Although we know that the use of accounting information and the leadership styles of managers are related, only little is known about how the leadership styles of managers affect the information receivers’ reaction to management accounting change. Therefore, using a case study of a company that owns ten car dealerships, this paper explores how the leadership styles of managers can affect the us...

the age and growth of the persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus, obtained from the iranian coastal waters of the caspian sea, were studied through analysis of the pectoral fin ray section from 180 specimens, ranging in fork length (fl) from 66 to 203 cm. the specimens were obtained from commercial fisheries between october 2008 and june 2010. interpretation of growth bands in the pectoral fin ra...

This study examined whether children's inferential styles moderate the association between the onset of depressive symptoms in children and their parents. To provide a powerful test of our hypotheses, we utilized a high-risk sample (parents with a history of major depressive episodes and their children) and a multiwave longitudinal design. During the initial assessment, 140 children (ages 6 to ...

Students at a southwestern university were surveyed to test the interrelations of three constructs: sexual-moral attitudes, love styles, and attraction criteria. Following the procedures of the National Health and Social Life Survey, from which the sexual-moral attitude items were obtained, we conducted a cluster analysis to create attitudinal groupings. We obtained four clusters representing v...

In this paper, we use a scientific controversy, and the efforts to legitimize and undermine a theory, to examine the co-production of facts and the rules for verifying facts over time. We discuss these processes in terms of what we call 'styles of scientific practice.' In contrast to the focus of idealist philosophers on theory production and validation as forms of logic or ways of thinking, ou...

BACKGROUND Learning and training basic life support (BLS)-especially external chest compressions (ECC) within the BLS-algorithm-are essential resuscitation training for laypersons as well as for health care professionals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of learning styles on the performance of BLS and to identify whether all types of learners are sufficiently addressed...

Parents have pampered children for many years. Alfred Adler‟s Adlerian theory understands the significance of pampering children and the difficulties that arise later in life for these children. Overindulgence, overpermissive, overdomineering, overnurture, and overprotection describe five different categories of pampering. The definitions of the pampering categories vary and often overlap the c...