in recent years, many changes have been observed in buying culture of customers and developing chain stores in iran. moreover, need to be more competition in business environments made necessary the stablishment of chain stores, the creation of competitive advantage and long relations to the costumers. regular marketing is a response to stores requirement when establishing such a win-win long r...

the aim of the present study was to examine the impact of jihadi camps on the identity formationof teenagers in iran. seventy-six campers participated in the study and were randomly divided into control(n = 42) and experimental groups (n =34). the control group does not follow the camp’s regular program whilethe experimental group attended to the camp’s regular program. all participants complet...

A distributed presentation of a regular language L is a system of communicating automata accepting L, where the constraint on distribution is given in the form of a distributed alphabet. We study such presentations in the assumption-commitment framework , where each process makes assumptions about other processes in the system. Symmetrically, each process makes commitments which the other proce...

In a transactional system, an atomic commitment protocol ensures that for any transaction , all Data Manager processes agree on the same outcome (commit or abort). A non-blocking atomic commitment protocol enables an outcome to be decided at every correct process despite the failure of others. In this paper we apply, for the rst time, the fundamental result of Chandra and Toueg on solving the a...

Teamwork is crucial to organizational success and commitment to teams is an important predictor of team-related behaviors. However, theorists and researchers have typically assumed that commitment levels are generally stablewithin-persons, increasing or decreasing as a result of substantial organizational changes. This position is at odds with the evidence of systematic and regular intraindivid...

Building upon Deci's and Ryan (1985) Self-determination theory as well as the sportive behavioral correlates of the model of Commitment (Scanlan et al., 1976), this study tries to establish the relationship between motivation and commitment in youth sport. For this purpose 454 young competitive soccer players answered the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) and the Sport Commitment Questionnaire (SCQ)...

Background. Although most people are aware of the advantages of physical exercise, they fail to adhere to a regular routine of exercise, which necessitates this intervention. Objectives. In this study, by controlling the moderating role of the variable of commitment to exercise, the effect of a special cognitive-behavioral intervention on the commitment and adherence to an exercise routine has...

This paper provides a starting point for psychological research on the sense of commitment within the context of joint action. We begin by formulating three desiderata: to illuminate the motivational factors that lead agents to feel and act committed, to pick out the cognitive processes and situational factors that lead agents to sense that implicit commitments are in place, and to illuminate t...