the purpose of this study was designing predictive model for innovation management in processing and complementary industries of livestock products. the method of research was correlative descriptive. the population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of livestock products of khouzestan province (n=486). by stratified random sampling, a random sample (n=125)...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are beholden to the scholarly works of others. From the time as a student with formal course papers through the time of practice and into the time of authorship, the knowledge gained from those before us has shaped our thinking and decision making and has directly influenced our work. As professionals, NPs are expected to be effective stewards of the profession by cont...

With the embedding of EEG (electro-encephalography) sensors in wireless headsets and other consumer electronics, authenticating users based on their brainwave signals has become a realistic possibility. We undertake an experimental study of the usability and performance of user authentication using consumer-grade EEG sensor technology. By choosing custom tasks and custom acceptance thresholds f...

We annotate individual posts following the approach in [1], [2]. Tweets are grouped by topic based on included topic hashtags. For example, tweets relating to the topic of president Barack Obama contain the hashtag #obama within them. The topic-related tweets often contain other hashtags which we assign a preliminary sentiment probability (positive and negative) using the Multinomial Naive Baye...

Building on intergroup emotion research, we test the idea that intergroup emotion influences self-categorization. We report two studies using minimal (Study 1) and natural (Study 2) groups in which we measured participants' emotional reactions to a group-relevant event before manipulating the emotional reactions of other ingroup members and outgroup members (anger vs. happiness in Study 1; ange...

Background: Biological events including epidemics, pandemics, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases have significant adverse consequences on health. The hospitals have a major role in the management of outbreaks and mitigation of effects. During pandemics health systems especially, hospitals may be affected. Methods: Therefore, the current study aimed to collect and analyze lessons lea...