جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "ferdowsi university of mashhad" در نشریات گروه "علوم انسانی"

Applying an ethical leadership style yields positive results for organizations. Ethical leadership is related to increasing organizational commitment and altruistic motives in organizations; using an ethical leadership style by the manager and benefiting from the moral environment can bring favorable results for employees and produce an acceptable result in organizational commitment and altruistic motives. Ethical leadership is known as one of the most important factors in the organizational environment that can have a significant impact on the behavior and performance of employees. This type of leadership influences more on employees’ commitment through ethical values and principles, transparency, and fairness. Considering that using this style in any organization can have positive results, this study investigated the impacts of ethical leadership on employees' organizational commitment, considering the mediating role of altruistic motives. Data collection tools included three standard questionnaires on ethical leadership developed by Brown, Trevino, and Harrison (2005), organizational citizenship behavior developed by Padsakoff (2000), and organizational commitment developed by Allen and Meier (1991). At first, the variables of ethical leadership, organizational commitment, and altruistic motives were explained. Then, their dimensions were explored using exploratory factor analysis, and finally using confirmatory factor analysis and by AMOS and SPSS22, the proposed hypotheses were examined. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between the research variables, and all research hypotheses were confirmed. The results showed that ethical leadership significantly affects the organizational commitment and altruistic motives of employees of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Moreover, altruistic motives have a significant impact on the organizational commitment of the employees, and ethical leadership has a significant impact on their commitment through the mediating role of altruistic motives.

The employability of graduates, especially in humanities, is one of the important issues in the field of education, and considering the high volume of admissions in universities, it is very important to investigate this issue. This study aims to examine the relationship between female political science graduates' employability and their engagement in continuing education.Two research metho​dologies were employed: secondary analysis of data obtained from the educational system's alumni information system, with a specific emphasis on graduation rates and gender distribution. Graduates were surveyed via telephone with regard to their employment status, motivations, and reasons for continuing their education.There is a high graduation rate (80%) in political science, with women comprising 53% of graduates and holding the majority of top positions (51%). The telephone survey revealed a 51% employment rate among graduates, with most employed in the public sector on full-time contracts. Financial independence was cited by graduates as the principal incentive for securing employment, while unemployment was primarily attributed to a dearth of opportunities. Continuing education was identified as the primary impetus for these individuals. Regression analysis revealed that employment is influenced by variables such as city residence in Mashhad and involvement in student organizations (both on and off campus), which presumably offer opportunities for skill development.The study suggests a link between continuing education, participation in student organizations, and employability among female political science graduates.

The main objective of this study was to measure the level of acquaintance and usage of Vancouver style in codifying proposals among graduate students of Veterinary Medicine at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Additionally, it aimed to measure their level of acquaintance and usage in different disciplines such as basic sciences, pathobiology, clinical sciences, health, and food.

This was an applied survey study, where data collection tools included a researcher-made questionnaire based on a literature review and the Kahn Proposal Assessment Checklist. The sample consisted of 265 postgraduate and PhD students from the Veterinary Medicine college who were selected using non-proportional stratified sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

There is a significant difference between the degree of familiarity of graduate students with the elements related to the formulation of the proposal of the Vancouver style in different academic trends of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Basic Sciences, Pathobiology, Clinical Sciences, Food and Aquatic Health). There is a significant difference related to the compilation of the proposal of the Vancouver style book in the master's degree / general doctorate and specialized doctorate. There is a significant difference between graduate students' use of the elements related to the proposal development of the Vancouver Vancouver style in different academic disciplines (Basic Sciences, Pathobiology, Clinical Sciences, Food and Aquatic Health). According to Vancouver's style s, there is a significant difference between master's degree / Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D.

Postgraduate students should use the elements of the Vancouver style, but their average score indicates that they did not have a favorable situation in using the elements of the Vancouver style. The results of this research can lead to the awareness of scientific groups and library about the quality level of theses in terms of scientific writing.

Due to being separated from their families and being exposed to new ideas, university students always follow a kind of idealism in political thought and action, which has fostered the formation of student movements in Iran, with student journals being the crystallization of various political opinions within the university. During 2011–2020 in Iran, the approach to the political changed due to the expansion of the Internet and social networks as well as the generational change, leading to new ideas and views. In this respect, this article aims to examine the evolution of representation and of the political among the university students as manifested in their changing attitudes, concerns, and the issues they wrote about. Analyzing the content of the student journals published at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad during 2016–2020, the present research tries to answer the key question of how the political and power relations were represented and evolved in the student journals.

