conclusions these results emphasize that an inappropriate decision making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior in adolescents. the fathers’ parenting is more strongly linked to their sons’ delinquency. so, family power structure and parent-child relationship can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescents’ delinquency...

A mobile agent based framweork for the transparant distribution and concurrent execution of computations is presented. The framework uses design patterns like the master-slave, abstract factory or the strategy pattern. The architecture of the framework is built on top of a mobile agent system. A performance model allows to identify performance bottlenecks and unbalanced situations within the fr...

Activity data accumulated in real life, e.g. in terrorist activities and fraudulent customer contacts, presents special structural and semantic complexities. However, it may lead to or be associated with significant business impacts. For instance, a series of terrorist activities may trigger a disaster to the society, large amounts of fraudulent activities in social security program may result ...

Equity theory suggests that relationships are more harmonious when both members of a dyad believe that their exchanges are fair. However, the level and frequency of exchange, rather than perceptions of equity, have been the focus of most research on support and the quality of intergenerational relations. Using data from 1,426 mother-child dyads nested within 413 families collected as part of th...

objecitve: there have been contradictory findings on the relationship between socioeconomic status (ses) and child development although a wide range of results indicates that ses is associated with child development outcomes. the present study intended to define the relationship between ses and child development in tehran kindergartens. methods: this cross-sectional survey studied 1036 children...