Second generation immigrants in developed economies have contributed to the emergence of new areas immigrant business activity, especially information technology and creative industries; however, an understanding their growth strategies is limited. Compared native entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs are more likely human social capital resources needed start international ventures, potentially global ...

The aim of this study was to investigate economic, cultural, social and emotional problems in marriage of martyrs' children in Dehaghan and Shahreza and effects of absence of father in statistical population. Research method was based on menstruation and collection tool was questionnaire too. Population selected among 492 martyrs' children in Dehaghan and Shahreza. According to Cochran&...

This paper presents a family of probabilistic latent variable models that can be used for analysis of nonnegative data. We show that there are strong ties between nonnegative matrix factorization and this family, and provide some straightforward extensions which can help in dealing with shift invariances, higher-order decompositions and sparsity constraints. We argue through these extensions th...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of injuries among teenagers and to examine the associated risk factors, such as sociodemographic characteristics, risk behaviors, family ties and other factors. METHOD The prevalence of the outcome (injury) was estimated with a 95%confidence interval. In order to verify factors associated with the injury, a bivariate analysis was made with estimated odds r...

In collectivist cultures, families tend to be characterized by respect for parental authority and strong, interdependent ties. Do these aspects of collectivism exert countervailing pressures on mate choices and relationship quality? In the present research, we found that collectivism was associated with greater acceptance of parental influence over mate choice, thereby driving relationship comm...