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Jihadi culture is a progressive and non-static culture in Islamic society, and if realized, it can remove obstacles to the revolution, the Islamic system, and society. To realize this, its desirable indicators must be evaluated and, after being identified, put into practice. The most important indicators of jihadi culture include insight, timely action, sincerity, perseverance, duty-orientedness, and obedience to the leadership. This article has tried to examine these indicators by emphasizing the orders of the Supreme Leader and using a "qualitative" method. The purpose of this research is to identify the indicators effective in the development of revolutionary institutions based on jihadi culture so that it can become a model for social behavior in the Islamic system, especially in the political sector. For example, if the jihadi culture model enters the field of developing revolutionary institutions, the indicators of political culture and public participation will grow significantly. As a result, the aforementioned indicators, which are among the most important indicators of jihadi culture in the development of revolutionary institutions, can help the Islamic system and society reach the desired level.

The purpose of this paper is to address the significant challenge of optimizing the placement of digital television signal booster towers to ensure quality coverage and equitable access to high-quality media services in today’s digital landscape. This paper introduces a novel multi-criteria decision-making method, named Evaluation based on Distance from Ideal Solution (EDIS), inspired by the EDAS method, aimed at enhancing decision-making processes in this context.

The EDIS method is utilized for the optimal placement of digital television signal booster towers. The method considers various cost and benefit criteria, including annual maintenance cost, tower price, signal sensitivity and boosting power, unmet quality standards, operator complexity level, and interference resistance, to determine the most suitable locations for tower placement.

The application of the EDIS method to a real-world case study demonstrates significant improvements in decision-making accuracy and efficiency over existing methods, offering enhanced support for optimal decision-making in the placement of digital television signal booster towers.

Originality/Value: 

The proposed EDIS method presents a novel multi-criteria decision-making tool that combines innovative features with advanced optimization capabilities. It contributes significant scientific value to the field by providing an effective solution for optimizing the location of digital television signal booster towers, thereby enhancing decision-making processes in this domain.

Jihadi culture is a set of positive characteristics and values ​​of management and Jihadi managers arising from the behavior and relationships of employees, which has played a role of a model and example for society, administrative behavior, and executive and managerial procedures in other fields and organizations; in such a way that one of the functions and expectations that have been and is considered from the existence of Jihadi in the minds and thoughts of a large part of the officials and policymakers of the administrative system is the use of successful Jihadi methods in realizing administrative changes. It should be said that Jihadi culture is a general concept, examples of which include religion-centeredness, guardianship, sacrifice and self-sacrifice, populism, value-orientedness, flexibility, self-confidence, dynamism, and mission-orientedness. Jihadi culture is an Islamic phenomenon that has found an opportunity to manifest itself again for more than two decades in the history of Islam and Iran, with the two factors of the emergence of the background of poverty and deprivation and the occurrence of the great Islamic revolution led by Imam Khomeini (RA), with the mission of regional development in the rural and nomadic areas, and with the emergence of the soldiers of the late Imam. It has found an opportunity to manifest itself again for more than two decades in the history of Islam and Iran. It has presented a new framework in organizational culture by emphasizing characteristics such as religious orientation, guardianship-centeredness, flexibility, dynamism, self-belief, populism,

The purpose of this research is to provide a hybrid and improved version of one of the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) methods, which is a more useful tool for decision support due to the constructive interaction with the decision-maker.

For this purpose, a linear programming problem with weight restriction and discrimination intensity functions was used to present the improved WASPAS method, and thus, when the explicit weight for the indicators was not taken from the decision maker, it was possible to rank the options.

The results of comparing the use of the proposed method with the WASPAS method showed that this method has a good capability for use in multi-criteria decision making problems and in this particular issue, the results of using this method showed that in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, the supportive leadership style had the highest rank among the leadership styles, followed by the transactional leadership, participatory, transformational and was placed authoritative.

Originality/Value: 

In this study, the improved WASPAS method was presented to determine the priority and weight of criteria in solving MADM problems and to determine the organizational leadership style in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Today, despite many benefits of cloud computing technology, including cost savings, agility, increased flexibility and scalability the issue of information security is the main obstacle to the tendency of organizations towards cloud computing. In addition to infrastructure issues and political factors in Iran, there are many security risks in cloud computing technology. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to extract and rank these security risks. In this regard, by studying the theoretical foundations related to the research topic, these factors are extracted and categorized according to the opinion of experts, and then by designing questionnaires of different pairwise comparisons, collecting comments and combining different weighting methods based on pairwise comparisons by Copeland aggregation method, security risks were ranked. In this ranking, data privacy risk was the first priority of cloud computing security risks.

