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Stakeholder’s perception of service quality: a case in Qatar
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate and report students’ perception of service quality in a university by examining the perceptual context of service quality with respect to students’ loyalty behavior, ...
Culture, social contestation and Turkey's failed coup: The rivalry of social imaginaries
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SETA
, 2016 , Article)
This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to Turkey’s failed coup. To accomplish that, it unravels how people construct ...
Italo-australian transnational houses: Built forms enhancing social capital
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ArchNet
, 2016 , Article)
The literature reveals that culture, as a way of life, is a factor determining the house's spatial form, which, in turn, can contribute to the construction and/or enhancement of social capital. Scholars also stress that ...
Parenting, personality, and culture as predictors of perfectionism
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Springer New York LLC
, 2018 , Article)
This study examined the relationship between parenting styles, personality traits, culture, and perfectionism. Male and female undergraduate university students from the US (n = 168) and the Middle East (n = 74) completed ...
A cross-cultural comparison of health behaviors between Saudi and British adolescents living in urban areas: Gender by country analyses
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MDPI
, 2013 , Article)
This study investigated the cross-cultural differences and similarity in health behaviors between Saudi and British adolescents. A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted at four cities in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and ...
The Symbolic Realm of Italian Migrants’ Post-WWII Houses in Australia
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
The Post-WWII period witnessed a large immigration flow of Italians towards Australia. This was facilitated by the assisted passage scheme funded by the Italian and Australian governments. Italian migrants, as well as ...
Addressing context to understand physical activity among Muslim university students: the role of gender, family, and culture.
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BMC
, 2019 , Article)
Physical inactivity is a crucial risk factor for the development of chronic health issues, which have a high incidence among Arabs living in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The Qatar Stepwise Survey 2012 ...
Exploring the influence of cultural orientations on assessment of communication behaviours during patient-practitioner interactions
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Background
Research has shown that patients’ and practitioners’ cultural orientations affect communication behaviors and interpretations in cross-cultural patient-practitioner interactions. Little is known about the effect ...
The determinants of student effort at learning ERP: A cultural perspective
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Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals
, 2015 , Article)
This paper develops a research model based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT) and Hofstede's cultural dimensions to explore factors that influence student effort at learning Enterprise ...
A systematic meta-ethnographic review of the beneficial outcomes of international internships to student pharmacists
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AACP
, 2017 , Article)
Objective. To describe the benefits that pharmacy students gain by completing international internships as a part of their pharmacy education. Methods. A systematic literature search was conducted from database inception ...