Marketplace cultures, one of the main theoretical frameworks within consumer culture theory (CCT), offers grounds for study interactions with marketplace. One kind interaction occurs inside consumption communities. Most communities nowadays are online. Consumers go online to get information and advice from peers on their options processes. They participate in forums connect like-minded individu...

Seasonal cycles of temperature, water regime and day length act as “Zeitgeber” (timer) triggering stage transitions in the life cycle of organisms provoking temporal patterns of communities at different levels of organization. Climate change is both affecting temperature forcings and water regime. Mathematical models are set up to investigate the mechanisms for the change of temporal patterns i...

background: this study aimed to assess lifestyle behavioral management in patients with knee osteoarthritis among iranian patients up to 6 months. settings and design.   methods and material: in this educational controlled trial study, 130 eligible participants took part in control group (n = 66) and received just prescribed medications, or intervention group (n=64) who received the lifestyle b...

healthcare workers suffer from work-related or occupational stress. this can lead to severe distress, burnout or physical illness, and finally to decrease quality of work life and services provision. nurses must be aware of retential stressors, because they add to the cumulative effect of other stressful events. holmes and rahe both found a relationship between life change unit as stressors and...

Second Life is a virtual world where users, known as residents, can interact socially and commercially. Its population is growing at 20% per month and each day sees around 500,000 real American dollars change hands between them. Worlds such as Second Life represent extreme versions of the sort of web-based knowledge sharing communities that have been studied in information management literature...

Climate change is generating novel communities composed of new combinations of species. These result from different degrees of species adaptations to changing biotic and abiotic conditions, and from differential range shifts of species. To determine whether the responses of organisms are determined by particular species traits and how species interactions and community dynamics are likely to be...