Predicting individuals’ vulnerability to social engineering in social networks

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...

Predicting Social Networks in Weblogs

Weblogs and other platforms used to organize a social life online have achieved an enormous success over the last few years. Opposed to applications directly designed for building up and visualizing social networks, weblogs are comprised of mostly unstructured text data, that comes with some meta data, such as the author of the text, its publication date or the URL it is available under. In thi...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Social vulnerability to climate

Social vulnerability to climate in the “Little Ice Age”: an example from Central Europe in the early 1770s C. Pfister and R. Brázdil Institute of History/NCCR Climate, University of Bern, Unitobler, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, The Czech Republic Received: 1 February 2006 – Accepted: 22 March 2006 – Published: 7 April 2006 ...

Privacy engineering in social networks