this study aims to examine how the poetry of mamduh udvan was affected by quranic inspirations and show how the high language and noble meanings of the quran enhanced the modern poetry to artistic levels. this search for inspiration in udvan’s poetry has different manifestations examples of which are provided at two levels in this article: 1) lexical levels in which the poet resort to quranic l...

While walking on the streets, pedestrians can aware attractions like shopping windows. Some of them might shift their attention towards the attractions, namely switching behavior. As a first step, this study investigates collective effects of the switching behavior for an attraction by means of numerical simulations. Such switching behavior leads some pedestrians head for the attraction, or eve...

Insights from appraisal theories of emotion are used to integrate elements of theories on collective action. Three experiments with disadvantaged groups systematically manipulated procedural fairness (Study 1), emotional social support (Study 2), and instrumental social support (Study 3) to examine their effects on collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy. Resul...

Estimation of Semiparametric Models in the Presence of Endogeneity and Sample Selection Siddhartha Chib, Edward Greenberg and Ivan Jeliazkov Siddhartha Chib is Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 . Edward Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Loui...

We analyzed the efficiency of coherent population trapping (CPT) in a superposition of the ground states of three-level atoms under the influence of the decoherence process induced by a broadband thermal field. We showed that in a single atom there is no perfect CPT when the atomic transitions are affected by the thermal field. The perfect CPT may occur when only one of the two atomic transitio...

Despite the rising prevalence of online collective behaviors in Mainland China, there is a dearth of research on their categorization and underlying motivations. To fill this gap, we applied grounded theory to identify the major categories of online collective behaviors in China, and conducted a survey study to understand their underlying motivations. Results show Chinese online collective beha...

The authors used experience-sampling methodology to investigate the dynamic relationships among insomnia, emotions, and job satisfaction. Over a period of 3 weeks, 45 employees completed surveys each workday, producing a total of 550 observations. Results revealed that, within individuals, insomnia was associated with increased feelings of hostility and fatigue and decreased feelings of joviali...

The benefice of a collective decisions process mainly rests upon the possibility for the participants to confront their respective points of views. To this end, they must have cognitive and technical tools that ease the sharing of the reasons that motivate their own preferences, while accounting for information and feelings they should keep for their own. The paper presents the basis of such a ...