Reducing the extent and persuasive power of marketing unhealthy foods to children worldwide are important obesity prevention goals. Research is limited to understand how brand mascots and cartoon media characters influence children's diet. We conducted a systematic review of five electronic databases (2000-2014) to identify experimental studies that measured how food companies' mascots and ente...

In view of increasing use technologies and their impacts in businesses, companies are now using technology to accelerate business processes. However, some still failing achieve the desired promising results by technology. Technology any company succeeds only when people working accept wholeheartedly show diligence learning it. this research we have evaluated perceptions about a called Citrix Wo...

Companies are faced with serious challenges in environmental and economic crisis. It may become a threat to their financial performance and viability. Thus, there is an urgent need for being resilient in the event of any disruption. The present study aims to assess the performance of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in terms of resilience factors. A standardized questionnaire containing...

to be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. so these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...

We introduce the notation of organizational signature. This is a new variant of digital signature, which allows the organization to obtain the signature of any employee not as an individual but through his affiliation. Due to this signature, an organization, e.g. company, can create different signatures related to each position. Elliptic curves discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) has a low compu...

Inherent in any organization are security risks and barriers that must be understood, analyzed, and minimized in order to prepare for and perpetuate future growth and return on investment within the business. Likewise, company leaders must determine the security health of the organization and routinely review the potential threats that are ever changing in this new global economy. Once these ri...

The process of innovation involves getting new ideas accepted and new technologies adopted and used. This paper considers the introduction of ICT in company training as an example of innovation. The question that must be addressed is: what factors inside and outside the company will support, and what factors will stand in the way of the adoption of these new methods? We argue that the acceptanc...

Abstract: One of basic principle of any organization is to assure about obtained figures from measuring products. If the measured data was not trusted, will be lead to a wrong decisions regarding the approval or rejection of products and obviously the cost would be great. First cases in measurement systems analysis which crossing minds are criteria for approval or rejection any mea...

Fans of TV science programs were likely captivated by the documentary about human evolution that premiered on PBS stations in 2014. ‘‘Your Inner Fish’’ provided a guided tour of the human body and where its many features came from— color vision and brain anatomy from primates, teeth and skin and hair from ancient reptiles, necks and fingers and eyes from primordial fish. The three-part series c...