the relationship between motor skills and other aspects of personality, such as self-concept, social and emotional behavior, proposes the necessity of working on motor skills and activities. investigation of the social abilities seems beneficial for whom with the special needs. the current study investigated the influence of yoga rhythmic movements on social interactions of children with mental...

Social influence is the behavioral change of a person because of the perceived relationship with other people, organizations and society in general. Social influence has been a widely accepted phenomenon in social networks for decades. Many applications have been built based around the implicit notation of social influence between people, such as marketing, advertisement and recommendations. Wi...

What happens to organizations that chase the hottest information technologies? This study examines some of the important organizational impacts of the fashion phenomenon in IT. An IT fashion is a transitory collective belief that an information technology is new, efficient, and at the forefront of practice. Using data collected from published discourse and annual IT budgets of 109 large compani...

In realistic applications, it is often desirable to integrate different ontologies into a single, reconciled ontology. Ideally, one would expect the individual ontologies to be developed as independently as possible, and the final reconciliation to be seamless and free from unexpected results. This allows for the modular design of large ontologies and facilitates knowledge reuse tasks. Few onto...

The results of numerous studies show the effectiveness of helmets in avoiding or reducing the severity of injuries in a motorcycle accident (Hundley et al., 2004; Keng, 2005; La Torre, 2003; León & Hernández, 2004; Liu et al., 2004). Despite the proven effectiveness of helmets in avoiding or reducing the severity of brain injuries and legislation requiring their use by both motorcycles drivers ...

A fundamental question related to innovation diffusion is how the social network structure influences the process. Empirical evidence regarding real-world influence networks is very limited. On the other hand, agent-based modeling literature reports different and at times seemingly contradictory results. In this paper we study innovation diffusion processes for a range of Watts-Strogatz network...

Students' intellectual, social and personal development is highly influenced by peers during the college years. These changes can be understood in terms of social comparison theory, which outlines the consequences for group dynamics of people's need to evaluate their opinions and abilities. Discussion aimed toward opinion consensus and competition aimed toward improving ability levels promote t...

The typical constraint store transmits a limited amount of information because it consists only of variable domains. We propose a richer constraint store in the form of a limited-width multivalued decision diagram (MDD). It reduces to a traditional domain store when the maximum width is one but allows greater pruning of the search tree for larger widths. MDD propagation algorithms can be develo...

Henry Fleming, the central character of Stephen Crane's (1952/1895) Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, eagerly joins the Union army although he knows little about war. Only much later does he realize how ignorant he is about whether he will run when the fighting starts. This uncertainty about himself sets off a disguised but full-scale search for social comparisons until, through the gu...