Staff Engagement is an individual's interest and enthusiasm to accomplish the specified duties, all together with his sustained profession with organizations. Accordingly, the current research aimed to delve into the relationship between the characteristical traits and Staff Engag ement among nurses employed in Kermanshah-based hospitals in 2015. In this descriptive-correlational study, 322 nur...

Abstract: The psychomotor skills required in dental laboratory technology and dentistry are similar. Dental educators have recognized the problems in selecting from among dental school applicants those with potential psychomotor skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of admissions data and measurements of psychological constructs of dental technology students with th...

We develop an individual behavioural model in the context of information security in organizational settings. This model integrates the top management championship theory and the theory of planned behaviour in conjunction with organizational culture and personality traits. Using structural equation modelling techniques and survey data, we test hypotheses on how top management beliefs and partic...

this essay will survey different views on the value and the status of woman in judaism and christianity and era of ignorance in jazirat al arab and then will turn to this subject according to the holy quran. in so doing, some of the most important doubts and suspicions concerning the high status of woman in holy quran have been surveyed by using the theories of some of islamic scholars and inte...

This study integrated the computers as social actors (CASA) framework with objectification theory to predict that traits, such as sexism, influence perceptions of virtual representations as well as attributions of the source and message. Participants (N= 397) received a message about dating or job interviews presented by a virtual woman in either context-appropriate or context-inappropriate dre...

—Virtual Human Character movement is very essential on virtual reality game in order to perform natural or emotional movement. Basically, numerous researchers focusing on movements from input such as: joystick, mouse, and keyboard. The other movement's concepts come from artificial intelligence as a part of improving interactivity. This paper intends to offer different method of controlling the...

Telling stories is an important aspect virtual agents designed to interact with people socially over time. We describe an experiment designed to investigate the impact of the identity, presentation form, and perspective of a virtual storyteller on a human user who engages in a story-swapping activity with two virtual characters. For each interaction, the user was given 10 “ice-breaker” question...

This study compared the Spanish (Castilian) and French versions of the 16PF5 and of the NEO-PI-R in Spanish and Swiss samples. The five-factor solution for the 16PF5 only seems clear for the Castilian version, but not for the French version. Indeed, the congruence coefficients for the Tough-Mindedness and the Self-Control dimensions are low. On the other hand, the five-factor solutions are high...