The theory and practice show that transactional leadership is a necessary, evolutionary path to transformational and charismatic leadership of the time in a relatively stable business environment, time for operating in a turbulent environment with many unknowns. Transformation phase and charismatic leadership are characterized by different interactions of social actors, initiative, efficiency a...

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...

A standard assumption in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and computational research on pronoun use is that production and interpretation are guided by the same set of contextual factors. Kehler et al. (2008) and Kehler & Rohde (2013) have argued instead for a Bayesian model, one in which pronoun production is insensitive to a class of semanticallyand pragmaticallydriven contextual biases that hav...

how to cite this article: afsharkhas l, khalessi n, karimi panah m. intraventricular hemorrhage in term neonates: sources, severity and outcome. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):34-39.   abstract objective intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) occurs in preterm infants; however, the occurrence of this event is less frequent in term neonates. the present study evaluated clinical characteristics...

introduction : comorbidity is a new term in psychiatric nosology which despite its expansive use is not clearly defined. overlapping of axis i and axis ii disorders in multiaxial system of dsm and controversy over which disorders belong to which axis, have also complicated the issue. a number of studies investigating patterns of comorbidity for axis i and axis ii disorders could not find a one ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of Occupational Therapy (OT) in Iran. This is a hallmark to reflect on our achievements and plan for the future. Iranian OT was established in 1971 in Shafa Rehabilitation Hospital [1]. I can imagine how many people who were the managers facilitating the foundation of the department or those who were overseas occupational therapists were excited at the time. Th...