Relevance has become a major area of research in the ®eld of Information Retrieval, despite the fact that the concept relevance is not well understood. This paper models manifestations of relevance within a system of relevance attributes to show that the attributes function in di€erent dimensions for the di€erent manifestations of relevance. It is shown that motivational relevance, as a manifes...

This study aims to analyze the influence of consumer characteristics (impulse buying tendencies, shopping enjoyment and moods) situational factors (individual situation, website quality, motivational activity by retailers, product attributes) on online impulsive purchases fashion products in past pandemic. The population this were people who live Surakarta Solo Residency with a sample 100 respo...

New digital media forms have broaden new business opportunities. Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a major contender, from these new digital media options. Agricultural and food industries are especially excited and looking forward to employing IPTV as they see it as a viable means in promoting their markets. This study examines whether the effects of media attributes and motiv...

Handling Editor: Kevin Lowe How should leaders construct and communicate theirmessages tomost effectivelymotivate their employees? We offer an integrative framework to address the diverging and complementary nature of two established approaches to employee motivation: Vision communication and goal setting. Specifically, while vision communication involves formulating relatively abstract, farrea...

This master thesis is a part of a project conducted by the Centre of Speech Technology at the Department of Language, Speech and Music at the Royal Institute of Technology. The focus of this master thesis has been on how to make computerized language learning more entertaining and stimulating. Computer games in general can create an addictive and motivational encouraging stimulation for players...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify important motivational factors according to the views of health-care professionals in Greek hospitals and particularly to determine if these might differ in the public and private sectors. METHODS A previously developed -and validated- instrument addressing four work-related motivators (job attributes, remuneration, co-workers and achieveme...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial competence and frustration tolerance are important characteristics of skilled medical professionals. In the present study we explored the usefulness of applying a comprehensive motivational theory (Goal orientations), for this purpose. According to goal orientation theory, learning motivation is defined as the general goals students pursue during learning (either mastery...

growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. the strength of this relationship in...

the effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on l2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, iran. this study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their l2 reading and l2 writing achievement. it also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...

Rating systems not only provide information to users but also motivate the rated agent. This paper solves for the optimal (effort-maximizing) rating system within the standard career concerns framework. It is a mixture two-state rating system. That is, it is the sum of two Markov processes, with one that reflects the belief of the rater and the other the preferences of the rated agent. The rati...