background: life style is the collection of behaviors influenced by individuals' characteristics, social interactions and socio-economic situations. since, pregnancy is a part of life it can change persons' life style. this study has tried to evaluate the relationship between life style and some characteristics of pregnant women. methods: this study was an analytic cross sectional study. the da...

The focus of the Social Activity is on making “social” a first-class citizen of the Open Web Platform by enabling standardized protocols, APIs, and an architecture for standardized communication among Social Web applications. These technologies are crucial for both federated social networking and the success of social business between and within the enterprise.

It has become well known that the knowledge about key network members is essential for doing business successfully through online social networking sites. As of now, most studies targeted at identifying key members have used network structural centrality measures. Little emphasis has been placed on member activities to identify key members in a network; even though gathering and utilizing such ...

Assigned textbook readings are a common requirement in undergraduate courses, but students often do not complete reading assignments or do not do so until immediately before an exam. This may have detrimental effects on learning and course performance. Regularly scheduled quizzes on reading material may increase completion of reading assignments and therefore course performance. This study exam...

The knowledge about people daily activities is of great value for several application domains. On the one hand, the activity recognition in trajectories has not been deeply investigated. On the other hand, social media data such as tweets can be rich in information about where people go and what they do. We strongly believe that the integration of trajectory data and social media can reveal the...

The term evilness started to become popular in social psychology after the publication in 1999 of the special issue edited by Arthur G. Miller, "Perspectives on evil and violence". It is usually used to define behaviors that are extremely and strongly harmful. However, the concept is still imprecise and needs to be empirically delineated. This article attempts to answer the following questions....

political participation is considered to be one of the major indicators of development. women as a part of the human capitals of every society can play a determinant role in running the country with their political participation. the purpose of the research is to examine some of the factors affecting the rate of political participation of women in the society. research method in the investigati...

background and purpose: physical activity may be classified as intense, moderate, and low. despite their health-related benefits, iranian women have a low rate of physical activity. women face numerous obstacles and challenges for participating in physical activity programs, most notably are household chores and taking caring of children, long distance between home and workplace and the other p...