In this paper, we define the crowdfunding platform (CFP) a virtual place where project creators document their projects for gaining awareness or social support for making the project proceed. By doing so, project teams can voice the propositions they have worked on or they may also speak out on one party’s behalf for seeking advices. This paper proposes a research framework that targets the iss...

Discussion of a paper in RE program committees is often complicated by lack of agreement about evaluation criteria to be applied to the paper. For some years now, successive program chairs have attempted to increase clarity by including a paper classification in their CFP, and making the evaluation criteria per paper class explicit. This short note presents a paper classification based on this ...

To analyze the effects of specific regions of the aleatory and epistemic uncertain variables on the failure probability, a regional sensitivity analysis (RSA) technique called contribution to failure probability (CFP) plot is developed in this paper. This RSA technique can detect the important aleatory and epistemic uncertain variables, and also measure the contribution of specific regions of t...

Department of Physics and Materials Scien Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hon Department of Biology and Chemistry, Cit Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kon Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP), Cit Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kon Shenzhen Research Institute, City Universit † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c4ra06172a ‡ These authors contributed equally to th Cite this: ...

aim: professional commitment has been widely discussed during the last decade. there is no comprehensive definition about “professional commitment in iranian nurses.” hence, this study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the concept of professional commitment in iranian nurses. materials and methods: hybrid model was used in three phases. firstly, in the theoretical phase, data were retriev...

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between organizational trust and organizational commitment in staff. Eighty-four persons from 101 staff of department of Sports and Youth in the province of Mazandaran responded to two questionnaires of “Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI)” developed by Shockley-Zalaba, Ellis, and Winograd (2000) and “Organizational Commitment Questio...

Background. There is a limited number of studies investigating the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational silence, especially in the sports sector. Objectives. This study aims to examine the effects of organizational silence perception on organizational commitment behaviors of employees in the sports sector in Istanbul. Methods. The participants of this study were 2...