intordaction : religion and its concepts have been a main as well as unique source in producing social capital. the development of social capital, as the raw material for a civil society, depends on certain variables including religion and religious culture. in spite of numerous researches on social capital and its factors, there are few systematic studies undertaken to examine interrelationshi...

organic farming as an approach to sustainable agriculture tries to decrease environmental problems and possible health hazards caused by the residues from pesticides. since the agricultural professionals are responsible to inform the farmers and the public by education and extension efforts, it is necessary to understand their attitudes. the main purpose of this research was to investigate fact...

There is considerable long-term interest in understanding the dynamics of collaboration networks, and how these networks form and evolve over time. Most of the work done on the dynamics of social networks focuses on well-established communities. Work examining emerging social networks is rarer, simply because data is difficult to obtain in real time. In this paper, we use thirty years of data f...

Let α1, α2, . . . , αn, β1, β2, . . . , βn be strictly positive reals with α1 +α2 + · · ·+αn = β1 + β2 + · · ·+ βn = s. In this paper, the inequality |||Aα1Bβ1Aα2 · · ·AαnBβn ||| ≤ |||AB|||s when A and B are positive-definite matrices is studied. Related questions are also studied.

As the population of Facebook users continues to grow, companies are paying increasing attention to the influence of social networks to promote brands. They are using this emerging platform to carry out marketing activities. However, fewer studies have actually discussed the benefit which brands could attain by operating on a social networking site. Therefore, this study aims to understand the ...

The Morphogenetic Approach (MA) was developed to explain social structural change processes by sociologist Margaret Archer in 1995. MA became a remarkable and much-debated approach shortly in social sciences because of its unique consideration about structure and agency dualism. Although MA has been discussed intensively in the science world, its appropriateness to real world situations has sli...

By using Social Network Services (SNSs) as platforms, game developers have gathered a huge user base, and the entertainment these games provide has further enlarged the SNS user base. However, there are signs that this symbiotic growth is slowing down. We developed a model and tested 14 hypotheses. Our main findings are: Although SNSs are “social,” “social norms” do not have much impact on the ...