BACKGROUND CONSORT guidelines call for precise reporting of behavior change interventions: we need rigorous methods of characterizing active content of interventions with precision and specificity. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to develop an extensive, consensually agreed hierarchically structured taxonomy of techniques [behavior change techniques (BCTs)] used in behavior change i...

Introduction: Environmental behavior helps to minimize environmental damage and increase the environmental benefits and advantages. The present study aimed to determine the environmental behaviors of students in Jahrom University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 285 students in the academic year 2016-2017 by the stratified sampling method....

social marketing is defined as applying marketing tools to achievedesired social targets. in other words, social marketing is the usage ofcommercial methods to increase a target group's ability to admit a belief oran action. in this article, the effect of sport clubs reputation and name on animprovement and a change in their fans' behavior was studied. using semmethod, the results dem...

This article outlines the fundamental connections between geodiversity and biodiversity by providing a geoconservation perspective on concept of “conserving nature’s stage” as basis for safeguarding both in face environmental climate change. Conserving stage—the physical environment which species exist—provides means developing more integrated approaches to nature conservation, delivering benef...

We investigate a class of parity-conserving solid-on-solid models that describes the growth of an interface by the deposition and evaporation of dimers. As a key feature of the models, evaporation of dimers takes place only at the edges of terraces, leading to a roughening transition between a smooth and a rough phase. We consider several variants of growth models in order to identify universal...

Conserving approximations are applied to the attractive Holstein and Hub-bard models (on an innnite-dimensional hypercubic lattice). All eeects of nonconstant density of states and vertex corrections are taken into account in the weak-coupling regime. Innnite summation of certain classes of diagrams turns out to be a quantitatively less accurate approximation than truncation of the conserving a...

We develop a political economy model that might explain the different environmental performance of countries, through educational choices. Individuals decide whether to invest in additional education according to their expectations regarding future environmental quality. They also vote on a tax that will be used exclusively to finance environmental protection. We show that, under the assumption...

Background: Attention to environmental literacy and ethics in agriculture has a decisive role in nature conservation and production resources. If farmers do not have environmental literacy, irreparable damage to the environment is expected. The purpose of this study was to evaluate environmental literacy and its relationship with environmental ethics among farmers in Torbat-e-Heydariyeh. Metho...