Study of the neutrinoless ββ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay rate, it is desirable to be able to describe the allowed two-neutrino decay. It is argued that only low-lying virtual intermediate states are important for that proce...

in this study, individual moral virtues were surveyed in surah al-qasas. one can infer very important points in the individual moral dimension from the story of moses (as) and others discussed in the surah. from the moralities inferred from acts of moses one can point to such good virtues like sincerity, gratitude, courage, hope and pray. from the moral virtues of others involved in the story o...

this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. method: the research method was a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines. five clients were selected by purposive sampling method. they were received 20 individual sessions based on young's schema therapy model. the social phobia inventory (spin), liebowitz social anxi...

the ever severe dynamic competitive environment has led to increasing complexity of strategic decision making in giant organizations. strategy formulation is one of basic processes in achieving long range goals. since, in ordinary methods considering all factors and their significance in accomplishing individual goals are almost impossible. here, a new approach based on clustering method is pro...

With increasing Internet coverage, the use of a web-based survey for epidemiological study is a possibility. We performed an investigation in Japan in winter 2008 using the web-based daily questionnaire for health (WDQH). The WDQH is a web-based questionnaire survey formulated to obtain information about the daily physical condition of the general public on a real-time basis, in order to study ...

The purpose of this study was to examine how exercise level, exercise motives, and barriers changed from the baseline phase to the follow-up phase after a behavioural and cognitive intervention aimed at increasing exercise. Seventy-five members of our university community (43 subjects in the control group and 32 in the experimental group), all of whom received cognitive feedback, agreed to comp...

abstract objectives: this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of social anxiety disorder.method: the research method was a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines. five patients were selected by purposive sampling method. they were treated in 20 individual sessions according to young's schema therapy model. the data were collected by tes...

Models of collective action infrequently account for differences across individuals beyond a limited set of strategies, ignoring variation in endowment (e.g. physical condition, wealth, knowledge, personality, support), individual costs of effort, or expected gains from cooperation. However, behavioural research indicates these inter-individual differences can have significant effects on the dy...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has found that conscientiousness has positive associations with preventative health-related behaviors and self-perceived health, but little is known about the links between changes in these variables over time. In the present study, we examined how levels and changes in conscientiousness were linked to levels and changes in both preventative health-related behaviors ...