Some physical properties and chemical compositions of two cultivars (Semsouri and Shahabadi) of cantaloupe studied during four different stages of maturity from fruit set to completely ripe. The physical properties investigated were the geometric mean diameter (GMD), specific gravity (SG), mean firmness (MF), rind, seed (%) and flesh (%). The chemical compositions were Brix, Titrable Acidity (T...

The concepts of social enterprise and entrepreneurship have been ever more present in public discourse during the past 20–30 years, along with radically different views kind level socioeconomic or political change that these specific economic ventures (should) aim for. Although is often dominated by neoliberal perspectives, which market-based activity as simply an efficient means solving all ki...

The purpose of this paper is to report the possible reasons for premature abandonment by lowliterate users during online searches. Previous evidence suggests that low-literate web users abandon their online searches early believing that the information they were looking for should be in the section they were at, thinking that they have either found it or that the information was unavailable. Th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Literacy-Independent Cognitive Assessment (LICA) has been developed for a diagnosis of dementia and is a useful neuropsychological test battery for illiterate populations as well as literate populations. The objective of this study was to develop the short form of the LICA (S-LICA) and to evaluate the reliability and validity of the S-LICA. METHODS The subtests of t...

More consumers in developing regions are using information systems (IS) to facilitate their work and increase productivity. This may imply that more low-literate populations in society are becoming the next billion IS consumers. Yet, how to adapt past IS literature in high-literate context to guide IS designs for low-literate consumers remains a gap. The current study, therefore, aims to apply ...

In the move from pre-literate to modern society there were few technological advances and the speed of mechanical devices was slow as well. The sensory shift occurred between an emphasis on the ear in the oral society to the visual in the modern literate society. The few changes and slow movement insured that individual and societal reactions to innovation were delayed and absorbed over a consi...