121 research outputs found
A Path Analysis of Factors Affecting Social Control of Cybercultural Transgressions
Social control of cyberspace is a necessity to restrict online transgressions (non-normative behaviors), and reduce their disruptive effects. The current study aimed at examining the factors affecting social control of cybercultural transgressions. A questionnaire was administered to Iranian social media users, and 989 participants have filled it out. A path analysis model was constructed testing the effects of Low Self-Control, Depression, Negative Interpersonal Relationships, Computer/ Internet Self-Efficacy, Netiquette, and Normative Beliefs on Transgressive Behaviors, and Transgressive Content Consumption. The results showed that Low Self-Control increased both criterion variables, and fully or partially mediated the effects of other variables on them, except for Negative Interpersonal Relationships. The important contribution of the current study was the recognition of the role of self-control as a mediator among examined variables. The findings of this study can be employed to devise new policies and initiatives to socially control the cybercultural transgressions, without applying coercion
Self-Control and Cybercultural Transgressions: How Social Media Users Differ
Cyber transgressions (nonnormative behaviors, attitudes and conditions) - both cultural and criminal - have raised social control concerns among different stakeholders. A group comparison research design was adopted to examine the effects of sociodemographic factors and social media use habits of Iranian social media users (n= 989) on their self-control, cybercultural transgressive behaviors, and transgressive content consumption. The study has contributed to the literature by recognizing the impacts of gender, age, relationship status, parental, educational, and occupational status, and household income level on the outcome variables. Altogether, it can be inferred from the results that individuals (especially women) who are older, married, have children, are middle-income, university educated, non-student, have more years of Internet use experience, and less daily internet use, and have a job (also retired individuals and housewives) are less likely than others to commit online transgressive behaviors, or consume transgressive content. The findings of this study can be employed to devise new policies and initiatives to socially control the cybercultural transgressions, without applying coercion
Subsystem Tabulation of the Single Pass RF Driver
This paper presents a subsystem-by-subsystem
description of the Single Pass RF Driver (SPRFD).
The purposes are to show SPRFD’s relationships
to RF driver features assessed from 1976, to
isolate the differences that affect prior conclusions
about workability of RF drivers including
confidence in pellet ignition, and to highlight the
key associated technical issues to help prompt
experts in the various areas to appreciate the
specific challenges and perhaps become interested
in their assessment. For important context and to
show the excellent prospects for the complete HIF
power plant, the pellet and chamber subsystems
are likewise described and assessed..
Compilation and validation of the puppet show-based social skills training package and its effectiveness on the behavioral problems of the preschoolers
Background: The aim of this study was to compile and validate the social skills training (SST) package based on puppet shows and determine its effectiveness on the behavioral problems of preschoolers.
Methods: 40 preschool children were selected using available sampling method to evaluate the effectiveness of the compiled package on behavioral problems of preschool children (puppet shows, all components of preschool social skills) using a semi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design. Then the intervention and the control group were selected. The opinions of the experts were collected by the Delphi method. The research population at this stage was all the specialists in the field of SST of children whom 10 were selected using purposive sampling method. The validity was confirmed using content validity index (CVI). Data of the behavioral problems subscale were collected using the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), and analyzed using one-way analysis of covariance.
Results: The findings showed that the effect of the SST package based on puppet show in the intervention group was statistically significant (F=47.28, P<0.05), so that it was effective in reducing behavioral problems of preschoolers. To validate the package, content validity index (CVI) was used, which was obtained as 0.87.
Conclusion: In order to prevent and treat behavioral disorders in children, harmless treatment methods can be replaced physical punishment and verbal aggression. Correct and continuous training of social skills, along with correct and friendly communication with attractive and entertaining methods such as showing puppets to children, can be a solution to improve behavioral problems at this age
Explanation of Experiences and Emotional Reactions in Women Victims of Infidelity: A Qualitative Study
Introduction: Infidelity as one of the main causes for divorce has very deleterious effects on family, mental health, and feelings of the victims. The purpose of this study was to identify and explain emotional experiences and reactions of women victims of infidelity.
Method: In this interpretative study with phenomenology method, study population consisted of women victims of infidelity in Shemiranat, Tehran City, Iran, in 2016. 18 women of 22-64 years who were victims of the infidelity were selected through purposive sampling and were investigated by a semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed using a thematic analysis method.
Results: The data analysis resulted in two main themes, 12 subthemes, and 61 initial concepts. As the first theme, ‘maladaptive emotional reactions’ consisted of subthemes as the feelings of separation from life (including feelings of sadness, frustration, and desire for death), separation from oneself (including inadequacy, and sense of abandonment), anger, hatred, cruelty, vulnerability, emotional confusion, fear and anxiety, numbness, and coldness. The second main theme was ‘adaptive emotional reactions’ consisting of subthemes as feelings of self-worth (including one’s own and spouse), compassion (including toward the spouse, and toward the rival), and attachment to the spouse (interest in the spouse, sense of their ownership, and their forgiveness).
Conclusion: The results showed that infidelity was a phenomenon not experienced similarly by all women victims. Based on social constructivists, different perceptions of women victims causing different patterns of reactions to infidelity in them. Given the fact that the findings have been elicited out of a native study, they may play a vital role in developing the intervention packages.
