Identity-based conceptualizations of sexual orientation may not account adequately for variation in young women's sexuality. Sexual minorities fare worse in psychosocial markers of wellbeing (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety, self esteem, social support) than heterosexual youth; however, it remains unclear whether these health disparities exclusively affect individuals who adopt a sexual mino...

Introduction: Today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. The aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in Tehran hospitals. Methods: This is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of Tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospi...

Purpose: The study purposed to examine the influence of total quality management on competitive advantage businesses in United Arab Emirates. TQM has been studied past but not context advantage, especially business paper aimed practices and their businesses' Emirates.
 Methodology: utilized a quantitative method aligned with positivist philosophy deductive approach. A structured questionna...

Motivated by routing in sensor networks, Biro et al. [2] introduced the notion of beacon attraction and inverse attraction as a new variant of visibility in a simple polygon. A beacon b is a point inside a polygon P that can induce an attraction that moves a target point p greedily towards it in a trajectory that always reduces distance from p to b. The trajectory of p may require sliding p alo...

In information technology era, databases are known asone of the most valuable resources for organizations, especially usedin database marketing. Customer Equity is a key concept in DatabaseMarketing which integrates customer acquisition, retention and development.From the perspective of customer equity, customers are theprimary source of both current and future cash-flows. Customer equitymodels...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the experiential avoidance, explicit and implicit attraction beliefs in obese and normal body mass index (BMI) females. Materials and Methods: This was an analytic cross sectional study. About 400 females (between 20-43 years old) were selected from nutrition and obesity clinics by convenience sampling method. The 40 items avoidance questionnaire...

Many researchers place great emphasis on the customer segmentation step of the CRM implementation process because it is a starting point for creating differentiated offerings and target marketing to satisfy customers. As the process of segmenting customers is to make an important service encounter with a company and its customers, both the companies’ and customers’ expected value should be cons...

In forest operations, the interface between forest companies and harvesting contractors is of special importance, considering that it is the first link in the forest industry’s supply chains. Supply operations account for a significant share of the final costs of wood products (up to 50%). This study investigates the effect of customer–contractor alignment on contractors’ profit margins and on ...

We extend Schmittlein et al.’s model (1987) of customer lifetime value to include satisfaction. Customer purchases are modeled as Poisson events and their rates of occurrence depend on the satisfaction of the most recent purchase encounter. Customers purchase at a higher rate when they are satisfied than when they are dissatisfied. A closed-form formula is derived for predicting total expected ...