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Aims: Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction (PS) is one of the most essential factors in improving the quality of healthcare systems. The aim of this study is to determine the norms and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Najmiyeh Outpatients Satisfaction Questionnaire (NOSQ). Methods and Materials: This study has been conducted on 240 outpatients in Najmiyeh subspecialty hospital (Tehran-Iran) in 2011. They were selected using the proportional simple random sampling method. Following the confirmation of the content validity, we considered the construct validity and reliability applying Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Cronbach's Alpha. Also, SPSS and AMOS version 18 were used for data analysis. Findings: The sample population consisted of 240 subjects, including 132 females (55.1%) and 108 males (44.9%). The EFA reported three important factors in this regard, with a variance of 54% and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin index of 0.82, all approved by the CFA (RMSEA= 0.04, CFI= 0.96). The outpatients' satisfaction factors were: “hospital information system, treatment and conditions”. The reliability of the questionnaire was reported at %71 based on the Cronbach's alpha. Conclusions: Both validity and the reliability indexes of the NOSQ have been reported at a desirable level; therefore it can be used as a valid and reliable instrument to measure the outpatients' satisfaction.

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Aim: Patients' satisfaction (PS) is a dominant concept in medical care, due to the gap in the literature on Persian version of PS instruments, this study has conducted with aim to analyze the validity and reliability of self-designed Najmiyeh Inpatient Satisfaction Questionnaire (NISQ). Methods: This study was carried out on 247 inpatients that came in Najmiyeh subspecialty hospital in Tehran (the capital city of Iran) during year 2011 who were selected by proportional stratified sampling method. Statistical analysis used: In this study, after checking content validity we used confirmatory and explanatory factor analysis and Cronbach's Alpha in order to examine construct validity and reliability, respectively. SPSS (version18) and AMOS (version 20) programmer were used to analyze data. Findings: Samples consisted of 247 subjects (222 women (90%) and 25 men (10%)). The explanatory factor analysis showed 5 factors with 64% total variance and 0.91 Kaser-Meyer-Olkin Index, the result also confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis (PNFI=0.71, RMR=0.03, PCFI=0.76). Extracted factors consisted of: “satisfaction from nursing services and their behaviour”, “satisfaction from one’s doctor”, “satisfaction from inpatient department”, “companions’ satisfaction”, “satisfaction from one’s room”. Also the questionnaire’s reliability was 0.96 using the Cronbach's Alpha method. Conclusions: Because validity and reliability indexes of NISQ were reported in suitable range, we can confirm that this questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for measuring inpatient satisfaction.

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Historical geography is the study of the role of geographical factors and phenomena, especially natural geography in the formation of historical events. For example, a careful study on the location of some cities shows that the selection of their location was not accidental and was done through a precise process.
Tlemcen, a city in North Africa, known as the capital of the Middle West in the Middle Ages, is an example of a strategic city. This city, which for more than three centuries was the capital of a state of Ben-Abd al-Wad, (a state surrounded on all sides by hostile states) It holds the record for most and longest military and economic sieges in North Africa, but in the vast majority of these attacks and sieges, it has shown high resilience. It seems that the unique geographical location and natural defense barriers along with being located at important trade crossroads that have increased public wealth and social welfare, in addition to abundant water resources and fertile plains and agricultural lands that provide food. This set of factors led to the continuation of the government of Banu Abdul Wad.

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Aim: Smoking is the first factor of diseases, and death, and one of the major health problems all over the world.
The aim of this study was validating the Persian version of short-form decisional balance scale to smoke cessation in Iranian workers.
Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 218 workers from automobile manufactory in Bam City (Iran) in 2016 using convenient sampling.
Findings: The total of 218 male workers with (mean age 30.52±6.66 years) participated in this study. The results showed two factors (Barriers, and Benefits, or Cons and Pros) with good explanatory (KMO=66%; Cumulative of Variance= 58.94), confirmatory (REMSEA= 0.000; GFI= 0.995, AGFI= 0.983; P-value= 0.775) factor analysis and reliability index (ICC =0.65 95% CI (0.57, 0.72)).
Conclusion: This study showed the Persian version of the short-form decisional balance scale for smoking cessation was valid and reliable tool to measure decisional balance for smoking cessation.

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Mohammad Issaee Tafreshi Assistant Professor of Law Department, Tarbiat Modares University In this article, I will attempt to analyze and discuss the concept and scope of the Article 220 of the Commercial Code of Iran 1311 (1932). This study tends to show that the purpose of the phrase of "Iranian Company" under Art. 220, refers solely to commercial companies envisaged in the Commercial Code. All such companies have legal personality and administrative and financial independence, separate from their members. General application and generality of said phrase merely can be interpreted in the scope of Commercial Code and does not include partnership (whether engaged in commercial or non-commercial activity). The partners of such an entity do not intend to separate their financial affairs from their partnership, or to benefit from the concept of legal personality, or to create the legal person. In other words, the partnership is coverd wholly by the regulations and principles of the Civil Law. Therefore, Mozarebah, de facto company and non-registered company are' not covered by Article 220 of Commercial Code. This interpretation of Art. 220 of Commercial Code is in confirmity with the 4th principle of the Constitutional of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the present legal system (adopting partnership in Iranian Banking System according to Civil Law and not considering independent legal personality for partnership in general in Direct Taxation Act of Iran 1366 (1987).

