This study was aimed at investigating the impact of organizational factors, leadership style, reward system and job design on psychological empowerment and its dimensions. This study was also aimed at measuring the level of employees' psychological empowerment. Applied research method was survey-correlation using questionnaire as the measurement tool. Statistical population included all employe...

the herd consisted of 25 captive esfahan mouflons and theiroffspring. the mouflons were wild and originated from theirnatural habitat in esfahan province. they had been kept in smallenclosures with rough concrete floors. the diet consisted ofalfalfa hay, corn silage, and a commercial concentrate. themouflons showed severe claw overgrowth and detectablesubclinical form of laminitis such as sole ...

Hospital surfaces play an important role in nosocomial infection (NI), in that the health-care environment contains a diverse population of microorganisms. Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a micro-organism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic, which is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally from a natural selection through random mutation, but co...

BACKGROUND Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis is a growing health problem in many rural areas of Iran. Rhombomys opimus, the great gerbil, is the main animal reservoir of ZCL in the northeast and central part of Iran. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the rodenticidal effect of Coumavec® (a mixture of Coumatetralyl 0.5% and Etofenprox 0.5%) on R. opimus under laboratory condition. ME...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of dental caries and treatment needs of 12-year-old children living in Teheran and a rural area surrounding Esfahan. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 1,102 pupils were examined clinically for caries according to WHO criteria. One calibrated dentist examined all children. RESULTS Of the children studied, 63.8% had sound permanent dentition, 9.9% had filled t...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Possible associations between depressive symptoms and work-related parameters have frequently been discussed in the literature. The present study was aimed to evaluate the work-related depressive symptoms and their possible-related parameters among male employees of Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO) as one of the most important industrial sites in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Wit...

with respect to many problems in rural areas such as poverty, inequality, migration, vulnerability and unemployment, the rural entrepreneurship is of great importance. doubtless entrepreneurship can increase the level of employment and income and play an important role for sustainable development in rural areas. in this article, through a behavioral approach and based on a procedural model indi...

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received: 12 June 2013 Accepted: 4 october 2013 Available online: 1 December 2013 BK virus (BKV) is a polyomavirus with seroprevalence in adults, ranging from 60 to 100%. It is considered as usual cause of renal dysfunction after the allograft renal transplantation nephropathy. Potent immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplantation can lower the rate o...