Theoretical framework:

Power is related to technology, so any change in technology can bring about changes in the approach to the state and political institutions as well as in the interpretation and crystallization of power. Technology has been one of the main variables in the evolution of human societies to the degree that a technological revolution can be mapped throughout history. Both mechanical technology and information technology have considerably influenced the sphere of politics, leading to two forms of political crystallization. The present article relied on a model derived from the theory of the information age, in which the political is considered as a variable of technology and is transformed from the official, institutional politics to the everyday politics—that is, the transformation from the Hobbesian conception of power and the political (as in Leviathan) into the Foucauldian disciplinary power and resistance.

This research used the method of content analysis, which offers the techniques to analyze the content of themes, sentences, and press material for different purposes. Content analysis is the categorization of elements of a text in different boxes in such a way that the value of the elements arranged in each box defines the entire text. As a documented method, content analysis uses a quantitative or qualitative method or a mixed method in order to analyze the content of texts, images, documents, editorials, etc., and reveal the visible and hidden messages therein, thus offering new insights. Content analysis has a high level of validity and reliability since the researcher cannot involve personal tendencies in the research—given the availability of the research topic (i.e., documents).

The COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of universities led to a decline in the number of issues, and thus the pages, of the journals published. The present research studied a total of 15000 pages of student journals by applying content analysis to the text and image. The categories and concepts were coded, and the categories as well their subcategories were classified under two general indicators: sociocultural and economic–political. The findings are summarized below.
The political as mechanical, institutional, and hard power:The relevant concepts crystalize the age of mechanical technologies, reflecting the students’ concerns about the institutional issues, the state, and the nation. In other words, the journals reflected the society’s concern about the state, law, elections, or citizenship rights as the vocabulary representing the modern mechanical-cum-technological age.
The political as informational, everyday, and soft power Concerning the sociocultural indicators, the most frequent issues in the journals were gender, the environment, and the students’ demands. Theoretically speaking, they can be associated with the information age characterized by the focus on art, the environment, women, and everyday life as the instances of informational-cum-technological age observed frequently in the student journals. This indicates a departure from the official and governmental politics towards the emphasis on power relations in knowledge, architecture, art, and almost every aspect of everyday life. Such a change of attitude is seen as the transformation of the political from mechanical and governmental mechanisms into quantum and informational mechanisms that are expanding.

In the decade of the information age and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fading of ideologies, the expansion of information technology, and generational changes, the view of politics and its mechanical representation was completely transformed into a quantum and informational representation, with politics manifesting itself as everyday life. The student journals also reflected the change and evolution in the attitudes towards the political. The new generation of students no longer has organizational and institutional demands and reform and revolutionary mechanisms against the government structure. What is evident in the journals is the representation of power as an everyday entity manifested in the demands related to art, the environment, gender, and spaces as well as the request for a better life. The power seems to have moved from the artificial form crystallized in bureaucratic institutions towards the power diffused in everyday life. This change of perspective is evident in the journals led by the students who represent the new generation.
The news, analyses, and writings in the student journals have tangibly moved from political-cum-ideological frameworks towards the everyday life. The conception of politics as the governmental entity with the organizational and bureaucratic structure was transformed into an inclusive conception of power crystallized in everyday life. The previous serious debates used to frame students as critics of power, as intellectuals denying the status quo, and as equipped with the weapon of political parties to get them to oppose politicians. However, in light of the recent changes, the students act as rational and activist citizens, who demand everyday life and happiness. The political is no longer restricted to the government, but diffused in every aspect of life. In a sense, the crystallization of the political has evolved from the mechanical conception of power or macropower to everyday power or micropower.

Students’ incivilities can adversely affect the lecturer-student relationship, hinder the learning-teaching process, and create tension between them. The present study aimed to examine students’ incivilities against lecturers. In this phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews with faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad with a minimum academic rank of associate professor and more than 10 years of work experience. The purposive sampling method was applied until data saturation was reached. Data was analyzed through Colaizzi's method of phenomenological analysis. Lecturers mentioned various behaviors as incivility, including unpunctuality, absenteeism, use of cellphones during class sessions, disrespect for lecturers, classroom irregularities, and lack of engagement in class activities. The reasons for such behaviors were classified under the following categories: lecturers, students, the university, students' family, and the society. Due to adverse consequences of such behaviors, measures should be taken to decrease the incidence of such behaviors among the students so as to create a desirable learning-teaching milieu.