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Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the validity and reliability of a native questionnaire (Perception of Sexually Transmitted Infections Questionnaire) among homeless women as a hidden layer in the Iranian society for sexually transmitted infections.
Methods: Qualitative and quantitative content and face validities were applied. In the qualitative phase of content validity, the homeless women evaluated wording, grammar, item allocation, and scaling of the questionnaire. In the quantitative phase, the content validity index (CVI) and the content validity ratio (CVR) were calculated. In the qualitative phase of face validity, 40 homeless women were asked to evaluate the questionnaire and indicate if they felt difficulty or ambiguity in the questionnaire. In the quantitative phase, the impact score was calculated. The Kuder-Richardson correlation and test-retest reliability were calculated to assess the internal consistency and stability of the questionnaire.
Findings: The ICC for the questionnaire was achieved at 0.86 (good to excellent), lending support to the stability of the questionnaire. The Kuder-Richardson correlation of the questionnaire was 0.85 (good to excellent). Impact scores of the items ranged from 1.2 to 5. In the quantitative content validity, items with CVR and CVI less than 0.59 and 0.79, respectively, were omitted; overall, 10 items were deleted in this part of the validity.
Conclusion: This study suggests that PSTIQ is a valid and reliable. It could be used to design appropriate interventions to prevent (STIs) in high risk groups, especially homeless women.

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Mohammad Issaei Tafreshi Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Tarbiat Modares University Mohammad Reza Kamyar Ph.D. Student in Private Law, Tarbiat Modares University This article has studied and comprated the basic of liability's carrier in 1980 United Nations Convention on multimodal transportation and Iranian Law. 1t shows that the basic of the liability is fault of multimodal transport operator, in both of Iranian Law and the Convention. In both of regulations it doesn't require to prove the fault by plaintiff, if he proves the loss or damage to the goods, fault of multi modal transport operator will presume as a legal presumption and then he will be response. NOw it is the carrier who must prove his exemption. In further, the article has studied the Legal essence of obligation of multimodal transport operator to carriage of goods safely. It appears that, this obligation is obligation to result in Iranian law. in opposite in the convention that is the obligation to means. The practice results of this difference, can be determined when the transporter wants to prove his exemption. Because in which kind of the essence, the matter which he must proves is different. At the end. The article studies the liability of multi modal transport operator resulting from any person who acting on his behalf (servants or agents).

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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the construction, validity and reliability of the short-form of the “Attitude/Motivation Test Battery” questionnaire in language learning. To achieve this purpose, the Persian version of Gardner’s AMTS was used. Using the stratified random sampling method, 245 (135 male and 110 female) undergraduate university students from different majors of Tehran universities were chosen to answer the questionnaire. The analysis methods included the construction validity (confirmatory factor analysis) and reliability (calculation of Alpha Cronbach’s coefficiency for all questionnaires and factors). As a result, 7 factors were recognized including attitude towards language learning importance, language learning anxiety, parents’ encouragement of language learning, negative attitude to language teachers, demotivation of language learning, positive attitude towards native speakers, and integrative motivation to language learning. The reliability of the questionnaire measured by Alpha Cronbach was 0.848. Regarding the results of this study, AMTB has appropriate validity and reliability. This instrument can measure the motivation and attitude of Iranian language learners.

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Mohammad Jafar Habibzadeh Associate Professor, Department of Law, Tarbiat Modarres University Seyed Doraid Mousavi Mojab Ph.D. Student of Criminal Law and Criminology, Tarbiat Modarres University  The necessity to protect to parliament and its members led to determine and assure a particular privilege named parliamentary immunity in the Constitutions or ordinary laws of majority of the countries. This legal institution has been predicted to provide freedom of speech and to maintain the independence of representatives (members of parliament) in order to do their duty favorably. To define and justify the necessity of it, different theories I ike "good service theory" and "the prestige of representatives' legal personality" have been introduced. In this regard, "Doctrine of Necessity" is presented as the most important theoretical basis. The legal supports which observe the parliamentary immunity, can be generally studied in two categories with distinct descriptions and effects. First, it demonstrates the benefits and utilization of immunity by the representatives for their statements, opinions, and the cast of votes in order to do their duty as representative, which idiomatically is called "the principle of non-liability". Second, it supports the members of parliament against legal proceedings, arrest. imprisonment and the rest judicial measures, except by the permission and allowance of the respective parliament, because of irrelevant exercises and non - parliamentary duties and prevents the possibility of immediate prosecution of MPs because of the attributed crimes. This kind of immunity which is practically is the logical consequence of the non-liability principle of representatives before their parliamentary duties, is named "the principle of inviolability". The stand of every country of the world in relation to the various forms of parliamentary immunity is a little bit different. In some countries, one of these two forms and in others. both of them are accepted to guarantee the whole immunity of MPs. Respectively, the first approach is called solo and the second one is called integrative. In Iran, the first approach depended on the non-liability of representatives because of their statements has been accepted in Art: 86 of the Constitution. The accuracy of this acceptance is approvable from the dynamic Fiqh’s point of view and the expediencies and existing necessities require to go along with the rest of countries which accepted the principle of parliamentary immunity.

