BACKGROUND AND AIM: National oral health knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) data among 12-year-old children need nation-wide programs to help promote oral health. In most countries, oral epidemiologic data are collected by self-administered structured questionnaires. The aim of this study was to undertake a systematic review of the existing literature about questionnaires used for analyzin...

DOES SEARCH MATTER? : USING ONLINE CLICK STREAM DATA TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONLINE SEARCH AND PURCHASE BEHAVIOR Neveen F. Awad, Joni L. Jones, Jian Zhang Introduction The ability to track consumer behavior online is considered a prime advantage that online retailing has over brick and mortar retailers. However, firms are still grappling with how to understand their consumers throug...

Nowadays, with extending applications of bi-layer metallic sheets in different industrial sectors, accurate specification of each layer is very prominent to achieve desired properties. In order to predict behavior of sheets under different forming modes and determining rupture limit and necking, the concept of Forming Limit Diagram (FLD) is used. Optimization problem with objective functions an...

Double reading of chest x-rays is often used to ensure that fewer abnormalities are missed, but very little is known about how the search behavior of others affects observer performance. A series of experiments investigated whether radiographers benefit from knowing where another person looked for pulmonary nodules, and whether the expertise of the model providing the search behavior was a cont...

purpose: the present research aimed to study internet and electronic recourses searching behavior of geography ph.d. students of tehran university. methodology: using a questionnaire survey, demographic features and educational trends of 61 studied students were analyzed. findings: results showed that all of the statistical population used e-mail services, databases and search engines. most of ...

The paper aims to explore, theoretically and empirically, the creation of orgnizational knowledge in the virtual context, in which geographically dispersed individuals communicate through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The paper brings together the writings of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Schön and Goffman to argue that knowledge creation involves the continuous effort of individuals ...

Post-decision implementation process involves the execution of organizational process, people with different skills and knowledge, which can contribute in future decisions and best-practices. The aim of this paper is to analyze the creation of group storytelling as a mechanism to represent tacit knowledge in the scope of post-decision implementation process. The concepts of post-decision and gr...

Users’ query and click behavior information has been widely used in relevance feedback techniques to improve search engine performance. However, there is a special kind of user behavior that submitting a query but not clicking any result returned by search engines. Queries ending with non-click make up a large fraction of user search activities, but few studies on them have been done in user be...

residential location choice modeling is one of the areas in transportation planning that attempts to examine households location search behavior incorporating their trade-offs between housing quality, prices or rents, distance to work and other key factors. this brings up the need to come up with methods to logically allocate credible choice alternatives for individuals.this article attempts to...