Recent technological advances in geo-positioning, mobile communications, and computing hardware are combining to offer new opportunities for improved collective transport services. While the routes are getting more and more congested, it is important to attract people to use public transport, which should be more attractive compared to the private cars. This paper presents the objectives of the...

The frequencies of collective behavior are getting higher in virtual communities. Most studies regarding collective behavior on Internet focuses on investigating the behavior per se, and few are addressing the contributing factors and the moderating effects of the community platforms. Even if a swarm of people gathering and interacting on virtual communities, they are just one single person sit...

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...

Personal growth is usually considered an outcome of intrapersonal processes-personal resources residing within the person. Comparatively, little research has examined the interpersonal processes underlying personal growth. We investigated how one interpersonal factor-people's relationships with others-influences personal growth. Study 1 showed that brief reminders of a supportive (vs. nonsuppor...

During the pandemic that has affected world, it is also important healthcare professionals, who are at forefront, experience expression of their feelings and thoughts, together with effort they have shown while using professional knowledge skills. In this context, purpose research to reveal views feelings, thoughts experienced by professionals. To reach workers, Izmir was chosen as one cities i...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to understand how students graduating from accounting master’s courses perceived the feelings experienced in different dissertation guidance phases. This investigation enables us identify which stages generate negative and thus propose actions improve affective relationship between advisor student, considering that substantially affect potential scientific wor...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Recent demographic growth of the U.S. Chinese aging population calls for comprehensive understanding of their unique health needs. The objective of this study is to examine the perceptions, social determinants of depressive symptoms as well as their impact on health and well-being in a community-dwelling U.S. Chinese aging population in Chicago. DESIGN AND METHODS A commu...