Nowadays, libraries need intrapreneurship to maintain their position and exert a greater impact on society. However, the results of studies show that intrapreneurship in libraries is in an unfavorable situation. Therefore, this study aimed at identifying and prioritizing the barriers to intrapreneurship in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

The present study was applied in purpose and a survey in method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the librarians at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (n=47) and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (n=45). A stratified random sampling procedure was employed to determine the sample size (each university was considered one stratum). Based on Cochran’s sample size formula, the sample size for Ferdowsi University was calculated at 37 and the sample size for Mashhad University of Medical Sciences was calculated at 30. A researcher-generated questionnaire served as the data collection method. Due to the lack of a standardized questionnaire evaluating the barriers to intrapreneurship in libraries, a list of these barriers was prepared using a three-pronged model by reviewing relevant texts and literature as well as interviewing experts. The barriers were divided into three categories of behavioral, structural and contextual. Based on the list, a questionnaire was designed with two sections on a five-value Likert scale: demographic data and behavioral (34 items), structural (19 items), and contextual (19 items) intrapreneurship barriers. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by asking the opinion of the faculty members of the departments of Knowledge and Information Science as well as Management. Using Cronbach Alpha, the questionnaire’s reliability was also calculated and confirmed (82 percent). The data were analyzed using SPSS software for both the descriptive and inferential statistics. 

The results revealed the three categories of structural, behavioral, and contextual intrapreneurship barriers in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. From the point of view of the librarians in both libraries, there was a meaningful difference between the three categories of barriers in terms of significance, indicating that the contextual barriers were the most significant, followed by the structural and behavioral barriers, respectively. Legal, economic, environmental, and technical factors made up the contextual barriers in the libraries of both universities. While economic factors were found to be the most significant contextual barrier in both universities, environmental factors were identified as the least significant ones. The social factors, however, were not among the contextual barriers in both universities. Organizational structure, performance evaluation system, and payment system in the libraries of both universities, and organizational strategy in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences were identified as the intrapreneurship structural barriers. Nevertheless, in no library under study information system was identified as a barrier. The payment system was found to be the most significant intrapreneurship barrier in the libraries of both universities. Performance evaluation system was identified as the least significant structural barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and organizational strategy was identified as the least significant structural barriers in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Organizational culture and personality traits of the staff and managers in the libraries of both universities, as well as organizational conflict in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were not among the intrapreneurship behavioral barriers. However, the staff’s motivation and leadership style in the libraries of both universities, as well as organizational conflict in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences were identified as the intrapreneurship behavioral barriers. While the staff's motivation was the most significant intrapreneurship behavioral barrier in both universities, leadership style was the least significant barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and organizational conflict was the least significant barrier in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

There are numerous internal and external intrapreneurship barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. However, it is important to note that the personality traits of the librarians and managers as well as organizational culture in these libraries are in a good condition as important factors to shape entrepreneurial behavior in an organization and if the intrapreneurship barriers are removed, entrepreneurial activities will be well possible. It was further concluded that although contextual barriers were the most significant intrapreneurship behavioral barriers in these libraries and their removal is out of the control of the mother organization and libraries and require the government to revise policies and activities, the authorities and policy-makers of these two universities could benefit from the findings of this research and adopt suitable policies and strategies to remove these barriers.

Science production through the publication of articles in indexed journals is one of the most important outputs of higher education centers. Today, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of scientific articles is one of the usual methods of evaluating the research activities of universities. The managers of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad have always been concerned about the level of scientific production of their faculty members in order to maintain and improve the scientific status of the university. The publication of academic faculty members' articles in different years can be affected by various factors which identifying them can help the university managers in planning and policy-making in order to achieve the goal of increasing the growth of science production.

There are studies conducted about the influence of effective factors on the production of science, but most are qualitative and limited to the identification of the factors and have not focused on measuring the factors qualitatively.This research is based on a mixed-exploratory approach that seeks to discover the influencing factors in the number of publications of international scientific articles and the effective scenarios for its growth. This research has been done in two qualitative and quantitative phases. In the qualitative phase, using the Delphi method, which identified the key factors influencing the increase in the number of articles published, and in the quantitative phase, using the system dynamics method, which evaluated the impact of each factor and finally determined the best scenarios.

