This paper investigates the extent to which differences in people’s socio-political attitudes and behaviours are underpinned by individual characteristics. Two groups of volunteers: (a) an Iranian sample that have been resident in UK for less than two years, and (b) a British sample, took part in this study. A series of validated scales was used to examine differences in levels of empathy, theo...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that older patients may be reluctant to engage general practice registrars (GPRs) in their care. The authors undertook a qualitative study of the attitudes of older patients to GPRs to investigate this issue. METHOD Thirty-eight patients aged 60 years and over from three training practices participated in semistructured telephone interviews, which explored patient...

The presented publication is aimed at determining the mechanism and sources of formation trust relationships in stakeholder network closer defining content process their formation. article defines most significant strengthening relations microeconomic level, which are: openness availability information; solving social problems; ability each participant relationship to express interests influenc...

The concept of public value is becoming increasingly popular as the modern driver for the development of electronic government worldwide. As a result, adequately evaluating the public value of e-government becomes critical, exemplified by the development of several frameworks in this regard. These frameworks, however, suffer from various shortcomings for effectively evaluating the public value ...

Background: Psychological characteristics affect the quality of life. This study aimed at determining the relationship between personal characteristics, internal locus of control , psychological hardiness and nurses’ quality of life. Methods: In this correlation study, 297 nurses were selected based on Curgesy and Morgan table via multistage cluster sampling among 1023 nurses of the pu...

We estimated the effect of human capital on leadership. Our human capital measures included not only the traditional measures of education and on-the-job learning but also measures of cognitive and noncognitive abilities. The measures of cognitive abilities included numeracy, literacy, and problem solving, and the noncognitive abilities measures included perseverance, openness to learning, and ...

In this paper, we develop a framework for assessing innovation collaboration partners. Based on the studies explaining theinternationalisation of inventive activity, we identify four elements that are drivers of innovation collaboration: inventivecapacity, technological specialization patterns, openness to international innovation collaboration and the economic potential oftechn...

trust is an important element in human relations and cooperation between members of the organization. trust can be the interpersonal or inter-group, in special mode; or be generalized and related to the whole organization in general mode. special-generalized trust as a complex interactive process is influenced by various personal and social factors and variables. some of the most important fact...

Technology revolution in recent years has increased the demand for the provision of e-learning. However, academic staff lack the knowledge-sharing attitude in e-learning communities. The aim of this research is to investigate the various factors of knowledge sharing adoption for e-learning communities in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, a framework aimed at sharing knowledge within the e-learning commu...

Multimedia content delivery to capable smart phones with high-speed next-generation Internet connectivity is becoming commonplace. However, the openness of delivery demands adaptive and robust management of intellectual property rights. The purpose of this article is to describe a framework to address the central issues in content delivery: a scalable peer-to-peer-based content delivery model. ...