objectives: the attentional control scale is a self- report questionnaire that assesses individual differences in attentional control. despite its extensive use, the psychometric properties of the persian version of the acs are not well understood. thus, the present study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of the attentional control scale and its relationship with symptoms of an...

in this paper, considering the importance of opinion leadership and use of social networks for marketing, over 90 articles are studied and a comprehensive review of different studies in this area has been done. studies show that different titles such as opinion leader, influential people, market maven and key player are used to refer to influential groups in social networks. notwithstanding the...

In the past, most researchers focused on the efficacy of tie-strength in various applications for both online and offline social networks. However, how tie-strength can help in the analysis of online social networks was a commonly neglected issue. The massive size and recording properties of online social networks offer the possibility to measure tie-strength objectively. In this study, we exam...

Social network analysis has been used in many research areas to discover the intrinsic mechanisms of social communities by examining the topological properties of the social network formed by relationships between the actors and the groups in those communities. In this chapter, we construct four social networks for the Open Source Software (OSS) development community at SourceForge (Sourceforge...

Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50 and 52, respectively) and novel (Experiment 3, N...

Dendrimers are a new class of polymeric materials. They are highly branched, monodisperse macromolecules. The structure of these materials has a great impact on their physical and chemical properties. As a result of their unique behaviour dendrimers are suitable for a wide range of biomedical and industrial applications. The paper gives a concise review of dendrimers' physico-chemical propertie...