The main objective of this research is studying the relationship between working capital management and profitability. Cash conversion cycle is one of the important measuring tools to calculate the efficiency of working capital management. The time realm of the research was 2001-2006 and the studied companies have been the ones accepted in Tehran stock exchange. In general, out of 2628 companie...

Over the past few years, the topic of self-compassion has attracted increasing attention from both scientific and clinical fields. The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) was created to specifically capture this way of being kind and understanding towards oneself in moments of turmoil. In this article, we present a French adaptation of the SCS. We first explore the psychometric properties of this adapt...

The current article presents both quantitative and qualitative reviews of research examining the relation between childhood maltreatment and negative cognitive styles. The results of both reviews suggest that there is a small but significant relation between childhood emotional maltreatment and cognitive styles, and that this relation may be stronger for studies including maltreatment committed...

We present four classes of nonlinear systems which may be considered discrete analogues of the Garnier system. These systems arise as discrete isomonodromic deformations of systems of linear difference equations in which the associated Lax matrices are presented in a factored form. A system of discrete isomonodromic deformations is completely determined by commutation relations between the fact...