Preface Form ore than a decade, the International Federationf or Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group8 .5 (Information Systems in Public Administration), or short, IFIP WG 8.5, has organized the EGOV (international conferenceso n Electronic GOVernment) series of conferences, whichm eanwhile has solidly established itself as a core conference in the research domain of e-government and e-g...

perceived risk is an intervening psychosocial construct in marketing and connected to potentially negative outcomes. when studying perceived risk in consumer behavior as purposeful behavior, there is no doubt that the desired outcome of a purchase decision is need satisfaction so that positive outcomes are hoped for and expected. if negative consequences are experienced in buying situations, th...

This work derives and simulates two choice models applying the weighted utility theory, a generalization of the expected utility theory. It shows one set of assumptions, which justify the practice of including the mean and the variance of a risky alternative into a linear utility function of the choice model. A Monte Carlo simulation provides empirical evidence on the robustness of the models.

1 Persuasion mechanisms In this paper we study a particular game where Sender chooses a signal π whose realization is observed by Receiver who then takes her action. In Subsection 2.3 we made an observation that Sender's gain from persuasion is weakly greater in this game than in any other communication game. In this section of the Online Appendix we provide a formal statement and proof of this...

it has been suggested that two distinct species exist within what was originally known as entamoeba histolytica and e. dispar. these are entamoeba dispar for the nonpathogenic and e. histolytica for the pathogenic fonn. differentiation of these two organisms is of great clinical importance since they are morphologically indistinguishable and both fonns can infect the human intestinal cavity. a ...

background: reviewing the literature reveals that pentoxifylline (ptx) plus tocopherol (vitamin e) are used mainly to promote sperm quality. however trials focusing on the effects of these drugs in female partner are limited. combination of pentoxifylline and vitamin e appeared to improve the pregnancy rate in patients with a thin endometrium by increasing the endometrial thickness and improvin...

Objective(s): 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) one of the methamphetamine derivatives that affect the reproductive system, has not been well understood. Many young people are consumers of drugs such as MDMA that can affect their reproductive capability. Apoptosis is the main mechanism for male infertility. Pentoxifylline (PTX) increases cAMP intracellularly and reduces tumor necrosis f...

background: to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic usage in children aged <5 years with acute respiratory tract illness (arti) in iran. materials and methods: data were collected from a national health survey conducted in 2010 (iran’s multiple indicator demographic and health survey). participants of this cross-sectional study were selected by multistage stratifi ed cluster-random sampling...

Transfusion of red blood cells (RBC) and other blood products in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. We retrospectively analyzed data of patients who underwent an isolated coronary bypass graft operation between January 1998 and December 2007. Mean follow-up was 1696+/-1026 days, with exclusion of 122 patients lost to ...

Background: Promoting ethics is one of the goals of education, but the free flow of communication and divulging unethical behaviors in e-learning make the urgent need to clarify ethical values. Therefore, the aim of this study was to prepare ethical codes to develop and deliver e-contents.    Methods: A draft of e-content ethical codes was prepared based on the literature review. Then, it was ...