in this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. it has been tried to study a qajar1 house in tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.methods and viewpoints of amos rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. the main reason for using rapoport's viewpoints to understand salmasi house, as a case study, in addition to...

E-government services aims to provide citizens with more accessible, accurate, real-time and high quality services and information. Although the public sectors in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have promoted their e-Government services for many years, its uses and achievements are few. Therefore, this paper explores the key factors of Saudi citizens’ acceptance through a research survey and by g...

Beni Lew, Lolita Trachtengertz, Shany Ratsin, Gideon Oron and Amos Bick* 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel 2 Agriculture Research Organization Volcani Center, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bet Dagan, Israel 3 The Department of Chemical Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel 4 Department of Environment Water Resources, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and a transactional leadership component (management by exception-active), and fulfillment of the basic needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on cross sectional data from 661 employees who completed validated questionnaires such as the ...

This paper examines job searching among employed job seekers through the social networking sites. One hundred ninety survey questionnaires were distributed to employed job seekers who have used online social networking sites via the snowball sampling approach. The collected data were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique via the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS 16) compu...

This article describes a new model for urban planning in ancient and preindustrial cities that moves beyond the traditional simplistic dichotomy of planned versus organic cities. The model has two components: coordination of buildings and spaces, and standardization among cities. A variety of coordinated arrangements of buildings reflect urban planning, including simple coordination, formality ...

Engineering applications that use Active DBMSs (ADBMSs) often need to group activities into modes that are shifted during the execution of different tasks. This paper presents a mechanism for grouping rules into contexts that can be activated and deactivated dynamically. The ADBMS monitors only those events that affect rules of activated contexts. By dynamic rule grouping the rules to be monito...

This paper examines the impact of net-enablement capability on the innovation in business model for online selling utilizing the Net-enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) theoretical framework. Based on a sample of 296 online sellers across different Canadian sectors, the paper empirically tests for the invariant in the relationship between net-enablement capability and the innovation in on...

This study analyzes the impact of brand extension strategies upon Competitive Advantage in Service Companies from Costumers point of View among Parsian Bank and its Affiliated Service Companies in Isfahan City. In this study, for collecting data a questionnaire was used. The samples were selected randomly. Also, SPSS and Amos software were used to analyze data and test hypotheses .The results i...

In the era of gender equality, females’ work competency is praised and valued in the modern workplace, and physical gender becomes insignificant. However, does the difference of gender roles influence workers’ performance in the work environment? It is an important question. Hence, this study probed into relationship between gender roles, and job stress, and treats the Adversity Quotient as mod...