bankruptcy anticipation is a phenomenon which has been increasingly favored by investors, banks and financial and credit institutes. since the potential signs of bankruptcy would be understood a few months before the real appearance of it, so the timely and accurate anticipation of this crisis will give the opportunity to managers and creditors in order to adopt preventable activities. the aim ...

The current research intends to evaluate the validity and reliability of adopted model-BFAS, investigate relationship between motives Facebook addiction in Afghanistan. instrument were online distributed undergraduate postgraduate students only 431 responded across country determine their intentions for using Facebook. software RStudio used descriptive analysis SEM-PLS approach was applied hypo...

conclusions our study showed that the persian version of yiat is good and usable on iranian people. the reliability of the instrument was very good. moreover, the validity of the persian translated version of the scale was sufficient. in addition, the reliability and validity of the three extracted factors of yiat were evaluated and were acceptable. results the cronbach’s alpha was 0.917 (ci 95...

conclusions nx-dcp correlated positively with fibrosis stage and could discriminate well between hcv-related patients with or without significant fibrosis. moreover, nx-dcp had a similar predictive ability to the abovementioned models, and thereby could be a new noninvasive prediction tool for fibrosis. results increase in serum nx-dcp was significantly related to increase in fibrosis stage (p ...

cadmium sulfide nanoparticles were grown using wet chemical method by dissolving the reactants ofcadmium acetate and sodium sulfide in the presence of thioglycerol (tg) as capping agent in ethanolsolvent. different nanoparticle sizes and size distribution were obtained through varying the molaritiesof thioglycerol. at higher tg concentration, synthesis provides a nearly monodisperse nanoparticl...

This paper employs meta-analysis to determine the influence of computer-based scaffolding characteristics and study and test score quality on cognitive outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at the secondary, college, graduate, and adult levels. Results indicate that (a) computer-based scaffolding positively influences learning (g = 0.53), (b) studies with zero ...

The objective of this paper is to describe empirical studies evaluating the impact of reference pricing interventions in pharmaceutical markets, and to assess the quality of their evaluation method. A total of ten studies were included in the review. The nature of the intervention, the nature of the data available, the nature of the question to be answered, and the requirements of the evaluatio...

Honing and Ladinig (2008) make the assertion that while the internal validity of web-based studies may be reduced, this is offset by an increase in external validity possible when experimenters can sample a wider range of participants and experimental settings. In this paper, the issue of internal validity is more closely examined, and it is agued that there is no necessary reason why internal ...

objective: the three-factor eating questionnaire reduced (tfeq-r18) is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing eating behavior worldwide. the present study aimed at confirming the reliability and validity of the persian version of tfeq-r18 among overweight and obese females in iran. material and methods: in the present study, 168 overweight and obese females consented to participa...