abstract purpose: the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between job characteristics of librarians of universities under authority of the ministry of health and medical education in tehran and their motivation for knowledge sharing. methodology: method of the research was analytical survey, and the data were gathered using three questionnaires of job characteristics,...

Although the self-concordance of goals has been repeatedly shown to predict better goal progress, recent research suggests potential problems with aggregating autonomous and controlled motivations to form a summary index of self-concordance (Judge, Bono, Erez, & Locke, 2005). The purpose of the present investigation was to further examine the relations among autonomous motivation, controlled mo...

The study deals with the perceived reasons for nonparticipation in adult learning and education (ALE), drawing on existing research concerning motivation lifelong learning, attitudes towards education, of dispositional barriers. aim is to determine subjective reasons/motivation adults not participate ALE what factors influence their nonparticipation. For this purpose, we drew self-determination...

abstract background: motivation to academic achievement is critical for students of medical sciences, particularly nursing students. it is directly related to high levels of achievement and quality of life. accordingly, diminished motivation would result in academic decline, study and work desertion and exhaustion. therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of cognitive behavioural i...

This is the working-paper version of the published article, “Preference for Flexibility in a Savage Framework”, 1999, Econometrica 67, 121-146. The last three sections consist of additional material on the uniqueness of the representation (s. 5), interpretation in terms of freedom of choice (s. 6), and an alternative motivation for departing from the Savage framework based on “intra-agent incen...

In the paper a new schedule of S-boxes design is considered. We start from motivation from block cipher practice. Then, the most popular S-box design criteria are presented, especially a possibility of application of Boolean bent-functions. Finally, we propose integrating neural networks (playing a role of Boolean functions with appropriate properties) in the design process.

The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it tests how the Motivation Activation Measure [MAM; Lang, A., Bradley, S. D., Sparks Jr, J. V., & Lee, S. (2007). The motivation activation measure (MAM): How well does MAM predict individual differences in physiological indicators of appetitive and aversive activation? Communication Methods and Measures, 1(2), 113–136] applies in a non-American (i....

BACKGROUND Therapeutic intervention programs for somatic symptom disorder (SSD) show only small-to-moderate effect sizes. These effects are partly explained by the motivational problems of SSD patients. Hence, fostering treatment motivation could increase treatment success. One central aspect in SSD patients might be damage to motivation because of symptomatic relapses. Consequently, the aim of...