Background: Using assisted reproductive donation procedures increase hope in infertile couples. However large part of the world population do not recognize these procedures. One of the important steps in recognition of infertile couples’ problem, whose only therapeutic option is using assisted reproductive donation procedures, is investigating their Socio-cultural Beliefs about these procedures...

Users' evaluations are a key measure of the performance of information systems. This paper examines some issues in correct measures of IS (Information System) performance through the users' evaluations , especially, in the international cross-cultural perspective view. The Chinese cultural environment, as an example, has been given a close look to examine the cross-cultural impacts on the measu...

muslims nowadays need to be present on the international stage. this involves living together with non-muslims, especially the people of the book. this sort of life and interaction has different political, cultural, economic, and military aspects. the belief that non-muslims are impure (najes) causes hardship to the muslims; and is incompatible with human dignity, which is acknowledged by the q...

in less developed or developing countries like iran, the developing plans, due to the governance of non-scientific approaches in the feasibility study phase, provoke destroying environment, nonsustainably development and ruining the land use planning of districts. countless experiences show that usually the solutions to solve the problems do not function properly as these unpleased consequences...

Traditional religious knowledge widely incorporates traditional religious expressions and other forms of traditional knowledge, such as ecological knowledge, medicinal knowledge, elements of languages, and so on. Traditional religious knowledge is a subset of cultural heritage, of which the inheritance and spread have attracted considerable attention from the global society. A series of interna...

This study aimed to explore the role of cultural fit for the adaptation of international students in Japan. The concept of cultural fit (Ward & Chang, 1997) suggests that resembling the host culture in certain characteristics is advantageous for sojourners’ cross-cultural adaptation. It was assumed that secondary-primary control orientation is one such characteristic of importance for adaptatio...