The present study seeks to examine the factors affecting information search of heads of households in purchasing an outbound package tour. A sample of 60 academics and non-academics in the field of tourism was chosen. Sampling methods were judgmental and snowball sampling. In order to gather data, we used a semi-structured interview.  Thematic analysis was applied for data analysis, and the col...

in this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. it aims to improvement of search results which leads to the higher satisfaction of users. in other words, we are trying to present a personalized search engine for each user, based on his/her activity and search history. we base our hypothesis that the search history of each user in a specific time frame...

background: knowing the rate of overlapping in results obtained from information retrieval tools is important to prevent waste of time. medical and health-related information has an outstanding place among the variety of information available on the internet. hence, this research aimed to study the rate of overlap among medical search results derived from mesh (medical subject headings) in gene...

For years, law enforcement personnel have compared DNA found at crime scenes with that of a convicted offender. Recently, a new technique has begun to focus on the genetic similarity of biological relatives. Now, if a crime scene sample partially matches the DNA profile of a previous offender, law enforcement can investigate and possibly arrest that person’s family members. This process is call...

Consider a market with identical firms offering homogeneous good. For any given ex ante distribution of the price count (the number from which consumer obtains quote), we derive tight upper bound on equilibrium sales prices. The holds across all models firms’ common-prior higher-order beliefs about count, including extreme cases full information and no information. One implication our results i...

introduction: the drive for health care and medical sciences to become evidence-based has been accelerated during recent years and therefore quick access to relevant information without the use of information and communication technology seems impossible. the aim of this study was to evaluate medical students' knowledge of computers and information science in urmia university. methods: this sur...