Despite the differences between virtual and collocated teams, empirical studies have identified a number of challenges that virtual teams experience. We argue, in this work-in-progress study, that habits constitute a good explanatory factor for understanding behaviour in the virtual team environment. In this study, we analyse ‘offline’ habits in the cases of student-based global virtual teams a...

Background: Students' educational success depends on various factors, one of the most important factor is applying appropriate study methods To achieve this, a mobile educational application called: "Appropriate study and learning practices for students" was designed by the researchers to investigate the effect of using educational mobile application on study habits for students' educational su...

The present study documents family media habits in six areas: electronic and print Media Use, parental Monitoring of children’s media, parental Consistency regarding rules for children’s media use, parents’ reports of observable Media Effects on their children, parents’ Knowledge about media and media effects, and how much children participate in Alternative Activities to electronic media. A ra...

background : one of the important requirements for cultural, social and even economic development is having a book-loving nation. in order to achieve this, there is a need for purposeful and continuous programming. the purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between students' study habits, happiness and depression in isfahan university of medical science. methods : this resea...

in order to assess the relationship between obesity with food habit and body image, this case control study was conducted among 85 urban primary school children male and female aged 10-12 years old, attending anuban school in nakhon pathom province, in thailand. two different questionnaires were used for data collection for caregivers and students. the standard used for definition of overweight...

We present a Work-habit Intervention Model (WhIM) to explain and predict how change work-habits be more effective. Habit has primarily been researched within the health domain. The WhIM contributes unique theoretical perspective by: (i) suggesting that work-habit requires two-stage process of exposure regular rationalized plans stated intention use these plans; and, (ii) defining effective in t...

background. this study aimed to evaluate whether the parents’ knowledge about the adverse effects of oral habits and dentoskeletal discrepancies would improve by an educational pamphlet. methods. a parallel-group randomized clinical trial was conducted on parents in kindergartens of shiraz, iran, 2013. the parents completed a designed questionnaire to determine the pre-intervention score. the s...