Previous papers mostly dealt with specific views of information security management (either technical, organizational for instance). Recently, major progress has been achieved in the development of a business driven approach with BORIS (Business Oriented management of Information Security) and a process-oriented approach called ORBIT (Operational Risks in Business and IT). An integrated framewo...

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...

background: infertile couples are faced with problems that affect their marital life. infertility treatment is expensive and time consuming and occasionally isn’t simply possible. prediction models for infertility treatment have been proposed and prediction of treatment success is a new field in infertility treatment. because prediction of treatment success is a new need for infertile couples, ...

This paper studies a model of interpersonal bundling, in which a monopolist offers a good for sale under a regular price and a group purchase discount if the number of consumers in a group– the bundle size– belongs to some menu of intervals. We find that this is often a profitable selling strategy in response to demand uncertainty, and it can achieve the highest profit among all possible sellin...

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) are subject to constant change and variation. In this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. Once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. We construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...