Smartphones are becoming ubiquitous and are owned by youngsters and oldsters alike. However, how many of them really use the "smart" functions of the mobile phone, such as mobile Internet services? Is there a generation gap in the adaptation to smartphone applications? This preliminary study suggests a novel perspective on adoption, by defining smartphone adoption as the free choice of its owne...

In many animal groups, coordinated activity is facilitated by the emergence of leaders and followers. Although the identity of leaders is to some extent predictable, most groups experience frequent changes of leadership. How do group members cope with such changes in their social role? Here, we compared the foraging behaviour of pairs of stickleback fish after a period of either (i) role reinfo...

This paper focuses on factors related to consumer complaint behavior tendency in Internet. Current literatures from home and abroad focus on how to improve consumer’s satisfaction and loyalty, while there are still relatively few researches on consumer dissatisfaction and complaint behavior. Based on the analysis of consumer complaint behavior tendency in Internet, this paper discusses the fact...

this research aims at investigating electronic journals’ acceptance among payam-e-noor university faculty members as well as studying the influential factors in that. of all faculty members approached in this study, 169 ones returned the questioners. findings show that e-journals’ acceptance among faculty members is at average level on the basis of which it seems both printed and electronic jou...

health and safety are important factors in today’s life. most of studies show that consuming the chicken that has anti biotic caused different diseases like digestive vessel cancer. attention to controlled use of antibiotics can play a key role in society health which considered in the production of green chicken. planning for increasing the production of mentioned chicken needs the investigati...