aim: considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children...

A growing number of countries worldwide are recognising a common need to build systemic capacity for safeguarding and improving quality of health care. Each country has a unique set of priorities and dynamics driving the speed and the substance of the quality agenda, constrained by the reality of the availability and distribution of resources. While acknowledging the considerable variation in c...

We have generated UHE cosmic ray showers using the CORSIKA program and the QGSJet hadronic interaction code, and have simulated the response of the HiRes detector to the showers. We included in the simulation the triggering and DAQ characteristics of the detector and the background sky noise. We processed these Monte Carlo events with the same analysis program run on HiRes data. To efficiently ...

Service quality has attracted major attention from practitioners and academic researchers over recent decades, due to its significant role in business performance and the maintenance of customer loyalty. Nevertheless, very few studies have linked consumers’ cultural orientations to service quality dimensions, especially in a non-Western context. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the liter...

A number of separate studies have concluded that governmental organizations could greatly improve their efficiency as well as their quality of service by embracing state of the art IT. However, in reality few of the potential benefits are actually leveraged. Even those organizations that have succeeded in establishing online service delivery often fail in transformational aspects such as servic...

OBJECTIVE Examine relationships between weight-related factors and weight status, body dissatisfaction, chronic health conditions, and quality of life across sexual orientation and gender. METHODS Two- and four-year college students participated in the College Student Health Survey (n = 28,703; 2009-2013). Risk differences were calculated to estimate relationships between behavioral profiles ...

With the availability of high-end integrated GPS/inertial systems the direct georeferencing of airborne imaging sensors becomes feasible even for highest accuracy demands. Such integrated systems provide the only way for an efficient orientation of the upcoming airborne digital line scanning sensors. Nevertheless, the use of GPS/inertial systems in combination with classical analogue aerial cam...