Given the importance of maintaining mutuality in interdependent relationships, the goal of the present research was to determine if interpersonal trust serves as a gauge of partners’ commitment within young adults’ close friendships. It was hypothesized that individuals trust their friends to the degree that their friends are committed to their relationship, and that individuals’ perceptions of...

We consider the partially linear model relating a response Y to predictors (X;T ) with mean function X + g(T ) when the X 's are measured with additive error. The semiparametric likelihood estimate of Severini and Staniswallis (1994) leads to biased estimates of both the parameter and the function g( ) when measurement error is ignored. We derive a simple modi cation of their estimator which is...

This  paper  presents  an attempt  to use Agnew’s General Strain Theory ( GST) (1992) for explanation of the  criminal behavior  differences between  young males and females in Babol, a city in northern part of Iran. General Strain Theory (GST) is essentially regarded as a set of ideas formulated to explain the occurrence of crime as a result of the strain in social life. This study explores th...

a deterministic model was employed to simulate various progeny testing programs compatible with the conditions of holstein dairy cattle population in iran. in simulated programs, the selection intensity of bulls was increased by increasing the ratio of cow population in mate with young bulls. selection accuracy in the programs was fixed because of the fixed progeny group. economic efficiency (t...

the aim of the present study was to investigate coaches and young athletes' self-efficacy andyoung athletes' enjoyment from physical activity. the study examined the effect of self-efficacy on enjoyment from physical activity in young athletes using structural equation model (sem) and lisrel software. results showed thatcoaches' self-efficacyhad no significant effects onstudents&...

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neuroinflammatory disease that leads to distribute neurodegeneration in the grey and white matter of the brain.  In MS, age-related iron accumulation, chronic oxidative injury and activation of microglia are key factors to create neurodegeneration. Also concentration of CCL11 is increased in   multiple sclerosis. CCL11 can amplify glu...