In the first phase of this research, some influential factors in the publication of articles by the faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were identified by reviewing the sources and using the content analysis method. Then, using the Delphi method, the identified factors were available to experts, which included 20 faculty members in the five fields of pure sciences, engineering, agriculture and biological sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities with the highest number of published articles. In the second phase conducted using the system dynamics method, the data related to the factors identified between 2005 and 2019 were collected, and after determining their logical relationships and drawing a causal-circular diagram, their dynamic diagram was used to examine the extent of their influence on each other was drawn.The results obtained from the review of sources and experts' opinions led to the identification of five key factors and variables, which are: increase in the recruitment of doctoral students, increase in the recruitment of master's students, increase in research projects, increase in sabbatical leaves and increase in a grant.In the second phase, after obtaining the dynamic diagram and data analysis in the simulation model, the initial results showed that the average article of each faculty member in the target year (2030) with the increase of the doctoral student variable is 35.36, the master student variable is 31.88, the grant variable is 31.51, The research project variable will be 31.47 and the sabbatical leave variable will be 31.2.But by calculating the cost-effectiveness of each of the variables in order to have a better strategic plan by increasing the budget of each variable by an equal amount, the average articles of each faculty member in the target year was: Ph.D. student 36.62, sabbatical leave 31.77, research project 31.37, master's student 31.19 and grant 31.16

According to the obtained results, three scenarios were suggested as the best scenarios to increase the number of articles by academic staff members at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Increasing the number of doctoral students, both with limited financial resources and with regard to a limited budget, is considered the best scenario for increasing the number of articles.Assuming that the university does not have a policy to increase the ratio of doctoral students to faculty members for any reason, the best scenario after that is to invest in the sabbatical leave variable.Currency restrictions and the absence of faculty members in the university may make the sabbatical leave not among the priorities of the university. Therefore, in this case, the third proposal scenario-based to increase the faculty members’ articles on this research is to increase the number of research projects.

Organizational culture is considered of outmost importance in bringing change into an organization. It has a special influence on knowledge organization and organizational behavior. It helps organizations in enhancing integrated services, resource sharing, organizational learning and organizational creativity. Thus, this study aims at analyzing the status of the organizational culture from the knowledge sharing perspective among university staff and faculty members as an important capital.

This study is categorized as an applied study which has been carried out using two questionnaires. One of these questionnaires dealt with organizational culture and the other dealt with the barriers to knowledge sharing. These questionnaires were distributed among 63 staff and faculty members of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted in analyzing data.

The results show that there is a significant difference among subcultures of the population. It is also evident that bureaucratic, corporate, and flexibility are dominant among the population, respectively. Furthermore, human factors and the leadership are considered among the most important barriers of knowledge sharing.

Since the bureaucratic subculture is predominant among the population and according to the relationships identified between faculty members' subcultures and different barriers to the knowledge sharing, it is imperative to rely more often on leadership potentials and executive agents.

All researchers of Islamic revolution can confirm the big role of Dr. Ali Shariati in Islamic revolution of 1978. One of the notable points in this regard is that he was one of the faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and this made him famous and his Islamic and evolutionary ideas been prevailed among different social strata. His presence in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as a faculty member was the beginning of his ideas among audiences especially the youths and students. Conducting interviews with people who had been with him in the university, the study tried to investigate his ideas and his role in creating movements in Iranian universities and society and how he was accepted as a revolution teacher while he was a university professor.

The purpose of this study is to identify the components and measure the relationships between the dimensions of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. This research is mixed-exploratory in terms of the type of applied purpose and in terms of how to collect data. In the qualitative section, the data collection tool was a semi-structured interview with 13 professors and entrepreneurial ecology experts who were selected by the snowball method. In the quantitative section, using the pairwise comparison questionnaire and the DEMATEL method, The dimensions of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem were determined according to the opinions of experts, and the network of relationships was designed in an integrated way and presented in the form of a model that indicates the intensity of the effect of the dimensions on each other. This research was conducted in the summer of 1399 and based on the findings, 74 components in 9 dimensions of support, education and learning, research and technology, events and communities, cultural and social, rules and regulations, policy, financial resources And institutions, networks, and interactions were identified; Also, based on the results obtained from the Demetel method, it was found that 5 dimensions of education and learning, research and technology, policy, laws and regulations and financial resources as effective dimensions or causes and 4 dimensions of support, events and communities, Cultural and social institutions, networks and interactions are known as effective dimensions or effects in the student entrepreneurship ecosystem of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

