The potential of food insect-related industries has led to the creation of international markets for related food insect conversion and complementary industries such as food insect food, food insect pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries; Therefore, creating an industry supply chain network is important. For this purpose, the present study, using the library-field method, has extracted the obstacles related to the establishment of the food insect supply network in seven categories: educational, economic, health, infrastructure, cultural, legal and managerial. Then, the extraction barriers were analyzed using the best-worst model (BWM) method. Based on this, three categories (cultural (24%), economic (21%) and legal (12%) were selected as the most important categories and prevented a negative attitude towards the use of insects weighing 0.14 as important ‌ The most obstacle was identified. In order to facilitate the creation of supply chain networks, it is suggested that in addition to the publication of research related to the consumption of edible insects and effective advertising through the national media, this negative mentality be changed. It is also suggested that in the food industry related to edible insects, products be processed in such a way (product design) that its appearance is different from the appearance of insects.

This research aimed to explain the regeneration indicators of worn-out structures of Urmia city. While examining the priority and determining the weight of the indicators in regeneration, the importance and performance of these indicators and the way of pursuing them by the relevant institutions are examined and finally the priority of the indicators are determined. A descriptive-analytical method was used to explain the regeneration of the city's worn-out structures. For this, 24 indicators, obtained from reviewing the literature, theoretical foundations, and field studies, were used. The priority of the indicators in regeneration, and the weight of each were determined. At the end, to see the compatibility value, the best-worst model was used, then the importance/performance method was used to check the way of implementing regeneration indicators. The sample is consisted of 20 people, selected by the snowball sampling method. The results showed that the regeneration indices of worn-out structures are consistent with the appropriate value of 0.039, among which the participation indicator has the best and the population density indicator has the worst preference. Also, the results obtained from the IPA model showed a great contradiction between the importance and functions of regeneration indicators, so that most effort, capital, cost and time for regeneration have been placed on indicators with low priority, while in important indicators, the level of performance is very low. The results showed as well that for the regeneration of worn-out structures in Urmia city, the programs should focus on indicators “individual-group participation”, “improvement of historical attractions”, and “improvement of employment and income”.

Many academic researches concerning “Talent Management” have been done during the last decade. Recruitment and retention of scientific and academic talent personnel are specially so crucial for the universities and the other educational institutes. This article attempts to identify and to rank the factors affecting the recruitment and retention of scientific forces for the universities. Starting with the study of Verhaegen (2005) related to the identification of factors affecting the recruitment and retention of scientific human resources, the researchers struggled, at the first time, to sort and to fit these impact factors of recruitment and retention of talent people to the Iranian universities. Then the researchers tried to rank these factors using the BWM template. The above-mentioned factors have been compared with each other by the experts, once for the recruitment of scientific applicants and once for the retention of academic H.R. The results show that, concerning the recruitment and retention of scientific talent H.R., special attention should be paid to the brand of university and its popularity on the other hand, concerning the retention of academic forces, special attention should be paid to the educational atmosphere of university and it's cultural and value systems.

The increase in the human population, the need to develop human cultural and social spaces on the one hand, and the need to create public spaces with identity, on the other hand, has led to more attention to the topic of cultural identity in public spaces in recent decades. Library Garden, as a public and spatial institution, plays a vital role in the process of cultural and social development in the field of urban space. Books and reading and the tendency to study are some of the characteristics of the development and promotion of the cities. It is possible to advance the cultural and social goals of the society through reading books. With this approach, the present article tries to study the feasibility of creating a library garden in Sabzeh Meydan Square of Zanjan with the approach of promoting the culture of reading. The methodology of this research was a descriptive survey and was applied in terms of purpose. To evaluate the preference of indicators in creating a library garden, the weight of each of them was determined, and finally, the amount of compatibility of the best-worst model has been used to evaluate how to implement indicators in terms of importance/performance and amount of compliance. The results showed that creative designing, with a large difference compared to other factors with a value of 0.14, has been ranked first, and creating this space has been a priority over other indicators. An environment that, like the pleasant qualities of the Persian gardens, enriches the sense of place with its psychological effects, but with a different reading, and can complement the closed spaces of the library in the design by using open spaces and flexibility of collective creative spaces that pave the way for social dynamism and subconscious education. On the distant horizon, using recreational, cultural, and tourist opportunities, according to the goals and vision of the Sabzeh Meydan project, to become a policy to promote the culture of reading and show the importance of rich Iranian culture to tourists. It is expected that the opinions and views of users and their participation will be used to create a place for social activities, the formation of collective memories, and the identification of residents.

The occurrence of land subsidence phenomenon and its potential hazards in the plains of Iran due to the water crisis and drought period has grown significantly in recent years. In this study, the zoning of land subsidence hazard in the Hashtgerd plain was discussed and 19 criteria were selected as factors that influence the subsidence. The mentioned layers were prepared in GIS, weighted based on the best-worst method (BWM) and integrated using the Weighted Overlay Index (WOI). The results of BWM method showed that groundwater abstraction (0.219), the type of geological formation (0.157), the decrease of groundwater level (0.079), and groundwater depth (0.078) are important factors on the potential of subsidence hazard in the study area. Moreover, in order to evaluate the results of this model, the ROC curve was used, which has an accuracy of 90%. The results showed that land subsidence hazard of 10.66% of the study area was in very low category, 38.51% in low category, 31.49% in medium category, 11.66% in high category and 7.69% is in the very high category. According to the results, there are areas with a high probability of subsidence in the central part of Hashtgerd Plain, which requires continuous evaluation, controling, and monitoring of the criteria that affect the situation.

