The study of information privacy in e-commerce is still in its infancy. Current studies have mainly focused on consumers’ general concern for privacy. They have largely ignored situational factors (such as emotions, website design, etc) and the potential influence of situational factors in shaping Internet users’ perception about the level of privacy (or privacy belief) ensured by online vendor...

Test washback is held to be complex and multifaceted in that a host of cultural, social, individual, test, and institutional factors are involved in shaping it. Thus far, the majority of washback studies have had as their focus the role of teachers in test washback or washback to teachers. How educational environments or institutions might function in isolation or in interaction with other fact...

the present article employs sociological, socio-psychological and anthropological theories design a theoretical framework and model with due regard to theoretical viewpoints and experimental resources and proposes hypotheses on the basis of them. the integrative research method includes a survey and historical study. the population includes 404 teachers related to 6 tribal groups: curd, fars, t...

Tolerance analysis consists of determining upper bounds on the variations in a product’s part dimensions such that after the parts are assembled the accumulated effect of these variations will not affect the product quality. In the past, tolerance analysis focused on the design stage in a mass production environment where the distribution of parts and components was necessarily known in advance...