aim and background: tobacco dependency is recognized as the first factor for the prevention of mortality worldwide. despite the negative impact of smoking on hypertension, therapists have been paid less attention to the effectiveness of psychological treatment of nicotine dependence of these patients. methods and materials: in this case- control pre-post test research with a quasi-experimental ...

Behavioral programming is an approach for non-intrusive incremental software development. Introduced through scenario-based programming in the language of live sequence charts (LSC), it is now implemented also in Java and in the functional programming language Erlang. Behavioral programming calls for constructing systems from threads of behavior, each of which independently represents (a part o...

Information Security (InfoSec) research is far reaching and includes many approaches to deal with protecting and mitigating threats to the information assets and technical resources available within computer based systems. Although a predominant weakness in properly securing information assets is the individual user within an organization, much of the focus of extant security research is on tec...

Human behavior can prevent or invite disease and is a major determinant of treatment success. Consequently, many efforts have been directed toward developing interventions to promote behaviors essential to managing or preventing respiratory disease. The process of developing, testing, and disseminating health behavior interventions should closely follow the translational research paradigm. Howe...

Behavioral accounting research deals with a complex set of phenomenon including the broad domain of human decision making under uncertainty. Two aspects of decision making of particular relevance to accounting and auditing research are two constructs that are inexorably interrelated: uncertainty and information (evidence). This paper introduces a theoretical perspective that enriches the knowle...

entrepreneurship culture and organizational citizenship behavior (o.c.b) are two important behavioral issues that has important role in organizational behavior management theories field today. this two issues, have many concepts in common, and it seems that they are inter influential. with regard to these two important behavioral components, are had tried to define the issues clearly and their ...

background: laps is one of the challenges in the treatment of opioid dependency that cause relapse. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of behavioral group therapy and cognitive-behavioral group therapy on the laps rate and persistence in the treatment of patients with opioid dependency under the treatment of mmt. methods: in a quasi-experimental study, 66 patients were...