Making a balance between the demand for healthcare services and the response to it requires the operation of new hospitals. But the important problem is finding the optimal for the construction of a hospital. The present research used a mixed method for determining the optimal location for a hospital in District 2 of Tehran. The mixed method is based on the Geospatial Information System (GIS), Best-Worst Method (BWM), and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods, WASPAS, and TOPSIS. Fewer pairwise comparisons in the weighting process of the proposed method have increased the accuracy and reliability of decision-making results. The combination of spatial modeling and ranking has also reduced the search space for suitable places to build a hospital. For this purpose, after determining the appropriate criteria, the weighting process was carried out with BWM, and the spatial layer of each criterion was prepared using GIS. Based on the weighting results, the criteria of distance from existing hospitals and distance from healthcare centers have had the highest and lowest weight, respectively. In the next step, the land suitability map was prepared by combining the spatial layers. Almost 88% of the spatial modeling results corresponded with the realities of the region, and the western half, especially the southwestern part, for the construction of a new hospital, had a higher proportion than other parts. Finally, sites number 2, 5, and 8 among 11 candidate sites were determined as the most optimal places for the construction of a new hospital in the studied area. It is suggested that one or more hospitals should be built in the designated optimal sites in accordance with the population living in areas without optimal access to hospital facilities so that in addition to improving health spatial equity, the cost of citizens’ access to hospitals could be reduced.

In recent years, many studies have been conducted about how to select a sustainable supplier so different methods have been proposed for this rigard in fuzzy and deterministic environments. In this article a new model of BWM improved using Rough Sets Theory for Sustainable Supplier Selection (SSS) in the supply chain. One of the advantages of the proposed method is modeling the uncertainty related to personal evaluations and zeroing the subjective judgment error of the decision maker, using the decision table approach. Also, using the concept of conditional entropy in rough sets, the significance of criteria is calculated and the selection of the best and the worst criterion, as well as making pairwise comparisons in the best-worst method, is done respectively. Using this approach, the inconsistency ratio of the best-worst method becomes zero in all stages. Moreover TOPSIS and SAW methods have been used to determine the weight of suppliers and the results have been compared. To illustrate the model and demonstrate its capability, a real SSS case in Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), was examined by three experts in the automotive industry. The results show that the first supplier (ISACO Parts Supply Company) is the best sustainable supplier.

In this paper, solution space of interval linear programming (ILP) models that is a NP-hard problem, has been considered. In all of the solving methods of the ILP, feasibility condition has been only considered. Best-worst case (BWC) is one of the methods for solving the ILP models. Some of the solutions obtained by the BWC may result in an infeasible space. To guarantee that solution is completely feasible, improved two-step method (ITSM) is proposed. By using a new approach, we introduce a space for solving ILP models in which by two tests, feasibility and optimality of the obtained space has been guaranteed.

The aim of this study was to compare the intensity of pre-competition emotion in athletes with type A and B behavior patterns. Out of 08 wrestlers participating in Iranian national championships (2005), 32 wrestlers were selected as subjects by global Bortner scale. Then, 6 subjects with high scores (mean 6.45±0.3) formed Type A athletes group and 6 with low scores (mean 3.69 ± 0.47) were considered as Type B athletes group. Hanin's Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) model was used to assess the intensity of emotions athletes feel in their best / worst performance. Descriptive data showed that in both groups best performance was associated with a higher level (close to very much) of positive and effective emotion intensity (P+) as well as a lower level (close to little to moderate) of negative and effective emotion intensity (N+). Wilcoxon test showed a significant difference between best and worst performances of Type A group when there was a comparison between the intensity of negative and effective emotion and negative and harmful emotion (P≤0.0). In Type B group, there was a significant difference in athlete's best performance when positive and effective emotion and harmful emotion (P≤0.0). Mann-Whitney U test revealed a significant difference between Type A and B athletes in perceived negative (effective – harmful) emotions in their best / worst performances (P=0.0). This study showed that Type A athletes were more sensitive (i.e. they experienced higher intensities) to the negative effective and negative harmful (N±) emotions in their best/ worst performances when compared with Type B athletes.

Supplier performance can be affected by criteria related to supplier development. Therefore, identifying and prioritizing criteria related to supplier development can be of particular importance for various industries, especially the automotive industry. Identifying and categorizing the criteria related to supplier development in previous studies, but prioritizing them in this article is achieved using the best-worst method. For this purpose, first the matrix of pairwise comparisons of criteria in the four categories of tangible, intangible, relationships and environment was extracted by a survey of experts in the automotive industry and after modeling them based on the best-worst method and solving optimization models, the weights of criteria in the category Quadruple's are obtained. The results show that in the categories of tangible, intangible, relationships and environment, the criteria of quality capability, trust, cooperation and having environmental standards as the best criteria and the ability to deliver, willingness, transparency and participation in the activity Green development's, are the worst criteria. Respectively. Discussions and conclusions as well as suggestions for the automotive industry are based on the weights of criteria in each category. Considering that previous researches and especially internal researches have not addressed the issue of prioritizing criteria related to supplier development, the results of this research can be used for companies active in the Iranian automotive industry in order to allocate resources to important criteria and formulation of supplier relationship management policies will be useful.