Trust is considered one of the most important factors for successfully managing software outsourcing relationships. However, there is lack of research into factors that are considered important in establishing and maintaining trust between clients and vendors. The goal of this research is to gain an understanding of vendors’ perceptions of the importance of factors that are critical to the esta...

Research on trust in e-commerce typically views trust as an important condition of successful commercial exchange. It aims to identify relevant factors of trust and establish how these influence potential buyers' decisions to interact with vendors. The aim is to provide ways of increasing trust. This paper questions the validity of this traditional approach to trust in e-commerce. It criticizes...

In light of the new interest in remote application hosting, or application service provision (ASP), this study aims at empirically testing the ASP Intention Model (AIM), by surveying 143 decision makers in organizations. The model, based on institutional theories, reflects factors affecting organizational intention to adopt remote application hosting: perceived business benefits of ASP, perceiv...

As China’s accession into the World Trade Organization and opening its financial market, competition in the banking industry is getting throat-cutting in China. Using Internet banking to acquire market shares is critical for banks’ survival and therefore understanding drivers for Internet banking adoption is critical for banks’ success. Applying Davis’s technology acceptance model and incorpora...

the quality of learning is one of the basic elements in every society to reach achievements. this subject has more importance on e-learning. accordingly, the present study explains the affecting factors on e-learning programs’ effectiveness. regarding the aims, the present research is descriptive and regarding the application is practical. data collection method is research made questioner. in ...

To examine the effects of stress, bruxism, malocclusion, and oral habits on incidence temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) using a classification tree method (CTM). We obtained data from total 1.338 patients: 669 who had TMDs but haven’t TMDs. recorded interview stress habits, during examination, noted malocclusions, any sign poor habits. All were subjected to CTM analyses. The TMD rate was highe...

many factors may be involved in determining why some students are more and some are less proficient in language. this study tried to explore the factors affecting iranian efl learners’ proficiency. 221 students at second, third and fourth year of university, including 50 male and 171 female were selected randomly to participate in the study. a researcher-made questionnaire and a proficiency tes...