International Journal of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science
Volume:5 Issue: 3, Summer 2016

Wahhabism is a movement emerged in the 4th century by Ahmad ibnTaymiyyah, revived and developed during the 8th century by Muhammad ibnAbd al-Wahhab. Receiving support from western countries, this movement was officially recognized in Saudi Arabia in the 12th century. Today, Wahhabism has begun its activities in Khuzestan province with the aim of provoking ethnic division and weakening beliefs of the Arabs of this region. Unfortunately, lack of sufficient means of comfort and existenceof cultural gaps along with poor religious and ideological education have led to the recruitment of needy people and addicts by this sect. Although very few people are recruited to Wahhabism, this political-ideological movement shouldn’t be underestimated and effective measures must be adopted for countering Wahhabi sect. Considering the activities of Wahhabism during the recent years in Khuzestan province, this paper examines propagation methods ofWahhabism and presents some recommendations for solving this problem in the province.

The barrier to the use of e -banking and the problem of security of transactions is often mentioned to explain the reluctance to the acceptance of this new technology wave. The objective of this research is to study the security problem and its effect on the use of e -banking. Therefore a qualitative study was developed in the Tunisian context with business leaders in order to understand the use of e-banking and its announced that the security risk is the inhibitor of the acceptance of this technology.

Considering the current magnificent increase in the incidence of the restatements in capital market, encourage the researchers to study the causes and consequences of restatements. However, among of these factors, the role of corporate governance mechanism attracted more attention. This paper seeks to examine the relationship between of the corporate governance and the financial restatement in the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). This study evaluates the effects of various independent variables on the financial restatement using a logistic regression analysis approach for 111 companies over a 10 year period (2001-2010). The results indicate that the boards of director independent and auditor tenure are negative significant with financial restatements. Also, the results show that the audit type and the change number of the boards of director are associated with financial restatements positively. However, the empirical evidence indicates that CEO change, CEO tenure, institutional ownership, and the size of the boards of director do not have significant impact on the likelihood of financial restatement. Overall, the results presented in the paper indicate that the week corporate governance can increase financial restatement and decrease financial statement quality probability.

In order to investigate the relationship between self-differentiation and avoidance/ diffuse identity style and informational identity styles in adolescents, 50 adolescents were chosen in Tabriz and Berzonsky identity style questionnaire and Skowron and Friedlander self-differentiation questionnaire were responded. Data obtained were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficiency and stepwise multiple regression. Analysis of the results showed there is direct relationship between self-differentiation components (emotional reactivity, My status, emotional cut off and mingling with others), and informational identity style and there is reverse relationship between self-differentiation components and avoidance/ diffuse identity style. According to the results, the there is the possibility of practical utilization of research findings in the field of counseling interventions.

Recent research has indicated that children suffering from specific learning disorders not only encounter a tragic fact of continuous separation in the educational system and in their classes but also face the peril of losing their self-confidence. Hence, such disorders may have a negative impact on children’s mental health. These children often experience loneliness and inferiority complex, communication problems, lack of mental health, postponement of development, psychological problems as well as educational disimprovements. Therefore, such mental-educational problems along with other disorders form a cluster of mishaps in which children may not be able to meet their most superficial needs.

Method & Material: 

The current research has been designed based on the case study model  and approximate reasoning approach  as an alternative for traditional approaches. The participant of the study is a second-grade pupil who had the primary symptoms of learning disorders in mathematics in Zakariaye Razi Primary School in Mashhad. He was, then, introduced to Baharestan Center of Learning Disorders in Mashhad. The necessary data were collected according to the Wexler Test of Children WISC-R, Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test, Frastig Perceptive-Visual Discrimination Test, Wapmann Auditory Discrimination Test, Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Tests and Laterality Test. Since the data of the current research were based on the individual pupil, the researcher utilized Rood-Kafman software to analyze them.

