the purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship of cultural context, thinking styles and achievement motivation with academic achievement among behavioral sciences students from university of tehran. three hundred and three students (96 boys, 207 girls), selected through stratified sampling method, answered a questionnaire, which consisted individualism / collectivism & power d...

We introduce a method for content-based advertisement selection for personal blog pages, based on combining multiple representations of the blog. The core idea behind the method is that personal blogs represent individuals, whose interests can be modeled by the language used in the blog itself combined with the language used in related sources of information, such as comments posted to a blog p...

Purpose Occupational stress is damaging to employee well-being, causes serious illnesses and costs organizations billions of dollars every year. Mutual gains model human resource management (HRM) recommends that HRM practices should improve both well-being performance. Offshore business processing (BPO) are renowned have intense wok environment. The study aimed deploy mutual models in BPO deter...

Most web sites provide display advertising and contextual advertising services simultaneously, which are the main ad formats in Internet. With multimedia format, the pricing of display ads is generally based on the occurrence of ad impressions. However, targeting their customers more accurately, contextual ads are performance based advertisements and are charged only if one visitor clicks a cli...

In this paper we present the concept of inferred contextual user profiles (CUPs) which extends the traditional user profile definition by describing the user in a given situation, or context. The approach is evaluated in the scope of movie recommendation. In our evaluation, we infer two CUPs for each user, and use only one of the profiles, instead of the full user profile for recommending movie...