In this second of two papers on minimally disruptive medicine, we use the language of patient workload and patient capacity from the Cumulative Complexity Model to accomplish three tasks. First, we outline the current context in healthcare, comprised of contrasting problems: some people lack access to care and others receive too much care in an overmedicalised system, both of which reflect imba...

This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and changes that they aim achieve through actions. Focusing on different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when present actions own role within movement, we show ‘character work’ – effort shape reputation is essential feature discourse. In particu...

The significance and effectiveness of pre-reading activities in the contexts of both ESL and EFL has been acknowledged by many researchers. If students lack the required background knowledge, a teacher must activate students’ background knowledge or offer background information prior to reading a text. The present study aimed at investigating the role of pre-reading questions plus extensive rea...

This research sought to examine the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement among school principals and teachers. The study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all school principals and teachers in Aleshtar (located in Lorestan Province) in school year 2016-17 from ...

Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical techniques that might contribute to an effective comprehensible multimedia presentation. Quality of voice has also been shown to be an important determinant of comprehension. The current study examines the effects of anima...

Citation: Garcia D, Andersson Arntén A-C and Archer T (2015) Editorial: Character, responsibility, and well-being: influences on mental health and constructive behavior patterns. Character can be defined as self-aware knowledge that helps the individual to set goals, values, and ethical principles (Cloninger, 2004). This meta-cognitive dimension of human personality involves " Theory of Mind, "...

in recent days which organizations provide spirituality at work, employees bring more efforts at work and are aligned with organization vision. the aim of this paper is studying the relationship between spirituality at work and engagement at work that are empirically examined at jahad keshavarzi organization of qom. for measuring spirituality at work, the millimans' questionnaire and for e...