background: reducing drug-related issues less than 18 years of age and increasing population of this group of addiction emphasizes importance of educating social skills for reinforcing drug assistance self-efficiency in this social group. the study was aimed to measure impact of social skills on drug abstinence self-efficacy amongst male students in ahwaz city, southwest iran. methods: with sem...

Robotic technology is gradually becoming commonplace in the medical sector and in the service of patients. Medical conditions that have benefited from significant technological development include stroke, for which rehabilitation with robotic devices is administered, and surgery assisted by robots. Robotic devices have also been proposed for assistance of movement disorders. Pathological tremor...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individual-focused stress management training namely deep breathing exercise (dbe) on self-perceived occupational stress among male automotive assembly-line workers.a quasi-experimental study was conducted at 2 automotive assembly plants in malaysia over 9 months, from january 2012 to september 2012. assembly-line workers from plant a r...

An increasingly popular instrument for solving environmental problems is the “public voluntary agreement (VA),” in which government o¤ers technical assistance and positive publicity to ...rms that reach certain environmental goals. Prior papers treat such agreements as a superior, low-cost instrument that can be used to preempt a threat of traditional, ine¢cient, regulation. We present a more g...

We recalibrate den Haan, Haefke, and Ramey’s matching model to capture our preferred specification of ‘turbulence’, modelled in terms of the transition dynamics of human capital after voluntary and involuntary job losses. Under our calibration, an increase in turbulence increases the unemployment rate and the duration of unemployment while leaving the inflow rate into unemployment roughly uncha...

‘C HILD welfare services furnished by the States and localities are financed from Federal, State, and local funds. A study of expenditures made by State and local public welfare agencies for child welfare services in the year ended June 30, 1956, shows that, although the States vary in the amounts expended, some patterns become apparent when they are grouped according to region, urban-rural cha...

background in the past 10 years, 13 fatal earthquakes have occurred in iran and led to death of 30,000 people whom most of them were killed in the earlier hours of the disaster. disaster medical assistance teams are groups of trained medical and non-medical personnel with various combinations that on the optimal conditions are deployed just within 8 hours of notification and are able to work se...

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is the national and international responsibility protect populations against mass atrocities. This article discusses prospects for implementation of R2P objectives in a world where Asian powers rise. It focuses not only on prevention assistance but also decisive action, most controversial aspect R2P, tied UN Security Council China resides as permanent member with...

This article aims at giving a contribution to the issue of protecting bank accounts and deposits by national deposit guarantee schemes through financial assistance interventions an optional voluntary nature, instead reimbursement only legally protected in case bankruptcy depository bank. Firstly, we investigate EU framework for crisis resolutions. Specifically, briefly analyze rules on both pre...