abstract: this study was aimed to investigate relationship between child rearing styles and young’s early maladaptive schemas(emss).the child rearing questionnaire and young’s schema questionnaire ( short form) was administered to a sample of 150 students in college. multiple regression analysis revealed that child rearing styles predicted some of emss. results indicated that authoritative styl...

We use heavy-traffic limits and computer simulation to study the performance of alternative real-time delay estimators in the overloaded GI/GI/s+GI multiserver queueing model, allowing customer abandonment. These delay estimates may be used to make delay announcements in call centers and related service systems. We characterize performance by the expected mean squared error in steady state. We ...

BACKGROUND In 2008, specialty medications accounted for 15.1% of total pharmacy benefit medication spending, and per member expenditures have increased by 11.1% annually from 2004 to 2008 within a commercially insured population of 8 million members. Insurers face increasing pressure to control specialty medication expenditures and to rely on increasing member cost share through creation of a f...

Background: Obscured by the more prevalent discussion of intensification and expansion of agricultural land, the impacts of the abandonment of many grasslands and croplands of the world in recent decades have received limited attention in the literature. Land abandonment is a common phenomenon in the Mediterranean Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, but little is known about the impacts of th...

abstraCt This article deals with the simplest abandonment model in which the customer's patience is exponentially distributed and the capacity of the system is unlimited. Sze (1984, 229-249) has designed a queuing model for the telephone operating system without abandonment. The most common model which supports the workforce management of the telephone centre is M/M/N/B and some special cases c...

Many e-commerce websites struggle to turn visitors into real buyers. Understanding online users’ realtime intent and dynamic shopping cart choices may have important implications in this realm. This study presents an individual-level, dynamic model with concurrent optimal page adaptation that learns users’ real-time, unobserved intent from their online cart choices, then immediately performs op...

The performance of a call center is sensitive to customer abandonment. In this survey paper, we focus on / / G GI n GI  parallel-server queues that serve as a building block to model call center operations. Such a queue has a general arrival process (the G ), independent and identically distributed (iid) service times with a general distribution (the first GI ), and iid patience times with a g...

This article aims to summarise the results of three periods fieldwork carried out since 2006. These are Cambridge Keros Project 2006–2008, Island Survey 2012–2013, and Keros-Naxos Seaways 2015–2018. Taken together, these form a coherent, large-scale project that aimed study maritime landscape in some depth, putting Kavos Dhaskalio sites broader context, while through excavation understanding gr...

Although the adoption of new technology has received significant attention in management research, the study of abandonment has lagged. While abandonment often occurs as a dual to the adoption of a superior technology, technology use may also decline in light of questionable efficacy. Arguing that organizational incentives which are aligned during periods of adoption may become misaligned durin...

patients and methods the study sample was selected randomly and consisted of 200 (age group 16-60 y) depressed females (mild to moderate); 100 from tehran (iran) and another 100 from pune (india). the type of the research was causal-comparative. the data collection took place in hospitals and clinics in the targeted cities. descriptive statistic tests and hierarchical multiple regression were e...