Spatial predictions of soil moisture content in arid lands are necessary for soil survey, land evaluation, hydrological modeling, land use planning and sustainable land use. Multiple-linear regression models with land use and terrain indices were developed to spatially predict soil moisture using six methods. The performance of six models was evaluated using 13 indices based on biweekly-measure...

When applying structural equation modeling (SEM) technique for analytical procedures, various issues are involved. These issues may concern sample size, overall fit indices and approach. Initiates of SEM may find it somewhat daunting in resolving these technical issues. The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues in adopting SEM technique and various approaches available. This paper pr...

A number of citation indices have been proposed for measuring and ranking the research publication records of scholars. Some of the best known indices are designed to reward most highly those records x that strike some balance between impact I and productivity P ; a large number of publications with few citations per paper will not score well, nor will a very small number of heavily cited paper...

BACKGROUND The hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) is a common screening tool designed to measure the level of anxiety and depression in different factor structures and has been extensively used in non-psychiatric populations and individuals experiencing fertility problems. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to evaluate the factor structure, item analyses, and internal consistency...

We adopted a person–organization (P–O) fit framework to examine applicant attraction to an organization in the context of Web-based recruitment. A total of 121 undergraduate business students participated in a two-stage study first by completing a paper-and-pencil survey and second, by visiting a fictitious recruitment Web site in which the researchers manipulated the fit feedback information p...

1 Anscombe’s term for such knowledge in Intention is “practical knowledge”. However, I have avoided that term as I wish to defend the idea that agents have a distinctive non-observational knowledge of their actions without being committed to her claims about the existence of a kind of knowledge with a reverse direction of fit from ordinary knowledge. 2 The idea originates in English speaking ph...

introduction: the concept of organizational culture usually is considered as a moderating factor in using information technology (it). the present study aimed to review the association between harrison cultural typology and the acceptance of hospital information system (his) by its users in non-university hospitals of iran university of medical sciences (tehran, iran). methods: this research wa...

Repeatability and reproducibility indices are often used in gait analysis to validate models and assess patients in their follow-up. When comparing joint kinematics, their interpretation can be ambiguous due to a lack of understanding of the exact sources of their variations. This paper studied four indices (Root Mean Square Deviation, Mean Absolute Variability, Coefficient of Multiple Correlat...

Accounts Wagenaar and Boer (1987) outlined three competing theoretical accounts of the effect of misleading postevent information on memory. Loftus’ destructive updating model (DUM) posits that the conflicting information replaces and destroys the original memory. A coexistence model (CXM) asserts that an inhibition mechanism suppresses the original memory, “model fit indices” are in fact more ...