Background: Adolescence is a phase that must be passed through physical, mental, emotional and social changes. In this phase, adolescents begin to have developmental task, namely self-identity. Adolescents with good self-identity will achieve tasks well, while low may experience identity confusion which results in deviant behaviors. Self-identity influenced by several factors, one of the celebr...

This article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of Iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of Iran. Moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standar...

Acknowledgments are vital since students/researchers can demonstrate their genuine appreciation through them and more importantly shape their (local/global) academic identity. In line with this significance, the present study examined the move patterns of 503 Persian dissertation acknowledgements from two major universities in Iran, from 1981 to 2014 and from sixteen various disciplines includi...

This paper takes a comprehensive look at hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) schemes with constant-size ciphertexts which provide desirable provable guarantees and can be implemented using the most efficient bilinear pairings, namely, Type-3 pairings. Our work results in six new HIBE schemes. The first construction, DPVS-HIBE , is obtained by extending the IBE scheme of Chen et.al. Th...

Recent research has found that perceiving racial discrimination toward one’s own group results in the expression of more positive attitudes toward members of other racial minority groups; however, perceiving sexism results in the expression of more negative attitudes toward other stigmatized groups, namely, racial minorities. One possibility for this seeming discrepancy is that perceived group ...

How much of our self is defined by our work? Fundamental changes in the social organization of work are destabilizing the relationship between work and the self. As a result, parts of the self traditionally considered outside the domain of work—that is, nonwork identities—are increasingly affected by organizations and occupations. Based on an interdisciplinary review of literature on identity a...