This paper investigates the antecedents of member retention for virtual communities. This research theorizes the motivating mechanism from both perspectives of the information seekers and providers. Four antecedents communication breadth, depth, responsiveness, and cross-posting have a statistically significant influence on member retention. Furthermore, we have found that communication breadth...

purpose: this article presents the results of study aimed at devising comprehensive, standard and objective criteria for measuring faculty members' workload. material & method: the indicators for measuring faculty members' workload were collected through a comprehensive review of the literature, a survey of the available documents and methods for measuring workload in the country, and faculty m...

the goal of this study was to assess attitude towards plagiarism in faculty members of medical school at tehran university of medical sciences. one hundred and twenty medical faculty members of tehran university of medical sciences were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. they were asked to answer to valid and reliable persian version of attitude towards plagiarism questionnaire. attitude t...

background: medical education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. in this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) were evaluated for the first time in this country. methods: data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...