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Deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power systems reliability assessment and enhancement. In this paper, generation reliability is considered, and a method for its assessment using intelligent systems is proposed. Also, because of power market and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, Monte Carlo simulation is used for reliability evaluation. Generation reliability, merely focuses on interaction between generation complex and load. Therefore, in this research, based on market type and its concentration, reserve margin, and various future times, a Neuro-Fuzzy system is proposed for evaluation of generation reliability which is valid and usable for all kinds of power pool markets. Finally, the proposed method is assessed on IEEE-Reliability Test System; and generation reliability indices of various markets are evaluated with different reserve margins and different load levels.

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The study aimed at developing a hypothesized model and questionnaire of language glocalization for the first time to accomplish systematic data generation and collection of the teachers’ perceptions regarding the glocalization of language education (LEG) in Iran. Hence, a model was initially hypothesized and the researchers went through scientific phases to generate a reliable and validated LEG questionnaire to test the model. Face validity, content validity and construct validity of the questionnaire were investigated. For exploratory factor analysis, the criterions for the data factorability being met, the researchers ran factor analysis employing Principle Components Analysis (PCA) method resulting in identification of five factors. Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was used to measure the questionnaire internal consistency. The Cronbach’s Alpha results indicated that the internal consistency was 0.96 for the whole questionnaire, and 0.89, 0.92, 0.88, 0.89, and 0.87 respectively for the five components of LEG as the subscales in the questionnaire. After running exploratory factor analysis, to check whether the questionnaire data fits the hypothesized model of LEG introduced at the beginning of the study, a confirmatory factor analysis was done. Then, the final version of the questionnaire was administered to 270 language teachers to gather the data to feed it to the model to see the extent to which the model fit the data. The results of the study revealed that although the model has been the first one of its kind, it displayed a reasonable degree of reliability and validity as confirmed by the statistical procedures. The developed and validated model and the questionnaire of this study can have many practical applications for Iranian EFL teachers as well as future researches in other contexts.
 

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Abstract In this paper the effect of two types of common initial geometric imperfections on the reliability of steel frames is investigated. These imperfections are the coordinates of connection nodes and crookedness of members. Most finite element reliability analyses in past literature neglect this source of uncertainty. For this purpose static nonlinear pushover structural analysis is used from which reliabilities are estimated based on FORM and Monte Carlo sampling methods. Furthermore to investigate the importance of uncertain parameters, reliability sensitivity analysis is performed by use of the direct differentiation method which has been implemented in the object oriented software framework Open Sees. It is demonstrated that some of these geometric imperfections have significant influence on reliability assessment of steel frames.

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According to Civil Code-Article 490-item 2, the lessee is obliged to use the object of lease for the purpose agreed upon in the lease, or if no purpose was specified, for the purpose of profit in the way indicated by the circumstances and conditions of the lease. In case the lessee breaches the lease and possibly not being preventable, according to the aforementioned Civil Code-Article 492, the lessor has the right to cancel the hire. The concept and meaning of the enjoyment of profit contrary to the thing hired and its consequences is not well established in civil code as well as the law concerning the relations between the lessor and the lessee legislated in the years 1977, 1983 and 1997, This paper attempts to discuss these issues from Islamic jurisprudent point of view. This article, indeed, discusses the concept and meaning of the enjoyment of profit contrary to the thing hired in three kinds of hire; things, persons and animals. It also explores the consequences of the enjoyment of the contrary and the sanction of the lessor’s breach including the right of the lesser’s breach, if it is not possible to prevent the lesser, the liability of the lessor to the object of lease and the liability of the lessor to the profit. Considering the lessor to pay both the specified wage and the average wage of the contradictory profit is a category argued based on the theory of the possibility of possessing contradictory profits, provided that the profit specified in the lease is in contrast with the enjoyed contradictory profit.

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Abstract: The effect of two types of common initial geometric imperfections on the reliability of steel frames was investigated. These imperfections are the coordinates of connection nodes and crookedness of members. Most of the finite element reliability analyses in the past haveneglect this source of uncertainty. For this purpose, static non-linear pushover structural analysis was used in the present work from which reliabilities were estimated based on the FORM and Monte Carlo sampling methods. Furthermore, to investigate the importance of uncertain parameters, reliability sensitivity analysis was performed by the use of direct differentiation method, which was implemented in the object oriented framework of OpenSees software. It was demonstrated that some of these geometric imperfections have significant influence on the reliability assessment of steel frames.