Data envelopment analysis is a linear programming-based approach used to evaluate the relative performance of decision making units (DMU's) that perform the same tasks with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Due to the optimistic view of the DEA in evaluating the performance of homogeneous decision making units, multiple units with a maximum relative efficiency score (equal to unit) are highly likely. Therefore, ranking models were presented to distinguish between efficient units. Cross efficiency evaluation is one of the most useful tools for ranking DMUs in data envelopment analysis. This model has two major flaws in implementation. First, it yields different results in the presence of optimal alternatives; and second, there is no compelling reason to use the arithmetic mean to integrate the cross-performance matrix results. In this paper, a new approach, inspired by the preferential voting process and the idea proposed in the TOPSIS method, is presented to combine cross-performance results in the presence of undesirable outputs. The results are then used to rank suppliers in the presence of undesirable outputs.

The current study investigates the effect of hyperopic orthokeratology lenses (Boston XO) in correction of presbyopia based on the Monovision technique.

 This is a clinical trial study. Eleven individuals (have been recruited for this study, after meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The initial examinations were carried out for ordering the contact lenses.  After complete training of how to use the contact lens, fluorescein pattern was evaluated for centrality and proper fitting. Participants were asked to wear the lens for seven nights on the non-dominant eye. In the morning of 1th and 7th days, one hour after the lens removal, examinations were repeated. We conducted the initial examination and repeated them in day one and day seven after use of the lens and after one week wash out, in day fourteen. The changes in refraction, visual acuity, corneal thickness and corneal curvature were evaluated.Analysis was performed using the analysis method of variance with duplicate measurement and Bonferroni follow-up test at the error level of 5% with use of SPSS version 24.

Statistical population of this study was include of people between 43-50 years old, without any problem in visual acuity for distance that need correction for near. In tested eye, central thickness of the cornea was increased in 1th and 7th day. Also the central curvature were steeper and the peripheral curvature were flatter and the amount of myopia were increased. These changes were significant in 1th and 7th days and return to initial amount in 14th day.

Hyperopic orthokeratology lenses (Boston Xo) could be considered as an option for correction of presbyopia in monovision technique.

In this study, twenty indicators, technical and infrastructural features of social Medias were extracted through interaction with cyberspace experts and computer experts and specialists using Delphi method. Then seventeen popular social Medias were examined and the details of the social Medias in the documented indicators were examined. Also, a new hybrid ranking method called voting TOPSIS was designed by combining the two methods of TOPSIS and preferential voting model, and finally, the method designed for ranking the seventeen social Medias was used. Findings obtained in this study show that Facebook, Telegram, Gap, Soroush and iGap social Medias have been ranked first to fifth in terms of providing technical and infrastructure facilities, respectively. In this study, focusing on native social medias, strategies to improve the position of these social medias are presented, which can lead to the development of an appropriate roadmap to achieve an acceptable share among applicants in Iran

The purpose of this study was to determine the comprehensive performance evaluation criteria to improve the performance evaluation system of employees using a new model of data envelopment analysis based on 360-degree evaluation for employee ranking.

In this study, first, performance evaluation criteria were identified by studying the research background. Questionnaires designed based on the opinions of twenty-five staff of the organization, three senior managers, ten professors with university experience and ten active and selected students of the university (a total of 48 people in a 360-degree structure) are completed and then using A new model of designed data envelopment analysis, employee ranking, was performed. Twelve performance evaluation indicators extracted from the research background by experts in four categories with the titles of service compensation system in the first category; Job security, perceived organizational justice, perceived organizational support, and physical working conditions in the second category; Job characteristics, job clarity and ability of employees in the third category and job feedback, job stress, organizational citizen behavior and motivation in the fourth category were ranked and documented using a linear optimization model based on the goal programming and policy. Data envelopment analysis resulted in a complete ranking for the staff of a university unit with 25 staff members.

Interpretation and analysis of structured results obtained from the use of data envelopment analysis policy based on 360-degree evaluation can be the basis for improving human resources and continuing periodic evaluation to continuously improve employee performance in the organization.

Originality/Value:

The present study can help their evaluations by using various indicators comprehensively as well as 360-degree approach and considering the external and internal challenges of the organization.

It is noteworthy that the presence of the Celebrities in politics and Instagram pages provides the conditions to communicate directly with the audience. The benefits of celebrity from Instagram have to be creative and intelligent. According to Giddens' theory, creativity emerges with two factors of agency and structure

The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between the creativity of celebrities and the public policy process.

In order to understand the relationship between agency and structure in the emergence of Celebrities creativity, it is highly unlikely that a survey of 384 instagram users following the Celebrities pages would be possible.