Given the importance of entrepreneurship in the development and prosperity of the country's economy, Ecosystem understanding its particular importance. Establishment and development of student entrepreneurship ecosystem as one of the most important factors in turning students into future entrepreneurs, is currently in the spotlight of universities and higher education institutions. After reviewing the researches done on the topics of entrepreneurial ecosystem, limited researches in this field and specifically on the subject of student entrepreneurship ecosystem in Iran and other foreign countries have been done, but this research seeks to identify dimensions and components ‌ Student Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and presenting the Student Entrepreneurship Ecosystem model at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and has been done by content analysis method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview with 13 professors and entrepreneurial ecology experts who were selected from a series of purposive sampling methods. Dimensions and components of entrepreneurial ecosystem (74 sub-categories and 9 main dimensions) were identified from the interviews and developed in the form of a conceptual model of content analysis. Based on the findings of the study, the dimensions of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem in this study from the perspective of the interviewees are: support and Protection, education and learning, research and technology, events and communities, policy-making, cultural and Social, laws and regulations, financial resources, institutions, networks and interactions.

The most important problems of innovative companies is about business capabilities and skills especially for students and university graduates who have less cognition with the business environment because of education. these abilities can be cal[1]led business habitus which is gradually internalized in the individual and be a part of his behavior and habits. it is A practical guide for the individual who acted in the field of business and is different among people. business habitus assessment determines whether it is strong or weak in quantitative form and helps to economic actors to strengthen it.

Research methods is a description of the survey type. statistical community of research is all active members of technology incubator and knowledge-based companies of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. criteria for selecting companies is based on the names in the technology incubatorthat were stationed in technology incubator. after determining the number of companies(about 100 companies) and its members(relatively about 400 people) sample size was selected 204 of people through the Cochran's formula.  sampling method was simple random with no substitute that were selected from the list of companies. for gather information used from a researcher-made questionnaire to measure business habitus in four dimensions of market orientation, social interaction, innovation and business plan presentation. the reliability of the indicators is checked through Cronbach's alpha for items of business habitus dimension. for structural validity used from factor analysis by structural equation method to increase the validity of content used from comments of professors, experts and company managers.

Mean and standard deviation of the business habitus index score of the members of the university's growth and knowledge-based companies is intermediate. average innovation variable is lower of other dimensions of habitus. the other three dimensions are almost equal. confirmatory factor analysis of each dimension of the index has been performed and the final habitus business model based on structural equations it shows increases business habitus when increase all four dimensions of innovation, social interactions in business, market orientation and business plan and have a high score.

According to the results business habitus Index in terms of dimensions and importance it's the same with the expectation that is from a capable person in the business environment and checked in various researches. the final strategy of business habitus formation can be described that is included capability of market orientation with proper knowledge of the market in order to evaluate how products or services enter the market based on technical knowledge, ability to interact socially in business using high public relations in business and economic communications, ability to innovate and strengthen the dimension of innovation in all parts of the production process of the company's products and services, the ability to commercialize means the ability to present appropriate and practical ideas and the ability to have the knowledge to turn an idea into a final product.

One of the main components and in fact the basic element of research through which the researcher explains the research problem is "problem expression”. Due to the lack of a correct definition of "problem expression" and its confusion with other components of research, such as the title, subject and main question of the research, it is often ignored in historical research. This problem can be mostly attributed to the inadequacy and incorrect definition of the basic concepts of research in the methodological research texts, in particular, historical research that its reflection can be seen in the dissertations of history students. This study seeks to examine the pathology of lack of transparency or deficiency in the concept of "problem expression" in dissertations and historical researches. The findings of this research show that due to the lack of correct definition of “problem” in the methodological research texts in history, has led to serious shortcomings in academic dissertations in the field of history. In this research, , however, it has been tried , based on the library resources , dissertations collection (GANJ) from IRANDOC site and using descriptive-analytical method as well as statistical method to analyze the Pathology of “Problem expression” in historical research by case study of history dissertations of Ferdowsi University graduate master degree students.

