objective: the main purpose of present research was to identify strategic factors influencing to the development of digital libraries in iran.method: research method of this study is grounded theory, which we use systematic method. the study sample consisted of professionals and experts in the field of digital library, and semi-structured interviews used to collect data to achieve theoretical s...

Application service providers are trying their best to enhance existing customers’ loyalty because of the prosperous and competitive market. Customers switch suppliers based on economic evaluation. Other suppliers easily imitate the competitive edge derived from price and cost factors. From social exchange theory and relationship management, psychological factors are important for industrial cu...

Given the important role of family environment in children's psychological development, the objective of this study was to examine the linkages between family factors at the whole, dyadic, and individual levels and two dimensions (affective and behavioral) of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) symptoms in Chinese children. Participants comprised of 80 father-child dyads and 169 mother-child dy...

Affective reaction is a little researched area in political news. This study examined three factors that might generate affective responses in addition to the candidates themselves: the use of exemplars in television stories, the valence of story content and the affinity of audience members toward candidates. A within subject experiment was conducted. Results indicated that candidates and valen...

todays, the world development is facing serious water quality issues. since protect of water quality and ecosystem healthy is an important aspect of ecohydrology. the present research aimed to analyze the temporal trends of water quality parameters of mashin zard river station in order to planning long term management approaches. in this research, trend of some significant factors of water qual...

Software piracy has been studied by academics, software firms, law enforcement agents and policy makers for many years. Previous research in software piracy either did not differentiate between unauthorized copying and unauthorized sharing, or focused only on unauthorized copying. We believe the motivating factors behind the two behaviors are quite different because beneficiaries of the behavio...

Individuals have affective associations with health behaviors. In other domains such associations have been shown to influence behavior, but affective associations with health behaviors are not included in current health decision-making models. The authors examined whether affective associations with exercise predicted individuals' activity behavior and, if so, how they interfaced with other de...

nowadays, teams play a significant role in organizations' success and competitive advantage. that's why managers and researchers are trying to find antecedences and factors affecting teams' effectiveness. this study aims at evaluating the indirect effect of social rewards on team collaborative culture and knowledge sharing. the research is applied in terms of objective, and is co...

since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

BACKGROUND Growing evidence suggests that abdominal obesity is a more important risk factor for the prognosis of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than BMI. Somatic-affective symptoms of depression have also been linked to cardiovascular risk. The relationship between obesity and depression, however, has remained contradictory. Our aim was therefore to relate body mass index (BMI) and diffe...