Digging into the history of motivation research, we deduced that, the investigations have targeted individuals’ performance as the overt indication of this invisible drive. Yet, it is hypothesized that there exists a variation of motivation which does not lead to a certain action and is only confined to one’s mental engagement with a concept or activity. To further explicate, we put forward a d...

This paper derives conditions for the absence of oscillations for a parameterized class of nonlinear environments. This class includes discrete-time environments that can exhibit non-passive behavior. The motivation for constderhg non-passive discrete-time environments is based on the fact that an interesting class of passive continuous-time environments have non-passive discrete-time counterpa...

BACKGROUND Cancer is account for 13% of all deaths around the world and is the third cause of mortality in Iran. More than one third of these cases are pre-ventable and about 33% are curable with early detection. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of cancer early detection (CED) behaviors applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). METHODS In this cross-sectional study, cl...

Genetically obese, goldthioglucose-injected, and control mice were compared for strength of hunger motivation as assessed by their performance on the following tasks: taste reactivity, readiness to eat, food-directed activity, and passive avoidance. On the basis of these tests, it appears that genetically obese mice have greater strength of hunger motivation than either goldthioglucose-injected...

Students entering Zayed University are expected to become active participants in their learning. However, the majority of these students have come from a public education system that is recognized to focus on teacher-centered passive learning. Students may be unprepared for this transition. This paper reports on a case study of changes in performance and motivation for students transitioning fr...