The purpose of this study was to identify the resources, abilities, and capabilities of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad using the resource-based approach to formulate the strategy and development of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad by using a Meta swot technique. The purpose of this research is applied and the method is descriptive-survey. The data and information in the first two sections are documented through library and library study followed by field and opinion polls of 10 current, former and current professors, experts and managers in the field of sport in Mashhad, selected by purposeful method, It is provided. The results indicate that good quality indoor sports facilities and a sufficient number of indoor and outdoor sports facilities are among the most important resources, abilities, and capabilities of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The per capita or low budget of academic sport and the talents in the academic sport have the greatest impact on the development of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The most important competitors of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad are Tehran University, Kharazmi University and the Mazandaran University of Technology respectively.

The purpose of this paper is investigating the effectiveness of the two current Bachelor Architecture’s Curricula (presented by the University of Tehran and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) based on the views of graduates. ​The main question examines the degree of satisfaction of graduates with the quantity and quality of three main areas of courses including "design", "history and theoretical foundations" and "building technology".

To achieve the purpose of the research, a qualitative approach and a questionnaire and semi-structured interview methods were used. The statistical population of the study consist of 76 graduates in architecture, from 18 universities in the country, 1999 to 2014.

According to the results, in terms of quantity, the fields of "design" and "construction technology" have the highest (with a high score of 27.8%) and the lowest (with a high score of 24.04%) scores, respectively, and the "history and theoretical foundations" field is in the middle, having a high score of 24.75%. In terms of quality, the "design" field with a score of 32.65%, has the highest degree of desirability, and the fields of "construction technology" and "history and theoretical foundations" with scores of 18.42 and 15.95%, respectively, are the next. Therefore, the highest score of quantity and quality together, is gained by the courses in the field of "design", and the score of the other two fields is almost similar to each other.

The results showed that there are the highest and lowest levels of satisfaction in the area of "architectural design" and "building technology", respectively. Based on the revelation of the Null curriculum as the missed subjects in the courses “Application of Computer in Architectural Design", "Cartography" and "Building Cost Estimation", their removal from the curriculum of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is open to question. But it seems that the transfer of the "Historic Conservation" course from the main courses to the optional one in this curriculum was a right decision. ​This study reveals that regardless of which curricula is implemented, it is necessary to change the approach in architectural education and integrate the teaching of the three mentioned areas to improve the quality

Training specialized human resource, their employment and using their proficiency, are the main concern of higher educational system. But sometimes there is not balance between the number of alumnus and their suitable job or alumnus aren’t trained as it should be.so, it’s universities’ duty to follow up and explore their educational adequacy and quality. This article assessed the situation of alumnus of Linguistics educational group of Ferdowsi university of Mashhad during a decade (2007-2017). For the first step, employed alumnus was detected, then for telephone interview, 30 persons were selected among them by accident. In addition, a researcher made questionnaire was used to survey the professors of Linguistics department of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Based on the results 83 percent of alumnus had job. This result put Linguistics educational group in a good situation among other fields of study. Most of the people had chosen their major consciously. There wasn’t a meaningful difference between sex of participants and the amount of employment. Relation between job and field of study was 80 percent, but relation between subjects of theses and employment was 33 and just 53 percent of participants declared that their jobs are in accordance with the content of their subjects. Results of professors’ questionnaire showed that they are not pleasant with the current situation and believe that it is necessary to have some changes in taking students.  Organizing students’ theses in more practical issues, is so essential too.

Attempting to improve the effective and efficient usage of various resources and facilities such as labor, capital, energy, plants, equipments of the mission, management and main purpose of organizations and institutions’ managers. F It is a descriptive- comparative research. In terms of purpose, it is applied, while in terms of the data collection methodology, it is of the field study type. The statistical sample is consisted of 19547 students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1392-93 of whom 385 individuals were selected as the research representatives according to Morgan table and simple random sampling method. In order to perform data collection, two questionnaires were used, i.e. the investigation of the features of workers sports facilities standard questionnaire (1388) and the description of the productivity status of workers sports facilities (1388). Descriptive statistical tests such as mean, standard deviation and mean score were used in order to analyze the research data, while Friedman statistical test was used for ranking the variables. Results showed that in general, the Ferdowsi University’s gyms, cafes and spectators’ seats had the highest ranks in comparison with other features. In addition, the conditions of parquets, surfaces and walls had the lowest mean ranking. In terms of productivity, results indicated that the best and the weakest conditions are the labor productivity and the users’ facilities productivity, respectively. According to the number of the students of this university,

Academic library services are important to all students. However, research shows that international students face some barriers in utilizing library resources and facilities. This study seeks the viewpoints of international students and librarians at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in this regard

The Cochran formula using simple random sampling method was employed to determine. Each the two groups of 36 library staff and 295 students filled one of the two researcher developed questionnaires,. Validity was assessed by experts and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha.

