acceptance of information and information diffusion are the traditional concepts that can be reviewed from another point of view. acceptance of innovation and innovation diffusion model are starting points for analyzing these concepts. these concepts have an important role in designing systems and popularization of sciences. in addition, it is considerable in library and information studies whi...

An increasingly popular practice for student assignment to public schools in the U.S. is the use of school choice systems. The celebrated Gale-Shapley student-optimal stable mechanism (SOSM) has recently replaced two de…cient student assignment mechanisms that were in use in New York City and Boston. We provide theoretical evidence that the SOSM outcome may produce large welfare losses. Then we...

background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

This document describes the test estimate preparation technique known as test point analysis (TPA). TPA can be used to objectively prepare an estimate for a system test or acceptance test. TPA covers only so-called black-box testing; an estimate for the test activities, which precede black-box testing (i.e. white-box testing), will already have been included in the estimate produced by function...

Objectives: Coping strategies are important following spinal cord injury (SCI). It is equally important to know the peculiar coping strategy used in a given population with a distinct cultural background. The aim of this study was to explore the peculiar coping strategies used by people with SCI in Kano.  Methods: The study was a qualitative interview approved by the research ethics commi...

this study intended to develop a model describing speaking strategies for efl learners by taking into account the effects of learners’ gender and proficiency on the application of strategies. accordingly, this study was planned to have two main analyses, namely qualitative and quantitative. in this respect, 30 efl learners' viewpoints were sought, and then, based on the elicited responses, a 21...

Occupant satisfaction and acceptance with automated control strategies for dynamic façades is currently a barrier to the upscale of these systems. Building owners, designers occupants are often unconvinced that an strategy could really be beneficial building energy efficiency occupant satisfaction. Previous work has indicated integrated multi-domain approach required capturing influence on occu...

Many centralized entry-level labor markets use the firm-proposing deferred-acceptance (DA) algorithm to compute the matching that is implemented among workers and firms. We propose a definition of the strategic options a worker faces in the DA-algorithm. Then we develop a theory to advise workers who distinguish between the firms from which they believe not to receive a proposal, the firms from...