The processes of globalization present opportunities and challenges for higher education learners. This process increasingly depends upon information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the internet. Despite the fact that there have been frequently observed male/female differences in ICT usage, this has not received adequate explanations especially in higher education internet usage. ...

Online group buying (OGB) has recently captured the attention of academic researchers. Because of the lack of an integrated perspective of external variables in the technology acceptance model (TAM), we investigated the influence of consumer characteristics (economic shopping orientation and prior buying frequency), social influence factors (subjective norms and visibility), and system factors ...

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to investigate: (1) whether three subscale scores (i.e., body fat, appearance, and strength) and the global physical self-concept and global self-concept scores of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) are applicable to Chinese children; (2) whether there is a gender difference in these relationships; and (3) whether global physical self-...

With the increasing scale and depth of underground engineering, geological environment that engineering is faced with becoming more complex. As weak position rock mass, structural surface has a particularly great influence on mechanical characteristics mass. In order to obtain shear strength characteristic plane analyze morphological parameters such as undulating angle bulge degree shearing, ta...

The present study aimed to explore and explain maturity of employee based on quality of work life. This work used Delphi survey through a researcher- made questionnaire to collect data. Confirmatory factor analysis and descriptive statistic are used to survey the data. In comparison with the present standards, both factors have a good statue. For components 'quality of working life' and ' matur...

the aim of the present research was to study the impact of organizational culture on entrepreneurial orientation given the mediating role of knowledge management. the statistical population consisted of the employees of district 1 and 2 municipalities of qazvin who were about 200 in number, of whom 130 people were selected based on stratified random sampling method and cochran formula. data ana...