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A survey using a convenience sample examined the relationships among blame placed on Firestone, Ford and the drivers in accidents involving Firestone tires. The amount of blame placed on one entity was unrelated to perceptions of others’ blameworthiness. Blaming Ford for the accidents predicted consumers’ desire to fine Ford, but not for more industry regulation.

The dualistic nature of the present study explored if there existed any relationship between organizational silence, job insecurity, job satisfaction, and burnout among EFL instructors and if job satisfaction me- diated the latent relationships among organizational silence, job insecurity, and burnout. To this end, 120 EFL instructors from different Azad University branches in the Fars pr...

Also available in a PDF version for printing convenience. Sequel to Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors (2008). Associated with: Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (2008) and Configuring Global Governance Groups: experimental visualization of possible integrativ...

Social advertising holds the potential to reshape the traditional advertising industry. Understanding what leads to effective social contagion at the dyadic level lies at the core of cost-effective social advertising strategies. This paper is the first attempt to comprehensively study the effect of dyadic network relationship on social contagion in directed networks. This paper reveals several ...

single score results combined score results SIFT WGC SP SC RP (1) (2) (3) Ginkaku-ji 24.72 29.87 28.87 22.60 31.20 31.68 41.92 37.67 Kinkaku-ji 45.36 44.02 43.83 33.91 23.41 50.71 52.05 49.73 Kiyomizu-dera 15.87 26.47 18.25 23.41 21.37 22.97 31.92 25.94 ・Flexiable model by going steowise from local features to global descriptors ・ Dynamic shape calculation during recognition --> convenient for ...