Article history: Received 17 June 2015 Received in revised form 2 January 2016 Accepted 5 January 2016 Available online 15 January 2016 We examined whether burnout is associated with a depressive cognitive style, understood as a combination of dysfunctional attitudes, ruminative responses, and pessimistic attributions. A total of 1386 U.S. public school teachers were included—1063 women (MAGE: ...

Rough sets, introduced by Pawlak as a model to capture impreciseness in data have been a very useful tool in several applications. These basic rough sets are defined by taking equivalence relations over a universe. In order to enhance the modeling powers of rough sets, several extensions to the basic definition has been introduced over the past few years. Extending the single granular structure...

Modern concurrent programming benefits from a large variety of synchronization techniques. These include conventional pessimistic locking, as well as optimistic techniques based on conditional synchronization primitives or transactional memory. Yet, it is unclear which of these approaches better leverage the concurrency inherent to multi-cores. In this paper, we compare the level of concurrency...

ÐPast research in message logging has focused on studying the relative overhead imposed by pessimistic, optimistic, and causal protocols during failure-free executions. In this paper, we give the first experimental evaluation of the performance of these protocols during recovery. Our results suggest that applications face a complex trade-off when choosing a message logging protocol for fault to...

Objectives: The present study was aimed to determine the effect of psychological immunization on pessimistic attribution in Female students with dyslexia. Methods: The study was an experimental one, in which 60 Female students with dyslexia were selected randomly from Learning Disabilities Centers in Isfahan. Subjects  were  assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individua...

Background & Aims: There is a high prevalence of burnout in modern societies and it encompasses all aspects of life. Thus, this study investigated the effects of personality dimensions and attribution styles variables on the dependent variable of job burnout with the mediating role of resiliency in surgeons in Kerman, Iran. Methods: The target population consisted of 127 surgeons of whom 90 sur...