Intrinsic motivation has been reported to be one of the strongest determinants of exercise adherence. The role of competition in exergames was studied to determine the ways to increase intrinsic motivation. We tested the competitive exercise setting as a contextual factor, and competitiveness as individual characteristic, to investigate their effect on intrinsic motivation using psychological, ...

Despite the increasing use of e-mediated services to settle divorce, research on its effectiveness is limited. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of an asynchronous e-supported tool to mediate divorces in the Netherlands. In order to do so, we rely on (a) the number of agreements reached and (objective) (b) with the help of a survey, we ask men and women about their perceptions of ...

Asynchronous machines are predominantly preferred in industrial sectors for its reliability. Power quality perturbations have a greater impact on industries; among the different power events, voltage fluctuations most common and that may cause adverse effect machine's operation since they longer enduring. The article discusses numerical technique evaluating asynchronous motors while taking into...

Distributed computing using networked workstations o ers cost-e cient parallel computing, but the higher rate of failure requires e ective fault-tolerance. Asynchronous consistent checkpointing o ers a low-overhead solution. Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) allows a heterogeneous network of UNIX workstations to serve immmediately as a distributed computer by providing message-passing services imp...

The importance of classroom interaction in learning has been widely researched. Through the lens sociocultural theory, could be seen as mediation for where learners develop their knowledge and understandings through collaborative activities dialogic processes which take place during process class. This paper qualitatively explores types that an online environment to analyze factors impacted sha...

Relationship marketing—establishing, developing, and maintaining successful relational exchanges—constitutes a major shift in marketing theory and practice. After conceptualizing relationship marketing and discussing its ten forms, the authors (1) theorize that successful relationship marketing requires relationship commitment and tnjst, (2) model relationship commitment and trust as key mediat...

This paper will explore if and how psychological strain plays a mediator role between the learning climate and job performance in a group of health workers. Although the relationship between learning climate and job performance has already been explored in the international literature, the role of psychological strain, which may hamper or deepen this relationship, has yet to be investigated. Th...

Online discussion activities are designed for computer-mediated learning activities in face-to-face, hybrid, and totally online courses. The use of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (A-CMC) coupled with authentic workplace case studies provides students in the protected learning environment with opportunities to practice workplace decision making and communication. In this study, com...

Narrative Mediation is a new approach to mediation that was spurned by Narrative Family Therapy, developed in the mid-1980s by Michael White and David Epston, in Australia. It came out of their interest in post-modernism and social constructionism, in examining the making of meaning through the filter of language and the subjective interpretation of “facts”. While Narrative Therapy has become r...