The findings of the study indicate that the subject, in the diagnosis test phase, manifested as having operations in line with the pattern of the symbols of math disorder. Despite the fact that he was in the second grade, but the pupil did not meet the objective functions in test operations. Hence, he encountered cognitive obstacles encountered in the classification operations. With respect to the comparison of pre-test - post-test, the study found that he not only needed visual-motor integration and visual fixation skills but also he required spatial-visual skills and strengthening of the calculation skill.

In accordance with the mathematical learning of Piaget’s (1998) hierarchy system, the pupil under study will reach the sufficient cognitive scale in solving math problems.

One of the important issues in regional economic literature is external economies resulting from economic specialisation. Regional economists consider economic specialisation as an effective factor of regional development. Therefore, the present study analyzes the effect of the industry economic specialisation on industrial employment in Golestan Province. To do this, Statistical data of the 12 industrial sub-sectors during 2001 - 2010 applied and investigated the effect of factors affecting the industrial employment including the level of economic specialisation of industries using panel data econometrics model. The findings of the model showed the positive effect of economic specialisation on the industrial employment.

Existence of committed and professional manpower in any organization will reduce absenteeism, delays and displacements; moreover, it will lead to a significant increase in organizational performance, employee mental vitality, achieving organizational and individual goals. Considering the importance of this issue in organizations, the aim of this study is to investigate the impact of professional commitment on organizational commitment dimensions of Qavamin bank employees in Khorasan Razavi province. In the present study, the required information was collected through a questionnaire. Statistical sample of study is Qavamin bank employees in the cities of Mashhad and Neyshabour that are selected randomly. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient.  In the present study, structural equations are used to examine the research hypotheses; furthermore, LISREL and SPSS software were used to analyze data. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship between professional commitment and organizational commitment.

According to the young population and economic conditions prevailing in Iran in recent years, employment has been a major objective of economic policies. One of the most important policies is to promote economic cooperation in the share of micro enterprises on  one hand, and with its productive capacity it could increase economic power which helps reduce unemployment by creating jobs in the state on the other hand. Therefore, in this study, with the focus on employment as important activities, the role of the cooperative sector in a changing economic situation has been studied. Also, in order to evaluate their relative performance in achieving this goal the data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used.

Appearance of communication revolution and emergence of such phenomena as electronic data exchange, electronic commerce and electronic money exchange resulting from exploiting tools of communication revolution in inter-organizational transactions in supply chain, prepare new grounds for economic activities of commercial and non-commercial entities. Also in service market, increasing competition led to necessity of employing new channels for providing services. Present research tried to address the effect of perceived service quality on customers’ satisfaction, trust and loyalty using SERVQUAL model. To this end, after an introduction to general framework of the study, initially data were collected through library and field methods using descriptive-field methodology. Field data were gathered using a questionnaire with 28 items distributed to statistical population. Statistical population comprised all customers of Saderat Bank of Arak city. Completed questionnaires were analyzed using t-student statistic and LISREL software. Data analysis showed that website ease of use, website design and also customization of website had direct positive effect on satisfaction of bank customers.

Word-of-mouth is playing an important role in marketing to the extent that some of marketers believe that this form of advertising is among the most effective and efficient ones. With respect to importance of this issue and significant role of word-of-mouth in today marketing it seems necessary to manage this phenomenon in an effective way and exploit its benefits with taking appropriate actions. In present research it was tried to identify factors influencing spread of online word-of-mouth. To this end, six hypotheses were formulated. After introducing general framework of present descriptive research, data were collected using library and field methods. In order to collect data using field study, a questionnaire with 21 items was developed and distributed to statistical population of the research. The mentioned statistical population comprised of customers with experience of purchasing services from Iran Insurance Company in Khuzestan Province. Then completed questionnaires were analyzed using student’s t-test with software LISREL. Results showed that knowledge self-efficacy, sense of belonging and enjoyment of helping others influenced internet word-of-mouth.