BACKGROUND Material exchange for sex (transactional sex) may be important to sexual relationships and health in certain cultures, yet the motivations for transactional sex, its scale and consequences are still little understood. The aim of this paper is to examine young women's motivations to exchange sex for gifts or money, the way in which they negotiate transactional sex throughout their rel...

Purpose Given the acute competition between music-streaming platforms (MSPs), purpose of this study is to identify relational motivators brand loyalty towards MSP in terms user-brand involvement, trust, engagement, recommendation and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach Cross-sectional quantitative data, gathered from a total 340 eligible respondents via an online questionnaire survey, were emp...

This study focused on the integration of a Web shell for supporting emergent-collaboration activities in six graduate courses (115 students) in the Tel-Aviv University School of Education. Emergent-collaboration is the process by which group configurations and transactional patterns evolve among participants during the course of learning. The research questions addressed in the study were relat...

Modern enterprise applications are currently undergoing a complete paradigm shift away from traditional transactional processing to combined analytical and transactional processing. This challenge of combining two opposing query types in a single database management system results in additional requirements for transaction management as well. In this paper, we discuss our approach to achieve hi...

Background & Aims of the Study: Family functioning is among the most important factors ensuring the mental health of family members. Disorder or disturbance in family functioning would cause many psychological problems for family members. Current study intended to examine the effectiveness of transactional analysis group counseling on the improvement of couple's family functioning. Materials & ...

We set the basis for a theory of testing for distributed transactions in service oriented systems where each service definition is decorated with a transactional attribute (inspired by the Java Transaction API). Transaction attributes discipline how services are executed with respect to the transactional scope of the invoking party. We define a language of observers and show that, in general, t...

INTRODUCTION Young women aged 15 to 24 years in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. A growing number of studies have suggested that the practice of transactional sex may in part explain women's heightened risk, but evidence on the association between transactional sex and HIV has not yet been synthesized. We set out to systematically review studies that assess ...