purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the barriers to information seeking behaviors (in the phases of needs identification, information seeking, designing search strategy formula, and using information) of faculty members of islamic azad university of shiraz based on the expansion of dervin’s sense making theory (kari’s theory). methodology: this is an applied study using the survey...

This project explores how the ability to ask informative questions changes during development. We hypothesized an intrinsic link between the ability to update beliefs given evidence and the ability to ask informative questions. To study the developmental trajectory of this behavior, five to ten-year-old children played an iPad game asking them to identify a hidden bug. Learners could either ask...

entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. as regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in gonbad-e-kavous county. ...

Relapse to drug seeking after treatment or a period of abstinence remains a fundamental challenge for drug users. The retrieval - extinction procedure offers promise in augmenting the efficacy of exposure based treatment for drug use and for protecting against relapse to drug seeking. Preceding extinction training with a brief retrieval or reminder trial, retrieval - extinction training, has be...

Developing approaches to the creation of expert performance practice on new DMIs is a longstanding research challenge. We present an approach which leverages an expert performer’s embodied knowledge of expressive performance gesture on an existing instrument. This knowledge forms the basis for the creation of a performance practice of expressive gestures an a new DMI. The research process took ...