background: infertility as a crisis can both lead to negative reactions and stress in infertile couples and bring about positive reactions and growth, to which henceforth posttraumatic growth is referred. this study was conducted to model the relation between martial adjustment and posttraumatic growth through the mediation of religious coping strategies in infertile couples. methods: this corr...

this paper is a survey of recent contributions to and developments in the relationship between efficiency and productivity via the production function. the objective is to provide a brief discussion on data and on the methods of measuring efficiency and productivity. first, we introduce the reader to the measurement of partial and total factor productivity in the context of static and firm - sp...

Background: The recent progress and achievements in the advanced, accurate, and rigorously evaluated algorithms has revolutionized different aspects of the predictive microbiology including bacterial growth.Objectives: In this study, attempts were made to develop a more accurate hybrid algorithm for predicting the bacterial growth curve which can also be ...

Modeling of longitudinal data from agricultural experiments using growth curves helps understand conditions conducive or unconducive to crop growth. Recent advances in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) now allow geocoding of agricultural data that help understand spatial patterns. A particularly common problem is capturing spatial variation in growth patterns over the entire experimental d...

Social networking sites (SNSs), combined with the rapid growth trajectory of mobile devices, and widespread deployment of mobile data services, have evolved as a primary platform for daily social interaction. While the majority of users enjoy frequent interactions with their friends and family members, some users suffer from incessant urges to check up on the lives of others on their social net...

This chapter gives an overview of recent advances in latent variable analysis. Emphasis is placed on the strength of modeling obtained by using a flexible combination of continuous and categorical latent variables. To focus the discussion and make it manageable in scope, analysis of longitudinal data using growth models will be considered. Continuous latent variables are common in growth modeli...

Using a new, parameter-free first principles strategy for modeling sublimation growth, we show that while Al and N2 dominate gas concentrations in AlN sublimation growth chambers under typical growth conditions, N2 is undersaturated with respect to the crystal and therefore cannot be a growth precursor. Instead, our calculations predict that the nitrogen-containing precursors are Al(n)N (n=2,3,...

While some service providers of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) lose significant numbers of players over time, others maintain a strong growth trajectory. Drawing from the Uses and Gratifications Theory and the Need to Belong theory, we believe that an individual’s Perceived Belonging (i.e., the degree to which a person feels connected to and accepted by others) positi...

262 1 Longitudinal studies provide important sources of information when investigating how differences in various national and regional school policies, practices and compositional characteristics relate to differences in student achievement over a period of time. Therefore, it is not surprising that the use of growth modeling techniques in educational fields has rapidly increased. Recent years...