The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing personality traits among athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students studying at Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. 280 athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students (130 Iranians, 40 Syrians, 80 Afghans, and 30 Yemenis) were picked using Stratified Random Sampling method, and they completed NEO-FFI (a shortened form of revised bi...

Sakineh HajEbrahimi, Ali Janati, Edris Hasanpoor, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Mobin Sokhanvar, Fariba Pashzadeh, Elaheh HaghGoshyie. Professor of urology, Iranian EBM Centre of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associate professor of Healthcare Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Ph.D...

t takes a whole village to raise a child.” The much-quoted African proverb says it can’t be done by an individual teacher, or even by several teachers working independently. Instead, it requires communal effort of many adults, in a variety of roles, who share a unified common purpose, and who help one another to teach and socialize their youth. School restructuring can enhance this sense of com...

10,000 words on a single picture, and a similar Japanese proverb devalues this to only 100 words. In most languages the current consensus seems to be that a picture is worth 1000 words. Whatever the true worth in words a good picture is capable of conveying (sometimes quite complex) meaning clearly and without the need for language. Show a picture of an elephant to speakers of two different lan...

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” Latin Proverb The aviation community is undergoing a reappraisal of progress made in automated cockpits. This gives the shipping community the opportunity to learn from someone else’s mistakes and successes. Aviation has invested more heavily in automation than shipping, and in some respects can be considered to be ‘ahead’. The re...