as a contemporary fiction writer, bizhan najdi is lessappreciated despite the fact that his short stories are of significant depthand deserve close examination. through the poetic language, “a plant inquarantine” creates a situation which provides a fertile ground to inspect therelation between past and present. a deep analysis of this relationship is themain focus of this paper. in this study,...

malaria remains a complex problem during the pregnancy, which threatens > 35 millions pregnant women every year. malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy results in accumulation of infected rbcs in the intervillous spaces causing severe alterations leading to the reduced materno-foetal exchanges. in this article we have revisited the current evidences of clinical implications and overall burden of mal...

This study assesses physicians’ intention to engage with electronic medical records (EMR) in the context of pre-EMR implementation in developing countries. We developed a model and corresponding hypotheses grounded in the sociocognitive theory and the decomposed theory of planned behavior. A survey of physicians in the Middle-East was conducted and the results empirically analyzed via PLS. We f...

ICT tools have been developed to facilitate web-based learning through and learning about argumentation. In this paper we will present an example of a learning activity mediated by Digalo-software for knowledge sharing through visually supported discussiondeveloped in a university setting. Our aim is to examine, in particular, socio-cognitive construction of knowledge and argumentation by stude...

The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view, just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the basic beliefs) on which the final decision to trust or not is taken. In this paper we show a first implementation and advance of the socio-cognitive model of trust developed in [1, 2] using the so-called Fuzzy Cogn...

It is well-established that the effects of poverty are devastating for children in school. More generally, scholars have documented that low "socio-economic status" (SES), whether measured by family income, parent education, or parent occupation, is usually the most powerful predictor of achievement and test score performance, sometimes swamping all other factors (White, 1982). This advantage t...

A series of recent academic as well as practitioner oriented ideas and movements have sought to view knowledge as the key strategic resource that leads to sustained competitive advantage. All these movements, however, implicitly assume that firms differ in the ways they understand, create, access, and use knowledge as a resource. In this paper, I present a two stage mixed-methods study explore ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether face age and social status information associated with faces have different effects on gaze following behaviour as an index of joint attention. Participants were instructed to perform goaldirected saccades towards a peripheral stationary target, while a task-irrelevant face with averted gaze was presented. Faces of three different age grou...

The relation between individual’s personality and environmental context is a key issue in psychology, recently also in character simulations. This paper contributes to both domains by proposing a socio-cognitive, contextual personality model a new voice in a century old problem of personality, but also an approach to simulating groups of more humanlike agents. After analyzing the influence of p...

Transitivity in trust is very often considered as a quite simple property, trivially inferable from the classical transitivity defined in mathematics, logic, or grammar. In fact the complexity of the trust notion suggests evaluating the relationships with the transitivity in a more adequate way. In this paper, starting from a socio-cognitive model of trust, we analyze the different aspects and ...