Keywords: Extramarital sex behavior, Adultery, Affair, Extramarital relations, Emotional aspects, Affective aspect
Employed nurse's awareness about nursing sighted tasks
Setting the nurse's sighted tasks and clarifying communicative lines and their purposes help effectively to establish appropriate working conditions. Approved nurse's sighted tasks are sensible and necessary for all nursing rankings and levels. Regarding this, a research for determining the nurses' awareness about nursing sighted tasks was conducted in internal and surgical wards in Tabriz selected hospitals. This survey was a descriptive study. 298 nurses were studied through a questionnaire that contained 40 questions in the form of self - reporting check list. 21 questions of 40 questions of the questionnaire were nursing sighted tasks; 19 ones were not. Reliability of the test was analyzed by SPSS14 statistical software during the study on 20 nurses. Inner correlation coefficient of questioner was 0.88. Most of the nurses were female (90.3%) and 69.5% married. 98.7% bachelor in nursing, and 90.9% of the nurses had BSc in nursing, 60.7% were under the professional responsibility insurance, and worked as nurses, respectively. The averages of nurses' ages and working background in nursing profession were 5.9 +/- 33.6 years and 73.13 +/- 108.3 months, respectively. Most of the nurses had average awareness about nursing sighted tasks, and Just 7.4% and 11.4% had low and good awareness. 67.4% and 29.9% of the subjects had known the presence of nursing duties composition very necessary and necessary. Overall, 97.3% of them have known the presence of duties composition very necessary and essential, and so these ones tended to be aware of their duties composition. Just 24.2% of the nurses had stated that there exists nursing duties composition. These cases can indicate the low level in-service education periods and also low nurses academic educations in this field. There are often ambiguous points in nursing activities which are arisen from working interferences with the other medicine professions in hospitals. Nurses are expected to do some procedure which is not their sighted tasks or they have not been trained enough about. Nurses ` activities in the affairs out of their sighted tasks and have done by system pressure have frequently led to complain of the nurses, and so this issue faces the nurses with so many difficulties. Esmaeili Vardanjani SA, Mohajjel Aghdam AR, Sohrabi M, Malekpoor P, Dadkhah D, Alinejad H. Employed nurse's awareness about sighted tasks. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):5501-5505] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 81
UNSUPERVISED PART OF SPEECH TAGGING FOR PERSIAN
Abstract In this paper we present a rather novel unsupervised method for part of speech (below POS) disambiguation which has been applied to Persian. This method known as Iterative Improved Feedback (IIF) Model, which is a heuristic one, uses only a raw corpus of Persian as well as all possible tags for every word in that corpus as input. During the process of tagging, the algorithm passes through several iterations corresponding to n-gram levels of analysis to disambiguate each word based on a previously defined threshold. The total accuracy of the program applying in Persian texts has been calculated as 93 percent, which seems very encouraging for POS tagging in this language
Removal of Arsenic Ions from Aqueous Solutions Using Conducting Polymers
In this study, polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PANi) and poly 3-methyl thiophene (P3MTh) conducting polymers were synthesized chemically as coated on the surface of wood sawdust (SD), then used for removal of arsenic ions (As3+) from aqueous solutions. The experiments were performed using both batch and column systems. In order to find out the possibility of desorption for frequent application, the chemical regeneration of the used column was also investigate
Identifying and Validating Components of Decision-Making of the Secondary School Pricniplals in Iranian Eeducation System
The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of administrators decision making in educational organization. This research method was a mixed exploratory research. The statistical population in the qualitative section included all school principals in Tehran and expert principals of educational system and the sampling method was purposeful and theoretical. In quantitative part, the statistical population was all school principals in Tehran, which according to Cochran's formula, the number of sample members was 249. Data collection tool in the qualitative part of the interview was semi-structured and retesting and reliability between the two coders were used to check the validity and reliability of the interviews and coding, and they are approved as 0.75 and 0.77 respectively. The collection tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was checked and confirmed by content validity method and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the instrument was evaluated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha method, and it was approved as 0.625. Grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data in the qualitative part. One-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the quantitative part. The findings showed: 1- Dimensions of decision making were classified into eight categories: knowledge, experience and expertise, ethical, psychological, social, human, technical and economic. 2- There was a significant correlation between the dimensions and components. 3- Knowledge dimension and psychological dimension had the highest and lowest mean, respectively
Identifying the dimensions and components of teachers' professional competence and presenting a conceptual model at the level of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Competence is a structure that casts a shadow over all the weaknesses and excellent performances of a teacher like an umbrella. The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions and components of teachers' professional competence in the level of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The grounded theory qualitative research method has been used. The community of this research included experts in educational sciences and all developmental documents and theoretical foundations, and 11 people were selected as the research sample based on the two factors of expertise and experience, from university professors until the data reached theoretical saturation through targeted sampling; The data collection tools were semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and documents related to the topic. After the implementation of the interviews, primary data analysis was done through inductive content analysis using open, central and selective coding techniques and using Max QDA software for qualitative data analysis. Validity was confirmed by the three-way method of data sources, and its reliability was obtained by the agreement method between two coders of 86.03%, which shows high concordance and adequate reliability. The research findings were identified in 4 dimensions and 19 components and 96 sub-components, which are: professional knowledge, professional practice, professional commitment and professional identity development. Therefore, professional competence including professional ethics, adherence to religious values and professional competence has been explained and should be used in new methods of teacher training
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