in this research, a comparative attachment styles in normal and delinquency adolescents was examined. participants is 60 normal adolescent (32 male and 28 female) and 60 delinquency adolescent (32 male and 28 female) tehran city. in this research the main goal of research was to assessment of. attachment styles to use of questionnaire revised adult attachment scale (raas) and for assessment per...

Modern society is critically dependent on the services provided by engineered infrastructure networks. When natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Sandy) occur, the ability of these networks to provide service is often degraded because of physical damage to network components. One of the most critical of these networks is the electrical distribution grid, with medium voltage circuits often suffering...

⎯A review of queueing applications indicates that many researchers have intelligently adapted its theoretical results to develop an easy and effective analytical tool that can be applied to manufacturing system planning. In particular, the PH/PH/1 distribution has been studied extensively for GI/G/1 queue models. We present Mathematica programs that calculate algebraically the probability distr...

This study extends research on the social performance of microfinance institutions. The research methodology is based on Grameen Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Cambodia applied to a sample of borrowers randomly extracted from a Cambodian microfinance institution's loan portfolio. Dataset has been directly collected through in-house interviews. Main questions discussed here are: (1) I...

This study examines the factors affecting the adoption and practice of knowledge management system (KMS) in Taiwan life insurance industry, using a mixed methodology approach. The research was carried out in three phases: field study, pilot survey and main survey. The main survey data were analyzed through Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. The results indicate that the external factors aff...