This study explores buyers’ search and purchase behavior in an information-overloaded retail Electronic Marketplace (EMP). Two instrumental variables, i.e. number of visitors and number of sales for an item, are used to represent buyers’ search and purchase behavior. Price and reputation, two of the most frequently researched independent variables in EMP studies, are considered. The relationshi...

This paper discusses the descriptional complexity of generalized forbidding grammars in context of degrees, numbers of nonterminals and conditional productions, and a new descriptional complexity measure—an index—of generalized forbidding grammars.

In recent years, several systems have been proposed that learn the rules of a simple card or board game solely from visual demonstration. These systems were constructed for specific games and rely on substantial background knowledge. We introduce a general system for learning board game rules from videos and demonstrate it on several well-known games. The presented algorithm requires only a few...

Current descriptive analytical cross-sectional study carried out on infants born from diabetic mothers. In this study, infants were divided according to maternal diabetes and birth weight. Then infants underwent echocardiography. After recording information, data were categorized and after performing echo within a month maximum after birth and determined the result thus obtained data were analy...

Competency-Based Learning implementation has become a necessity at the Northern Border University (NBU), kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). However, there are still lot challenges that need to be faced. In an attempt overcome some these challenges, this study conducted identify awareness level competency-based learning among EFL faculty and assess extent which teaching practices, as well course des...

â  pathology of theses in the department of arabic language and literature in university of isfahan in its half a century activities â  (a descriptive – analytical study) â â â  somayeh hasan alian * â  sayyedmohammadreza ibnorrasool ** â  â  considering the importance of understanding the history of researches in every field and the necessity of the pathology of these researches to enhance k...

background considering the effect of human right observance on patients’ satisfaction from the treatment process, in iran the patient rights charter (prc) was developed by the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in 2001 and enforced to all hospitals across the country. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate patients’ awareness of their rights based on prc in two tertiary ...