Abstract. This article uses a person-environment fit perspective to investigate whether and how educational background general trust are related (or not) with university life as well criteria of subjective academic success well-being. To analyze students perceive their university, we measured perception exclusion affective commitment. The sample includes N = 424 from two German universities, ab...

Purpose Scholars have typically examined family business exposure as an aggregate variable. However, it is probable that this trend oversimplifies the complexity of and its nuanced influence on entrepreneurial behaviour. Thus, to extend theoretical boundary, inquiry investigates distinct dimensions in Nigeria while drawing theory planned Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from five...

CONTEXT Although premarital heterosexual relationships, especially those involving sexual contact, are discouraged in Iran, particularly for females, a considerable minority of young people are involved in such relationships. However, the determinants of such relationships have not been identified, especially those pertaining to family. METHODS In 2005-2006, a random sample of 1,378 unmarried...

Survivable systems—that is, systems that can continue to provide service despite failures, intrusions, and other threats—are increasingly needed in a wide variety of civilian and military application areas. As a step toward realizing such systems, this paper advocates the use of redundancy and adaptation to build survivable services that can provide core functionality for implementing survivabi...

The parent–provider relationship has been purported to be a central mechanism by which home-based parenting education and family support programs affect child and family outcomes. Despite its centrality in the theory of such programs, we have limited knowledge of how this relationship develops and functions, and how it may influence program outcomes. This article describes three levels of exami...

What is the effect of the AFDC-Unemployed Parent (UP) program on two-parent families? This question has become particularly relevant following the passage of the Family Support Act (FSA) of 1988, effective October 1990, which extended the previously state-optional AFDC-Unemployed Parent program to all states. This study clarifies what is meant by "two-parent" family in the federal legislation a...

allen P10lern (samt den Exilanten auf Z10) – f ¨ ur alle Hilfsbereitschaft und die entspannte und freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (und die dazugehörigen Kaffeepausen) meiner Familie – f ¨ ur die uneingeschränkte Unterstützung in allen Lebenslagen

Using hierarchical structurings in process design is a frequent process modeling technique. Subprocesses are a common way to enable hierarchical structuring. Current approaches have a tight view on the syntactical restrictions of subprocesses and do not investigate different autonomy properties in detail. This paper fills this gap and broadens the current subprocess definition to a spectrum of ...

todays, the parent company has a great role in managing and monitoring subsidiaries and companies in promoting their industrial activities. but, the main problem for pharmaceutical parent companies is the lack of clarity and confusion of responsibilities between units. successful parenting needs to create the element of 'fit' between the ways parent operates – parent characteristics –...