purpose: this paper aims to examine the role and the impact of the intellectual capital on the knowledge management in atomic energy organization of iran. methodology: the study method is descriptive correlational and the type of poll is cross-sectional. the statistical populations are the workers of the organization. the statistical sample of the study based on the morgan table is 93 people. t...

Spinal deformities are commonly associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Several questionnaires (eg, Scoliosis Research Society-24 [SRS-24] and Scoliosis Research Society-22 [SRS-22]) have been developed to evaluate HRQOL in these conditions. In adults as well as during growth, the HRQOL is considered one of the most relevant outcomes of both conservative and surgical treatm...

We describe a hybrid forecasting method called marketcast. Marketcasts are based on bid and ask orders from prediction markets, aggregated using techniques associated with survey methods, rather than market matching algorithms. We discuss the process of conversion from market orders to probability estimates, and simple aggregation methods. The performance of marketcasts is compared to a traditi...

We set up a model of elections or referendums with two alternatives to study how voter turnout and election outcomes are a¤ected by the publication of exit polls on election day. We …nd that the introduction of an exit poll in‡uences the incentive to vote both before and after the poll is published, but the sign of the e¤ect is generally ambiguous. The fact that exit polls in‡uence the incentiv...

Polls examining public opinion on the subject of climate change are now commonplace, and one-off public opinion polls provide a snapshot of citizen's opinions that can inform policy and communication strategies. However, cross-sectional polls do not track opinions over time, thus making it impossible to ascertain whether key climate change beliefs held by the same group of individuals are chang...