As a popular and important advertising style, Internet advertising has drawn substantial amount of scholarly attention. Previous studies have contributed to the understanding of the independent effects of various factors, such as product, consumer, website and ad per se, but few studies consider the impacts of the congruities between these factors on consumer’s attitude toward the ads. In this ...

Aims: Internet addiction is excessive use of the Internet (daily more than three hours). This is social and psychological damage with severe consequences for young people, especially college students. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and identity styles in Bushehr University of Medical Sciences students. Instrument & Methods: The present research is a...

This study aimed to describe (1) the prevalence of informational needs in surgically treated women with vulvar neoplasia during the first week after hospital discharge, (2) associations between informational needs and age, type, disease stage and the extent of surgery and (3) additional informational needs. This convergent parallel designed mixed-methods study was conducted in eight hospitals a...

Considering that the movements of complex system entities take place on continuous, but non-differentiable, curves, concepts, like non-differentiable entropy, informational non-differentiable entropy and informational non-differentiable energy, are introduced. First of all, the dynamics equations of the complex system entities (Schrödinger-type or fractal hydrodynamic-type) are obtained. The la...

study of the limit-point concept [16]. Which factors could dictate the introduction of a topology for a given system of informational formulas? In informational cases, different kinds of reasonable topologies, corresponding intuitive ideas what an understanding, interpretation, conception, perception and meaning should be, are coming to the consciousness, that is, into the modeling foreground. ...

In their interesting paper, Fabia de Carvalho and Maurício Bugarin alter the infor-mational assumptions I employed in Walsh (2000) and discuss how this change affects the results reported in my paper. The structure of the underlying model I used, and therefore the rationale for the informational assumption, was designed to capture two factors. First, inflation models developed in the new Keynes...

Speech understanding in noise is affected by both the energetic and informational masking components of the background noise. In addition, when the background noise is everyday speech, the relative contributions of the energetic and informational masking components to the overall difficulties in understanding speech are unclear. This study estimated informational masking effects, in conversatio...

Recent developments in self-determination theory research in the educational setting (e.g., Reeve, Deci, & Ryan, 2004), suggest that teachers’ interpersonal style should be considered as consisting of three dimensions: autonomy support, structure and interpersonal involvement. Based on this theoretical proposition, the purpose of the present study was to test the effects of a training program f...

Recent developments in self-determination theory research in the educational setting (e.g., Reeve, Deci, & Ryan, 2004), suggest that teachers' interpersonal style should be considered as consisting of three dimensions: autonomy-support, structure and interpersonal involvement. Based on this theoretical proposition, the purpose of the present study was to test the effects of a training program f...

All cancer screening tests produce a proportion of abnormal results requiring follow up. Consequently, the cancer-screening setting is a natural laboratory for examining psychological and behavioural response to a threatening health-related event. This study tested hypotheses derived from the social cognitive processing and cognitive-social health information processing models in trying to unde...