the rheological behavior of feedstocks used in powder injection molding technology influences strongly on the final properties of the products. powder loading is one of the important factors that have a great distribution on rheological behaviors. by using the gas atomized spherical 316l stainless steel powder and the binder of 55% paraffin wax+ 40% polyethylen+ 5% stearic acid, four kinds of f...

8 Abstract Models explaining and predicting human travel behavior have gone through 9 many changes in the past few decades. As researchers attempt to explain more and predict 10 with more accuracy, the inclusion of social interactions in modeling and simulation is 11 being recognized as a necessity. Among these efforts, researchers have focused on issues 12 such as the composition of social net...

Sex differences in behavior and developmental trajectories in human children are of great interest to researchers in a variety of fields, and a persistent topic of discussion and debate is the relative contribution of biological vs. social influences to such differences. Given the potentially large effects of cultural and social influences on human child development, nonhuman primates are impor...

In studying the etiology of crime, criminological theories rest, to a large extent, on studies based on registered offenders from the lower social classes. Their living conditions have inspired criminologists to develop so-called social deprivation theories to explain crime. According to these theories factors such as bad housing conditions, inadequate education systems, poor job opportunities,...

Relationships between genes and social behavior have historically been construed as a one-way street, with genes in control. Recent analyses have challenged this view by discovering broad alterations in the expression of human genes as a function of differing socio-environmental conditions. The emerging field of social genomics has begun to identity the types of genes subject to social regulati...

Application of social network analysis to education has revealed how social network positions of K-12 students correlate with their behavior and academic achievements. However, no study has been conducted on how their social network influences their academic progress over time. Here we investigated correlations between high school students' academic progress over one year and the social environ...

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on fi nancial system reform. In the fi rst part I describe what I perceive to be a massive regulatory failure, a breakdown that goes all the way from regulatory fundamentals to prudential implementation. Although there has been some truly shocking behavior in the world of fi nance, the universal denunciation of “fi nancial madness” is pointless. Man...

the effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. one of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of islamic republic of iran. the researcher tries to offer a...

according to the logic of 'weak ties' partnership organized through links with a wider range of people causes of social capital among a group of citizens will increase. so it seems, increasing participation among people, ultimately leading to increased cooperative activities among them. while the impact of social networks on political relations, much attention has been. there is very ...