the purpose of this article is to investigate the relationships among employees' trust in organization, reciprocity norm in organization and employees' organizational identification. furthermore, authors seek to analyze the moderating effect of organizational commitment components on these relationships. this research was performed using correlation-descriptive method. the statistical populatio...

Unilateral friendships provide a powerful mechanism to study friendship formation, because these friendships contain interest in friendship, but have not yet become full, reciprocated friendship. This longitudinal study investigated whether the conversations of unilateral dyads identified in the fall were predictive of that dyad’s relationship status in the winter. I hypothesized that the conve...

A critical element of word of mouth (WOM) marketing (aka buzz marketing) is to identify central actors with high degree in the social network to serve as seeds. However, seed identification typically requires data on the full network structure, which is often unavailable. We examine WOM seeding strategies motivated by the friendship paradox to get higher degree nodes without knowing network str...

Introduction The main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in Golestan province of IRAN. Materials and Methods Forty-four X-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. Eight parameters including kVp accuracy, kVp reproducibility, mA-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

Correspondence: P. Stopka, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, U.K. (email: [email protected]). L. Barrett is at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K. Hemelrijk et al. (1999), using data from a captive chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, colony, state that there is no evidence to suggest that individuals trade ‘social services’...

this research is an effort in deep description of everyday life of students and their experience of happiness. the main question of this research is “how students will experience happiness in their everyday life.” .in order to answer this question we started to have a field research in two of the girls high schools in area six of tehran. we have used participant observation and semi_structured ...

Friendships are essential for adolescent social development. However, they may be pursued for varying motives, which, in turn, may predict similarity in friendships via social selection or social influence processes, and likely help to explain friendship quality. We examined the effect of early adolescents' (N = 374, 12-14 years) intrinsic and extrinsic friendship motivation on friendship selec...