The ability to produce peak performance plays a decisive role in the success of athletes in competitive contest situations. Levels of appetitive competition motivation (ACM), i.e., the desire to defeat an opponent independent of secondary reinforcing factors, were assessed in professional female football/soccer players in the premier and regional leagues, using club level as the measurement of ...

I am very pleased to attend the International Conference on “Public Policy for Credit Reporting System: Strengthening Dialogue and Cooperation between the Government and the Private Sector”. Credit reporting system is essential to the modern financial system and plays a significant role in financial and economic development. In the recent 20 years, credit reporting system has received increased...

Firms that rely on functioning mission-critical equipment for their businesses cannot a¤ord signi…cant operational downtime due to system disruptions. To minimize the impact of disruptions, a proper incentive mechanism has to be in place so that the suppliers provide prompt restoration and recovery services to the customer. A widely adopted incentive mechanism is performance-based contracting (...

Integration of different theories and expansion of research areas are the main trends in the research domain of IS adoption. Classical TAM structure has been largely expended by newly added variables. Prior studies [1] have analyzed relationships among variables in TAM and found the stability of classical structure, but what about relationships between new variables and classical structure? We ...

This paper aims at introducing an extension of M-nets, a fully compositional class of high-level Petri nets, and of its low-level counter part, Petri Boxes Calculus (PBC). We introduce a new operator with nice algebraic properties which allows to express asynchronous communications in a simple and flexible way. With this extension, asynchronous communications become at least as simple to expres...

the aim of the present study was to compare and analyze football referees' status in iran and england. this study used factors and variables which affected this issue (assessor scales). method of this research was descriptive and library-based. results showed that iran referee structure was not in accordance with england and more development and variety was observed in england referee stru...

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