This study aims to empirically test the impact of the Motivation-Ability-Opportunity(MAO) model on knowledge work. We propose that knowledge work is a function of employees’ motivation, ability and opportunity. In this regard, the aim is to provide empirical support to explain the effects of motivation, ability and opportunity on knowledge-work, which we defined as a knowledge-centered behavior...

Applying weighted network measures to distance matrices Many approaches to the analysis of weighted networks are not designed for fully connected weighted networks. However, as any distance matrix between objects is a fully connected weighted network, such networks are extremely common. In earlier work we derived an approach for the analysis of weighted networks which also works on fully connec...

Meso-mechanical analysis of deformation characteristics for dynamically triggered slip in a granular medium M. Griffa a , B. Ferdowsi a , E.G. Daub b c , R.A. Guyer b d , P.A. Johnson b , C. Marone e f & J. Carmeliet a g a Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), ETH Domain – Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland b Solid Earth Geophysics Gro...

In this paper, factors affecting the development and effectiveness of ICT in Iran’s educational system, based on survey results from a group of computer engineering colleagues are discussed. Participants in the study were 22 students studying in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, selected through a voluntary basis from a pool of students who had taken at least one web-based class at the university...

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The aim of this study was to identify the deficiency of uridine monophosphate synthase (DUMPS) and the complex vertebral malformation (CVM) in Iranian Holstein bulls. A total of 144 blood samples were prepared of Holstein bulls in Abbas Abad Animal Breeding Center and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad's Dairy Farm in Khorasan state of Iran. Genomic PCR-RFLP protocol was performed to amplify the po...