OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to examine the joint effect of self-efficacy, action planning, and received social support on fruit and vegetable intake. DESIGN The study used a longitudinal design with 3 waves of data collection. SETTING Major university campus in Beijing, China. PARTICIPANTS Young adults (n = 286). VARIABLES MEASURED Age, gender, body mass index, dietary se...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

Social systems are changing so rapidly that it is important for humans to make decisions considering uncertainty. A scenario is information about the series of events/actions, which supports decision makers to take actions and reduce risks. We propose Action Planning for refining simple ideas into practical scenarios (strategic scenarios). Frameworks and items on Action Planning Sheets provide ...

To what extent can social structure result from evolutionary processes, as opposed to deliberately organised by a collection of intelligent individuals? That is, could social organisations (which are usefully identifiable as an entity in their own right) result from a mechanism which only relies on the processes of random variation and selective reproduction. Or, on the other hand, is it necess...

abstract background: in malaysia, contraceptive prevalence rate (cpr) during past three decades has been steady, with only 34% of women practicing modern contraception. the aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with modern contraceptive practices with a focus on spousal communication and perceived social support among married women working in the university. materials and me...

traditional social science often fails when deployed to explain complex human action. in each specific social field of human endeavour, including planning, experienced actors draw on a range of conscious and unconscious performative knowledges to act with effect: the experts simply ‘know’ what to do. some thinkers, suggests that to understand these complex human dispositions framing practice re...

This paper formulates a generic framework for the social path planning problem. Previous works deal with very specific cases of socially-aware motion planning. Instead, here we propose a mathematical formulation that can be considered the preliminary steps towards a general theoretical setting, incorporating previous work as sub-cases. Social path planning is analyzed into 6 different subproble...

in recent decades, persian language dialects are also changing along with the language itself. so, recording the social characteristics of these dialects is of great importance. the results of these studies can be used in social and educational policies, language planning and comparative studies of dialectology. the writers of this article study the social characteristics of family and gender e...

We describe a Multiagent Planning approach, named Social Continual Planning, that tackles open scenarios, where agents can join and leave the system dynamically. The planning task is not defined from a global point of view, setting a global objective, but we allow each agent to pursue its own subset of goals. We take a social perspective where, although each agent has its own planning task and ...

We describe a Multiagent Planning approach, named Social Continual Planning, that tackles open scenarios, where agents can join and leave the system dynamically. The planning task is not defined from a global point of view, setting a global objective, but we allow each agent to pursue its own subset of goals. We take a social perspective where, although each agent has its own planning task and ...