: the purpose of this study is to identify the gender differences in identity styles, commitment and quality of friendship. for this reason, 400 high school students from 19 educational regions in tehran (males –females) are chosen randomly. three scales are administrated: identity style inventory-six grade (white et al, 1998), quality of friendship (hejazi, zohrevand, 1380) and socio-metric qu...

BACKGROUND The evolving concept of peace-building and the interplay between peace and health is examined in many venues, including at the World Health Assembly. However, without a metric to determine effectiveness of intervention programs all efforts are prone to subjective assessment. This paper develops a psychometric index that lays the foundation for measuring community peace stemming from ...

* Christopher K. Peace represents the 97th District of the Virginia House of Delegates, which includes part of Hanover, King William, and all of New Kent County, Virginia. Peace serves on the Appropriations, Health Welfare and Institutions, and General Laws (Vice Chair) Committees. He is Chairman of the General Laws Subcommittee on Housing, Chair of the Appropriations Sub-committee on Transport...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G). A defensive alliance in G is a subset S of V (G) such that for every vertex v ∈ S, |N [v] ∩ S| ≥ |(V (G)−N [v]) ∩ S|. A global defensive alliance is an alliance that is also a dominating set. We define the alliance partition number, ψa(G) (global alliance partition number, ψg(G)), to be the maximum number of sets in a partition of V (G) ...

WHO is honored to cosponsor this important event together with the Ministry of Health of Brazil, ILA and ILEP. We are especially grateful to Government of Brazil and members of the Organizing Committee for planning and organizing the Congress. This is the second important meeting which the Brazilian authorities have kindly hosted this year the first being the meeting of the Global Alliance for ...

In this article, we analyze the relationship between positive psychology and peace psychology. We discuss how positive emotions, engagement, meaning, personal well-being, and resilience may impact peace at different levels, ranging from the personal and interpersonal to community, national, and global peace. First, we argue that an individual's positive experiences, personal well-being, and per...

allameh fadlullah is known as the poet of the jurists and the jurist of the poets. in his diwan (collection of poems), he has addressed a variety of themes, including the prophet’s character. he believes that prophet muhammad was not a mere servant of allah. he was a transmitter of the massage and a connector of god and ummah (the islamic nation), rather than simply a connector of god and an in...