the aim of this study was to survey sport sponsorship objectives of super league sponsors of iran. the method of this study was descriptive correlation. the statistical population consisted of all sponsors who sponsored 9 active sport fields in super league. the sample consisted of 134 sponsors. a research-made questionnaire was used to collect data; its content and face validity was confirmed ...

This paper reports findings from a study investigating the effect of integrating sponsored and nonsponsored search engine links into a single web listing. The premise underlying this research is that web searchers are chiefly interested in relevant results. Given the reported negative bias that web searchers have concerning sponsored links, separate listings may be a disservice to web searchers...

Many scholars have argued that British colonial rule promoted post-independence democracy, but there has been considerable debate over the robustness of this result and its causes. We show that this relationship follows a strong temporal pattern. Although former British colonies were considerably more democratic than other countries immediately following independence, subsequent convergence in ...

the United States' cold war experience was reopened when Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary responded to news media reports about government-sponsored radiation research involving hundreds of human subjects, often without their informed consent. At a December 7 press conference on her initiative to declassify some of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear research records, O'Leary commented ...

D rug development is indispensable to deal effectively with disease [1]. However, two dilemmas emerge from clinical research devoted to this goal. First, new drugs are the source of a huge economy ruled not by the standards of the medical profession, but by the rules of business and the market [2]. Second, although the testing and the medical community's " blessing " of a new drug lie entirely ...