purpose – this study tries to examine how perceived instrumentality organizational (the extent to which employees feel that their display of ocb will help in contributing to organizational operations and achievement of organizational objectives) and perceived instrumentality individual ( the extent to which employees perceive that their display of ocb will help in achieving individual objective...

Many games and sports, including races, involve outcomes in which competitors are rank ordered. In some sports, competitors may play in multiple events over long periods of time, and it is natural to assume that their abilities change over time. We propose a Bayesian state-space framework for rank ordered logit models to rate competitor abilities over time from the results of multi-competitor g...

the present study was aimed to study the effective factors on the inbound tourists’ loyalty that have traveled to isfahan. the statistical population of this study includes inbound tourists who have traveled to isfahan in november of 2013. a sample of 200 tourists has been selected from this population. the sampling method was convenience sampling. a self-administrated questionnaire has been us...

Two German eye-tracking experiments tested whether top-down expectations interact with acoustically-driven word-recognition processes. Competitor objects with two synonymous names were paired with target objects whose names shared word onsets with either the dominant or the non-dominant name of the competitor. Non-dominant names of competitor objects were either introduced before the test sessi...

Ideal free distribution (IFD) theory has frequently been used to investigate habitat selection when fitness payoffs are frequency-dependent. To date, however, researchers have not considered the possibility that individuals may simultaneously differ in their ability to compete for resources and their susceptibility to predation. Such differences might be expected to occur as a consequence of di...