the goal of the present paper has been investigating social trust and the factors affecting it among women in three villages of three different iranian provinces. the two research questions of the study are: 1. how is social trust perceived by rural women? 2. what factors affect rural women’s social trust? the data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among a sample of 300 women comin...

BACKGROUND An increasing part of medical students' learning takes place in primary healthcare (PHC) but little is known about how the students perceive PHC as a clinical learning environment. This study aimed to explore medical students' perceptions of the clinical learning environment in PHC and how these vary with stage of education. METHODS Free-text course evaluation comments from student...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...

Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative around the globe and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of the campus? I examine the scholarly output and collaboration patterns of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they pertain to its interrelated organizational structures, including institutional affiliation and spatial configu...

How do changes in competitive intensity affect trade and spatial market share patterns in oligopolies? Models of collusive arrangements in spatially separated markets generate testable predictions of the effects of collusion on price, trade patterns and concentration. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment associated with increased anti-trust enforcement activity over the last two decades to tes...

Background: It is a common myth that the direction of rotation of bath water as it drains down a plughole is determined by the rotation of the Earth – in particular the hemisphere in which it is performed. Careful experiments have been performed to confirm that the rotation of the Earth has only a miniscule effect on the motion (Shapiro, 1962; Trefethen et al, 1965) and it can also be demonstra...

In Social networks, users need a proper estimation of trust in others to be able to initialize reliable relationships. Some trust evaluation mechanisms have been offered, which use direct ratings to calculate or propagate trust values. However, in some web-based social networks where users only have binary relationships, there is no direct rating available. Therefore, a new method is required t...

Norway 3 Acknowledgements First off all I would like to thank the participating patients and the healthy elderly from our local community who volunteered to participate in this study. I am deeply grateful to my supervisor Professor Dag Aarsland who recruited me for this project. Thank you for your trust, enthusiasm, generosity, never ending optimism and patience throughout the years. Thank you ...