’ trends, society needs, and public organizations’ grants got the first to last ranking orders in selecting research topics. Esteem needs were the most important determinant of scientists’ motivation in agriculture and natural resources researches. Scientists’ satisfaction played a great role in national agricultural development. Also, availability of “research grants and budgets and research materials and tools” recognized to be the most important challenge of agriculture and natural resources researches.

Our analysis of Popper’s philosophy of science focuses on his concepts of tradition and situational analysis. These concepts represent innovative Popperian contributions to a historical and hermeneutical turn in philosophy of science that most of his critics, especially Kuhn, fail to recognize. According to his historical view, Popper conceives sciences as a complex of traditions in continuous transformation and progress by means of rational discussion of theories. In order to grasp the rational progress of scientific traditions, Popper proposes an original method that he calls “situational analysis”. This hermeneutical method seeks to understand the concepts, hypotheses, actions, practices, controversies and products that scientists made to solve problems in their specific historical contexts to improve the truth content of theories. In addition to his historical and hermeneutical turn, Popper also inquired about the social and political conditions for the progress of scientific traditions by means of intersubjective criticism of theories and conjectures. According to him, the rational discussion of ideas requires, as necessary conditions, plurality of ideas, intellectual humility, and freedom of thought and communication that can only exist in an open and democratic society. With these considerations, we may say that in addition to a historical and hermeneutical turn, Popper also contributed to a social and political turn in the philosophy of science

Purpose: Clustering and co-word analysis is a method to reveal relationships and links and illustrate the intellectual structure of a scientific field. This research tries to study the intellectual structure of articles in the field of futures studies in Iran by using the technique of co-word analysis. Method: The current research is a descriptive-analytical development with a scientometric approach. The statistical population is 921 articles retrieved records in the field of futures studies. Findings: The findings showed that articles in the field of futures studies in Iran are often associated with positive growth, and in terms of frequency, the keywords scenario, Islamic Republic, and foresight are the most frequent in futures studies. The findings related to the hierarchical clustering led to the formation of 8 clusters in this field, namely "ICT visions", "geographers who love the future", "knowledge development", " Futuristic higher education", "Future of Religion", "Regional Relations", "Strategic Foresight" and "Heavy Weight of Method". Conclusion: According to the findings of the current research and the high frequency of the keyword scenario, as well as the density and relationships of this keyword with other keywords, it can be concluded that the scenario is the dominant approach in futures studies. Also, according to the resulting clusters, it was observed that these researches have a high variety, but addressing the future in many areas is still neglected.

Background & Purpose: Human resources are one of the most important resources in organizations. In this regard, the identification of effective factors on the productivity of human resources leads to individual and organizational development and performance in this type of organizations. The aim of the research is to measure indicators and factors affecting the productivity of human resources in ACECR.Methodology: The applied-developmental research method is combined in terms of collection and analysis. The statistical population is managers, experts of ACECR. In the qualitative part, the statistical sample was determined using targeted sampling with maximum diversity, and in the quantitative part, using random sampling and Cochran's formula. To analyze the data and information, thematic and quantitative-qualitative methods have been used.Findings: The results show that 5 main themes include: knowledge, skill and system thinking, motivation, commitment, effective planning, competitiveness and development orientation, Scientific and technological indicators were extracted. 8 main themes including: creativity, education, leadership, job satisfaction, organizational culture, organizational structure, job motivation, support were identified. An organization was extracted. The results of structural equation modeling showed that the factors affecting the productivity of human resources have a significant effect on the indicators of productivity of human resources in the ACECR.Conclusion: The presented framework for indicators and factors can be used as a practical guide and executive action for managers and planners in the field of human resources in scientific and technological systems in order to improve the effectiveness of the results and performance of scientific and technological activities.

Agriculture and natural resources journals published by universities throughout Iran are among scientific publication means that publish results of research carried out by various research workers to be finally put at the disposal of those interested, as well as those who somehow are in need of them. The first Iranian journal that stepped into the publication of agricultural scientific work was "Majallehe Falahat" meaning Journal of Agriculture. It started publishing scientific work as from year 1931. Scientific work used to be published earlier too, but not in the status of being affiliated to an institute of higher education. The present research was carried out with the aim of an evaluation of the chronological evolution of journals of scientific research by Iran agricultural colleges. Being after a comparison of the evolutionary trend, followed in the publication of these journals, a survey method in the form of content analysis was employed. The research is of a kind of historical - descriptive one limited to the 72 years of 1931 - 2003. To obtain a schematic view of the journals' evolutionary trend, a chronological trend curve of frequency distribution of each and every journal was taken into account. To make an estimation of the capabilities of the under study journals, their contents of articles were classified into 15 major and a considerable number of minor topics. These were evaluated and analyzed as throughout the life span of the journal. The research means was comprised of a standardized identification framework containing the conventional scientific and publication traits practiced in scientific journals. Two thousand nine hundred and sixty one papers from 9 scientific research journals were scrutinized from a view point of content. Results indicated a more progressive evolutionary trend for the Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences and Technologies. Nevertheless, the Journals "Iranian Journal of Agriculture" with 40 percent of scientific papers related to agriculture, and journal of "Natural Resources" with more than 63 percent of articles with content in natural resources during their life spans, are more entitled to approval, and by a greater number of authors of scientific papers.

It is a must for policy makers to have a good understanding and evaluation of academic activities to be able to develop suitable programs. In this regard, scientometric has played a valuable role in providing the required data, especially the quality as well as the quantity of published articles. This research project aimed to investigate the trend and progress of Iranian scientific articles indexed by SCI (ISI) and CAB abstract databases from 2002 to 2006 in agriculture and natural resources fields, and comparing Iranian articles with 9 selected countries. Reasons for selecting this two databases are that SCI (ISI) with indexing about 4400 journals and calculating citations, has acquisitioned fame in basic sciences especially in chemistry science, and CAB Abstract among 7 prominent databases have most covering of primary agricultural and natural resources journals and moreover indexed scientific journals with English abstract (such as Iranian journals), also indexes about 9000 specialized journals of agriculture and natural resources.Based on the research findings, Iran scientific articles in most fields of agriculture and natural resources have showed considerable growth during 2002 to 2006 years. Soil and Water field has showed the highest growth rate in CAB database with 154 percent average annual growth rate and after that Forestry and Environment, Agricultural Engineering, Food Science and Technology, Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Machinery, and Fisheries, respectively with 108, 96, 77, 71, 68, and 54 percent annual growth rate showed the highest ranks. Total articles of Iran from agriculture and natural resources disciplines in SCI and CAB Abstract’s databases had respectively 30 and 34 percent average annual growth rate. Iran, among 10 selected countries, ranks 8 at SCI and 4 at CAB databases for its amount of published articles, in year 2006.