Many fault-tolerant distributed applications can be structured as one or more groups of objects that cooperate by multicasting invocations on member objects. The building of group based applications is considerably simplified if the members of a group can multicast reliably and have a mutually consistent view of the order in which events (such as invocations, host machine failures) have taken p...

Age-related changes in young children's expectations for others' resource allocation decisions were investigated. Children ages 3 to 6years (N=80) were introduced to an inequality of resources between two groups. Participants gave their expectations for (a) how a member of the group with more resources (advantaged group) and a member of the group with fewer resources (disadvantaged group) would...

the effect of manual pressure on intramuscular injection pain severity     nasiry h [1] , rahmani anaraki h [2] , asayesh h [3] *, hesam m [4] , shariati ar [5] , bathai sa [6]     received: 10 dec , 2012 accepted: 21 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : pain is one of the common experiences with intramuscular (im) injection. pain relieving technique is very important in promotion of ...

introduction: health care professionals especially clinicians, undergo lots of job stress (js). emotional intelligence (ei) is among the variables that appear to be associated with stress. it is also included among the ways adopted by the individuals in order to resist js in the workplace. thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between ei and js in the faculty members of esfahan ...

this study has been conducted with the aim of surveying the barriers and challenges of research in universities from the perspective of faculty members (islamic azad and payam-e nour, razi, medical sciences) in kermanshah done. questionnaire being used in this research is barriers and challenges from the perspective of research at universities retrieved from master thesis, it was based on liker...

Participating in scholarly events (e.g., conferences, workshops, etc.) as an elite-group member such as an organizing committee chair or member, program committee chair or member, session chair, invited speaker, or award winner is beneficial to a researcher’s career development.The objective of this study is to investigate whether elite-group membership for scholarly events is representative of...