0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E For an organization to improve the quality of its software products and processes, it is important that individual developers have disciplined personal processes.2 We can observe the performance of an individual’s software process through particular attributes, such as lines of code developed per hour (LOC/hour) or number of defects per thou...

Mobile devices, sensors and social networks have dramatically increased the collection and sharing of personal and contextual information of individuals. Hence, users constantly make disclosure decisions on the basis of a difficult trade-off between using services and data protection. Understanding the factors linked to the disclosure behavior of personal information is a step forward to assist...

W HAT one sees, what one observes, is inevitably what one selects from a near infinitude of potential percepts. Perceptual selection depends not only upon the "primary determinants of attention" but is also a servant of one's interests, needs, and values. Can one lean on the slender reed of "the limited span of attention" and its primary determinants to explain the selectivity of perception? Th...

This paper is part of ongoing descriptions of Contextual Marketing in SMEs. To date two previous papers have addressed a variety of key factors that contribute to Contextual Marketing. Our first paper, (Carson et al 2002*), addressed the overriding theme of Contextual Marketing and considered issues such as commonalities, triggers, variances, situation specific and language/vocabulary. Our seco...

background: personal protection equipments (ppes) should be easily accessible to decrease contact with infecting factors and also should be used purposefully to effectively keep the health care personnel in a safe distance from the patient blood and body fluid which can easily infect the operating rooms personnel. this study aimed to find the operating rooms' personnel compliance with standards...

This paper studies the effects of psychological, individual, product strategy, and situational factors on the impulse purchase behavior of customers in all Refah stores located in Tehran. The paper uses Betty and Ferrell Model to set forward and to test 4 hypothesis. All four hypothesis were confirmed. The results indicated that the selected factors had impact on the impulse behavior of the con...