Background: One of social problems which has affected our society and resulted in problems for different groups of people is drug abuse. This issue indicates a serious psychological, physical and social problem in community. Social skills have positive and successful influences in prevention of substance abuse. This includes the ability to explain events correctly and then appropriate decision ...

consumers have different needs and desires in their relationship with service firms and not every consumer is willing to engage in close commercial relationship in the same manner. although customer relationship management (crm) is a top priority for marketers, scholars and managers do not appropriately understand these distinct relational preferences. this article introduces ‘customer attachme...

The intelligent home research requires understanding of the human behavior and recognizing patterns of activities of daily living (ADL). However instead of understand the psychosomatic nature of human early projects in this area simply employed intelligence to the household appliance. This paper proposed an algorithm for detecting ADL. The proposed method is based on two opposite state entity e...

Visual Merchandising Design covers every space, environment, and visually stimulating factor. This includes not only the architectural appearance but interior, graphic sign boards, window display, layout, store appliances, lighting, and even the looks and service attitude that sales employees have and show to customers. Even if good quality merchandise and design hit the shelf of the store, but...

E-grocery offers customers an alternative to traditional store grocery retailing. Customers select e-grocery for convenience, making use of the home delivery at a selected time slot. In contrast retailing, in in-stock information stock keeping units (SKUs) becomes transparent customer before substantial shopping effort has been invested, thus reducing personal cost switching another supplier. A...

This study deals with clarifying the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and decision making styles (rational, intuitive, dependant, spontaneous and avoidant) of managers in Iranian oil industry. A collection of 55 managers were tested.Emotional intelligence was measured by an EI questionnaire and Scott and Bruce’s decision making style questionnaire was used for measuring decision...

With over 60 percent of the U. S. population currently online, consumer spending has increased steadily from $27 billion in 1999 to a projected $65 billion in 2004 (Jupiter Research, 2004). As the Internet has diffused into the late maturity phase of adoption in society, consumers that are going online now are characteristically risk averse and their familiarity with established offline retaile...