Sunshine hours are the only long term, reliable and available measured information that can be used to reach highly accurate estimates of solar radiation values on the Earth surface. In this paper the sunshine duration is used to estimate monthly average daily solar radiation on a horizontal surface, it can be used to predict solar radiation in different climatic region of Iran. According to th...

The purpose of this research is studying and regulating indices of talent detection in the game of volleyball according to views of prominent volleyball coaches in Khuzestan Province. So, the researcher assessed opinions of all 100 active coaches in this province. The methodology is descriptive survey research which has been carried out with field method. Measurement material was five-value que...

IRCTC’s mobile ticketing was recently introduced in India. In studying its adoption, three competing attribute-sets are compared. This study aims to reveal the attribute-set best predicting its adoption. The research model was empirically tested and validated using SPSS. Four attributes from the DOI theory, four from the PCI theory, and four from Tornatzky and Klein’s meta-analysis significantl...

Purpose: This research aims to identify key factors that influence physicians’ drug selection decisions as well as the main sources of information for physicians about new drugs and the most effective “reminder methods” used by pharmaceutical sales representatives. This study fills a gap within the existing literature by identifying the most important factors that affect physicians’ drug select...

Data and methods are described in detail in Trends in Cancer Survival in Scotland 19711995, ISD 2000 (http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/trends_1971-95.pdf). Lifetables for the 2010 analysis were calculated by the Cancer Survival Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) using a modified ewblft algorithm. Relative survival was estimated using the most recent strel al...

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the humanistic values of pre-service teachers of information technologies and their attitudes towards teaching profession. Moreover, the relationship between the teachers’ demographic information and their attitudes towards teaching profession and their humanistic values were also examined. The study group was composed of 218 pr...