the aim of this study was to examine sport commitment model in women participating in sport activities. the population of this study consisted of all women (n=6000) who participated in sport activities in mashhad municipality. 526 subjects were studied as the sample. the demographic and sport commitment model (scanlan, 1993) questionnaires were used to collect the data. findings indicated that ...

in recent years sustainable development has been one of the concerns of man. to address this concern farming sustainable development will be one of the most important issues which must be dealt with. it seems that one of the necessary elements to further this goal is to have a serious look at indigenous knowledge of farming and particularly women’s knowledge. women and above all nomad women hav...

introduction: commitment of staff is intangible asset that can highly provide better services. since providing healthcare services is only possible through efficient human resources, this study evaluated the association between person-organization fit and organizational commitment of staff in university hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences, iran. methods: this was a descriptive an...

Organic farming has become increasingly popular in the world. This is mostly attributed toescalating consumer concerns over the impacts of pesticides and chemical fertilizers on humanhealth as well as growing concerns over environmental pollution derived from modernagricultural practices, such as rising greenhouse gas emissions and water contaminations. Butdoes organic farming actually displace...

Poverty has plagued many rural farming household in Nigeria. Despite several approaches adopted by Government to ameliorate poverty among its citizenry, the number of people living in impoverished condition has continued to rise. This study therefore aimed at assessing the poverty alleviation strategies used among farming household in Ondo State, Nigeria. A validated interview schedule and ques...

This study was conducted to investigate the scenario of buffalo production and reproduction under different farming systems at Subarno Char, in the coastal area of Bangladesh. A total of 14 farms were randomly selected and studied for various traits live weight (LW); daily milk yield (DMY); lactation length (LL); lactation production (LP); calving interval (CI); gestation length (GL); post part...

The standard approach to computing an optimal mixed strategy to commit to is based on solving a set of linear programs, one for each of the follower’s pure strategies. We show that these linear programs can be naturally merged into a single linear program; that this linear program can be interpreted as a formulation for the optimal correlated strategy to commit to, giving an easy proof of a res...

The killing of 26 students and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut last year was committed by a young man, Adam Lanza, who took his own life before police could apprehend him. Investigative news reports and articles have stated that Lanza had received a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome with sensory integration disorder. Even before significant investigation into Lanza’s past was conducted, however...

Commitment to Self-Rewards Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of self-denial of the reward after low performance is credible. We explain how ...