background :effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors wh...

In the context of a ECA-human interaction, we propose to create a BDI-like reasoning engine based on the agent’s beliefs. This reasoning engine first aims to trigger the agent’s emotions from its goals, beliefs, ideals and the notion of responsibility. Then this engine selects the agent’s communicative intention from its mental states and a set of dialogue rules. The integration of “Stimulus Ev...

I have been honoured by your President with a request that I would this evening address you upon the study of meteorology in its relations to that branch of etiological research which gives its designation to this Society. The compliment is one which I am conscious of not deserving in any way, and, while responding to it, I wish in all sincerity to start by disabusing your minds of any expectat...

W investigate whether partners in a brand alliance should be similar or dissimilar in brand image to foster favorable perceptions of brand fit. Using a Bayesian nonlinear structural equation model and evaluations of 1,200 brand alliances, we find that the conceptual coherence in brand personality profiles predicts attitudes towards a brand alliance. More specifically, we find that similarity in...

While there have been some important advances in understanding how consumers evaluate specific aspects of visual product aesthetics, there is a lack of a systematic understanding of the processes that link product design aesthetics to broader consumer perceptions. In this research, we show that consumers’ assessment of visual product aesthetics are linked to perceptions of product personality. ...

This paper deals with the presentation and evocation of emotion in performative face-to-face linguistic communication in Iran. Performance in linguistic communication is shown to involve the speaker's need to convey an impression of his or her own inner states. Since a€ectivity is one of the most dicult things to convey in face-to-face interaction, it is posited that a person employing success...

A book which tells the story of the children's early life, the horrors endured on the way to Belsen and in the camp, can hardly fail to be moving. This book is intensely so. The patient handling of the children after their arrival in Ireland and the gradual building of confidence is not the least moving section. This may be due to a certain lack of "expertise" in the handling of the early part ...

We present a logical analysis of trust that integrates in the definition of trust: the truster’s goal and the truster’s belief that the trustee has the right properties (powers, abilities, dispositions) to ensure that the goal will be achieved. The second part of the paper is focused on the specific domain of trust in information sources and communication systems. We provide an analysis of the ...

Recent works suggest to model the reputation of the agents in order to evaluate the sincerity of an agent. The very first step of this mechanism is the detection of fraud and lie. However, most of the works concerning reputation consider this detection as implicit either because it is obvious in their specific application or because they assume that this detection is already made. In the presen...

ing methods, we still experience frustrating situations for patients and even for doctors. Accordingly studies should be continued. Although the efficacies of the drugs and of the administration methods are the key points, practical points, such as the planned timetable and schedules, could be obstacles to bowel cleansing. In short, frustration still exists in bowel preparation. A tailored appr...