The international students' satisfaction with the services was high, except with regard to the audio- visual materials (CDs, etc.). Librarians also viewed the services in line with the needs of international students. There is also a significant difference between the librarians and international students' perception of the differences between international and native students.

The Libraries of Ferdowsi University should provide different services to their international students, and librarians should pay attention to the differences between international students and native students.

Libraries need to design websites to attract users to use the website and have interactive and valuable online experiences. One way to encourage users to use the library website is to apply the principles of persuasive design. Persuasive technology utilizing persuasive techniques to design products such as websites tries to positively influence people, thereby changing the attitude and behavior of a person to perform a particular action, such as using a website and encouraging users to perform a certain action. Libraries can use persuasion techniques to motivate users to interact with the library and to benefit from the services and information available through the library. Hence the identifying the extent of applying persuasive design criteria in the central library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad was one of the study purposes. Furthermore, the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of persuasive design criteriain persuading the users to use the library website.

This study was an applied research, and its methodology was combination of the evaluation and survey. Research population consisted of MA students at Ferdowsi university of Mashhad belonging to four disciplines i.e., Basic Sciences, Humanities, Engineering, and Agriculture. The desired sample was selected based on Krejcie and Morgan’s sample size table through stratified random sampling (356 persons). The required data were collected by a check list and a researcher-made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the check list and the questionnaire was confirmed. The gathered data were analyzed through the SPSS using descriptive (i.e., frequency, percent, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (i.e., one sample t-test).

For eight persuasive design criteria (i.e., credibility, privacy, personalization, attractiveness, solicitation, priming, commitment and ascendency), 107 elements were identified, of which 58 percent had been applied in the library website. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the website designers have payed the most attention to the credibility criterion and the least attention to the personalization criterion. The role of persuasive design criteria in persuading the users to use the library website was more than average. According to the results, loading speed and access to the content, user’s personal information privacy, online chat with librarians, selecting the mode of delivering the searched information, a well-organized interface, simple menus and icons, internal search engine, and existence of a section for the library new books were the most persuasive elements of the library website from the users' perspectives. 

This is one of the rare studies in the field of persuasive design in libraries. The results can be used by the librarians and the website designers to design this website more efficiently and effectively. The Librarians can make the website more user-friendly and persuade the users to use the website and the library services.

In order to design user-friendly information retrieval systems, it is important to pay attention to characteristics of users. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the role of demographic variables of users during their search in search engines.

This is an applied study in terms of purpose, which was done by the evaluation method. To conduct the research, firstly, 32 subject headings were selected from the "Persian Subject Headings" and simulated work tasks were developed based on the selected subject headings with the cooperation of three experts in knowledge and information science. Then, according to the characteristics of the population, such as gender, grade and field of study, age and residential area of the students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 192 people were selected as sample members. The research form was then given to them, which consisted of three sections: demographic information, simulated work tasks, and a place to record relevant links. They were then asked to study the simulated work tasks that they had developed based on the selected subject headings from the Persian Subject headings, and search in Google, Parsijoo, Rismoon, and Yooz search engines in Persian language, and then to record the relevant URLs in the given form. Finally, based on the recorded URLs, the relevance score of the students' retrieved results was calculated according to the Jaccard index. To determine the validity of the research tools, the opinions of faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were asked as well as the relevant literature was reviewed. Pearson test was also used to determine the reliability of the study, which confirmed the reliability of the study with a correlation coefficient of 0.725.

The findings indicated that the FUM students’ judgement relevance scores with a 95% confidence level were about 0/36 to 0/42. Furthermore, there were significant differences between the students' judgement relevance scores in terms of their educational levels, age groups and their residential areas, while there were no differences between the student's judgement relevance scores in terms of gender and academic field.

It can be said that paying attention to both personalization and customization in designing information retrieval systems will satisfy users. Thus, this paper finally directs the attention of information managers and designers of information retrieval systems to this fact that in designing information systems, more attention must be paid to the three demographic variables, namely education levels, age groups, and residential areas.