In the behavioral and social sciences, structural equation models (SEMs) have become widely accepted as a modeling tool for the relation between latent and observed variables. SEMs can be seen as a unification of several multivariate analysis techniques. SEM Trees combine the strengths of SEMs and the decision tree paradigm by building tree structures that separate a data set recursively into s...

one of organizations requirements is knowledge sharing among organization persons in the era of learning. hence, the identification of factors affecting the implementation of knowledge sharing is very important. in this study, the relationship between the five factor model personality dimensions (extraversion, adaptation, consciousness, neuroticism, openness to experience) and knowledge sharing...

the soil water retention curve (swrc) is a basic characteristic of the determination of soil hydraulic properties, including unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. measurement of this curve is essential to research, thus scientists have focused on indirect methods such as pedotransfer functions and empirical relationships to estimate swrc easily. since there is a close relationship between swrc an...

In this paper, we obtain a suitable mathematical model for the seismic response of dams. By using the shear beam model (SB model), we give a mathematical formulation that it is a partial differential equation and transform it to the Sturm-Liouville equation.

the aim of this study was to model the effect of athletic identity on sport orientation in athletes participating in 11th sport olympiad of male students in iran. 400 students were selected as the sample of this study from 2130 students of population. sport orientation questionnaire (soq, gill et al., 1988, α=0.87) and the athletic identity questionnaire (cieslak, 2004, α=0.82) were used. the s...

price fairness and price satisfaction is one the most important fields in pricing and also in customer satisfaction. in this research, first the dimensions of price fairness, price satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty are extracted from marketing literature, then five hypotheses are developed. in proposed model, price fairness has direct impact on price satisfaction, custom...

although the research on organizational citizenship behaviors (ocbs) has increased dramatically in diverse fields during the past decade, little is known about the ocbs in the information systems area. the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of ocbs on information systems success. in order to perform empirical analyses, measurements on the ocbs constructs based on the five dimension...

the present study aimed at validating the structure of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire (cddq).five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males and 185 females completed the survey for the second study.the results of exploratory factor analysis (efa) indicated ...