Using an Italian land use conflict on the building a high-speed railway (HSR) as case study, we analyzed how perceived changes in public opinion influence (a) people’s willingness to speak out, and (b) subsequently their intentions engage action (N = 311). Regardless of whether they were majority or minority side conflict, citizens’ out was positively associated with perceptions that position b...

conclusions willingness to pay can be affected by experiencing an accident, the distance of the daily trip, and helmet use. the cost of traffic injuries among motorcyclists shows that this rate is much higher than the global average. thus, expenditure should be made on effective initiatives such as the safety of motorcyclists. results the mean wtp was 888,110 irr (iranian rial) among motorcycli...

given the fact that developing an intimate relationship between teacher and students creates a safe learning environment (harran, 2006), and because teacher immediacy is proved to increase students’ motivation for learning (velez & cano, 2008), this study was an attempt to explore the relationship between iranian efl learners’ perceived teacher immediacy and their willingness to communicate...

Aims: The Pap smear test as the primary screening test for cervical cancer has a low application rate among Iranian women. This study aimed to explore Iranian women’s Pap smear test experiences at healthcare centers. Participants & Methods: This qualitative study was carried out in Varamin City, in 2018. To this end, 15 women admitted to healthcare centers were selected using purposive samplin...

Peer-to-peer computing (P2P) draws growing interest as a new distributed computing paradigm for its potential to harness “edge” computers (e.g., PCs) and make their under-utilized resources available to each other. P2P based e-commerce on the Internet is of particular interest because of P2P’s cost effectiveness and redundancy-induced dependability. Beneath the promising benefits lie daunting c...

When we commented on the Brussels bombings in Issue 3, we did not imagine that further shocking violence would be in the forefront of our minds only a few months later. Two horrific events in recent weeks have brought tragedy to the lives of individuals and families and forced into public consciousness issues of principle which lie at their heart. The mass shootings in the early hours of Sunday...