the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between five personality traits and the methods to confront conflicts in physical education teachers (yazd city). the research used a descriptive and correlational method. the statistical population consisted of all physical education teachers in districts one and two in yazd city (n=125). the statistical sample was similar to the statisti...

In today’s interactive marketplace,microblog has become a powerful social marketing and advertising platform. An important type of information in microblog is consumer generated and forwarded advertising. In our study, we explore advertising effects of different social appeals through microblog. We find that oriented appeals (i.e., other-oriented and self-oriented appeals) are more effective th...

a culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ism. this study aims to ...

Sign change problem (SCP) in multivariate Quantitative Structure-Activity/Property Relationships (QSAR/QSPR) is the inconsistency in the direction of association between molecular descriptors and the dependent variable. Sign change is observed when the signs of the elements of the reference vector (correlation vector for the data set obtained from variable selection) are compared to the signs o...

Data modeling patterns is an emerging field of research in the data modeling area. Its aims are to create a body of knowledge to help understand data modeling problems better and to create better data models. Current data modeling patterns are generally discussed at the instance level (only applicable in a specific domain, e.g. a business situation) and with an Entity-Relationship Modeling (ERM...

This paper briefly outlines the main characteristics of an ongoing research aimed at developing a support library for implementing systems based on autonomous agents. The library is built upon active objects, whose concurrent behavior is disciplined −for each controlled object− by a corresponding controller, according to the dictate of aspect-oriented programming. So far, we implemented a preli...