Respondents say there is an inverse relationship between the agency of the Celebrities and the perceived political problem. The structure and perception of the political problem is reversed, meaning that if the activity of political parties, media, political and intellectual elite decreases, and the presence of Celebrities will increase. But there is no relationship between Creativity in Problem Perception and Solution. At the law implementation stage in the policymaking process, there is a relationship between the effectiveness of Celebrities and law implement. There is a direct relationship between social structure and law implement. The more the function of parties, the media, the political and intellectual elites are used, the more the Celebrities as symbolic capital and the more the tendency of the Celebrities. There is also no correlation between the creativity of the Celebrities and the evaluation of law enforcement

In times of crisis, take advantage of the influence of celebrities and social networks to educate people on how to deal with it and how to participate properly. Social networks were active during of the spread or prevalence of COVID 19. Under such circumstances, it is so sensitive to educate people and engage them purposefully that everything becomes determinant or may be risky. It was used in the present study media functionalism theory and attractiveness model as source credit. The sample of the present study is 386 Instagram users who follow the pages of celebrities and to measure variables, was used a researcher-made questionnaire and a regression test to test the hypotheses.

According to the respondents, celebrities are attractive and update their pages by presenting new content. They have the greatest impact on the variable of learning on the component of changing people's attitudes by 63% and they have the least impact on changing people's behavior by 16 percent. In the Coronavirus Crisis, celebrities have the greatest impact on the variable of people's participation in the voluntary participation of people to comply with health protocols to combat the prevalence of COVID 19 disease, at a rate of 39% and they have the least impact on process activity in decision making by 25%. Therefore, celebrities play an effective role as a symbolic asset in crisis management by involving the voluntary participation of the people in the developed programs and education with the greatest factor in changing attitudes.

Identifying regional investment priorities is one of the best ways to exploit the potential of regions, which allows for the correct management of resources. The wide and diverse range of industries and the constraints on providing the resources needed for investment have made investing prioritization a necessity. The main issue of this paper is to examine the investment priorities in the auto parts manufacturing industry in Semnan province with criteria derived from the resistance economy. Semnan province due to its convenient geographical location (proximity to the location of automotive companies) and high production value has become the fifth hub of the country's auto parts industry and has a good capacity for future investments.

Theoretical framework:

Spatial planning, land use planning and distribution of economic activities and resources need to take into account the cultural, political, and economic conditions of the country. After the Islamic Revolution, Iran has always been subject to sanctions and political, economic and social pressures, and the government's strategy to deal with such pressures has been the policies and strategies of the resistance economy. It is natural that the issue of land management specially determining investment priorities, should follow such policies.Semnan Auto Parts Group has 105 companies that are active in the field of production of auto accessories, parts and assemblies, and the transportation industry. The employment level of these units is over 6000 people who have more than 95% of the employment share of the cluster. Despite the great importance of auto parts industries in Semnan province, the development and expansion of these industries are facing important problems, the most important part of which is the lack of clear investment priorities in Semnan province. Setting these priorities plays an important role in improving efficiency and productivity, reducing costs, and completing the cluster chains of this area of ​​the province's industry.The resistance economy has components that need to be considered in determining investment priorities in Semnan province. These components are: being knowledge-based, being based on the private sector, being justice-oriented, endogenous, extroverted, and making the country resilient to threats. Prioritization of investment in the auto parts industry in Semnan province should be done in a way that increases the role of knowledge-based industries, an important part of this investment should be done by the private sector, priority should be given to industries that take the country out of corruption, rent and monopoly And make the best use of domestic resources, at the same time make good use of foreign capacities and markets, and finally make the country resilient to shocks and sanctions.

The method used to achieve the goal of this research is the Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process (VAHP) that allows the simultaneous use of multiple criteria and can therefore include a set of components of the resistance economics. This method needs 6 Steps: 1) Selecting the prioritization criterion. 2) Configuring the hierarchy of criteria. 3) Determining the priority and ranking of criteria. 4) Calculating weights (Noguchi ranking). 5) Determining the production methods and mechanisms of each. 6) Set priorities by using exports opinion.

Data analysis from expert opinions using the above method shows the production of 1) electronic and electrical parts, 2) casting and machining, 3) heat treatment, 4) cold and hot forging and 5) mechanical and electromechanical parts, respectively, are the 5 main investment priorities in the auto parts industry in Semnan province. In determining these priorities, the criterion of knowledge-based economy and endogeneity has the highest weight.

Conclusions and suggestions:

This article identified investment priorities in the auto parts industry in Semnan province based on the components of a resistance economy. Furthermore, this research can be used for future research in three aspects. The first aspect is related to the research method that used VAHP. This research method, using the Noguchi scoring approach, has simplified the possibility of measuring priorities in different sectors, and for this reason, researchers are suggested to use this method and its benefits. The second aspect of this research is the subject of the automotive industry in Iran. This study examined the investment priorities in the auto parts industry and determined which of these products could be prioritized. The achievements of this research can be used as a presupposition of many other pieces of research and can examine issues such as prioritizing the purchase of raw materials, creating industrial clusters related to the automotive industry in the province and also the advantages of establishing an automotive industry in the province. The third aspect of this research is the link between prioritization and components of resistance economics that can be used as a basis for other research.