An important requirement of autonomic systems is that they self-adapt, both with respect to internal self-healing and with respect to external environmental changes. In order to fulfill this requirement autonomic systems must have awareness abilities, context gathering mechanisms, context-dependent adaptation policies, and the ability to react with respect to each adaptation requirement. In thi...

this research aimed to study of the effects of classroom goal structures on students’ psychological wellbeing with respect to the mediating role of self-efficacy and basic psychological needs. in this regard, the effects of performance and mastery goal structure as exogenous variables with self-efficacy and basic psychological needs as mediating variables on wellbeing were tested through a hypo...

the present paper aimed at assessing the effects of young people’s indicators of life skills. the theoretical foundation of this research was obtained from adler’s and the world health organization’s viewpoints on life skill and mental health. the method of this study was a survey (applied, descriptive and correlation), and the sample group consisted of young people aged 15-29 in hajiabad town ...

Self-pity is a frequent response to stressful events. So far, however, empirical research has paid only scant attention to this subject. The present article aims at exploring personality characteristics associated with individual differences in feeling sorry for oneself. Two studies with N = 141 and N = 161 university students were conducted, employing multidimensional measures of personality, ...

W hy do people work? Economic theory generally, and the principal– agent model specifically, emphasize the role of material incentives. The standard assumption is that people work hard only if they receive monetary compensation for doing so. However, a substantial body of evidence contradicts the standard economic model. Many salaried academics, for example, work diligently year after year, con...

let $mathcal {a}$ be an abelian category with enough projective objects and $mathcal {x}$ be a full subcategory of $mathcal {a}$. we define gorenstein projective objects with respect to $mathcal {x}$ and $mathcal{y}_{mathcal{x}}$, respectively, where $mathcal{y}_{mathcal{x}}$=${ yin ch(mathcal {a})| y$ is acyclic and $z_{n}yinmathcal{x}}$. we point out that under certain hypotheses, these two g...

introduction: this study was conducted with aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation and self-esteem of students. methods: the present research was of a correlational study. the research population consisted of all students (boys and girls) studying at islamic azad university, payam noor and applied science universities in darehshahr city in the academic year of 2013-...