objective: this study investigated the relationship between resilience and religious orientation (internal and external) with posttraumatic growth (ptg). this study also examined the impact of marriage and sex variables on growth . method: participants were selected based on prescreening of a larger group of students enrolled in the university of shiraz. participants were recruited in two stage...

Conventional marketing wisdom holds that a customer orientation provides a firm with a better understanding of its customers, which subsequently leads to enhanced customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, there are cautions that being too customer focused can lead to inertia, and anecdotal evidence suggests that it may be better to "ignore your customer" when developing new products....

Combined optical imaging of ferret primary visual cortex in vivo and scanning laser photostimulation in brain slices were used to determine the spatial relationships between synaptic inputs onto individual neurons and the pattern of orientation columns. In the upper cortical layers, both excitatory and inhibitory inputs originated primarily from regions with orientation tuning similar to that o...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which perceptual learning transfers between orientation and direction discrimination. Naive observers were trained to discriminate orientation diierences between two single-line stimuli, and direction diier-ences between two single-moving-dot stimuli. In the rst experiment, observers practiced the orientation and direction tasks along or...

introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. Whistle-blowing in the service organizations of public sector utilizes the mass media to call the attention of public to corruption activities that are associated to the misuse of public funding in a direct way. Th...

RESEARCH in avian migratory orientation has centered on the environmental stimuli that may serve as cues (see Adler 1970, Bellrose 1972, Emlen 1975). Most such studies have dealt primarily with long-distance migrants or trained homing pigeons (Columba livia) (Keeton 1974). Few experiments have explored the orientation mechanism(s) of nonmigrants, partial, or short-distance migrants. As Bellrose...

This study was conducted to find empirical evidence of a causal relationship between organizational size, market orientation, and strategic planning, control, performance measurement in the management accounting (SMA) technique village-owned enterprises Indonesia. research is based on contingency theory. The objects this are 51 Respondents were administrators (managers) instrument used question...

Drawing upon the corporate social responsibility literature, we investigate the moderating effects of the natural environment and the stage of an organization’s life cycle on the market orientation to firm innovativeness relationship. Through 229 owners or chief executive officer respondents, our results establish evidence of (1) a positive linkage between market orientation and firm innovative...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of information interventions which orient patients and their carers/family to a cancer care facility and the services available within the facility. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs and quasi-RCTs. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, EMBASE and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. METHODS We i...