This paper considers a mechanism in which consumers make decisions to take up innovations and suggests that consumer innovation uptakes should be looked at from the consumption point of view. There is a gap in our knowledge of the way consumer cultures of consumption and lifestyles explain their decisions to adopt innovations, as existing research mainly looks at the technical functionalities a...

The ecological traits and functional capabilities of marine animals have changed significantly since their origin in the late Precambrian. These changes can be analysed quantitatively using multi-dimensional parameter spaces in which the ecological lifestyles of species are represented by particular combinations of parameter values. Here, we present models that describe the filling of this mult...

Although lifestyles are the series of daily practices of social actors in the context of everyday lives, lifestyles are the renewal and inspiration of other plans. Furthermore, these styles can be an opportunity to challenge the established orders and meaning constructions. This research followed the analysis of these phenomena in Dezful using Hermeneutical phenomenology method and interview to...

in most countries, educational programs and condom use is recommended as the most important approaches in controlling hiv infection. we examine the role of different approaches in controlling aids epidemics in our region. we find a high failure rate and probably undesirable effects for condom recommendation in epidemiological scale especially considering the low prevalence of hiv infection in o...

Using a function algebra characterization of exponential time due to Monien 5], in the style of Bellantoni-Cook 2], we characterize exponential time functions of linear growth via a safe course-of-values recursion scheme.