Background and Objectives: Job stress is not always caused directly by the stressful sources, but it results more from the way in which those sources are perceived. Therefore, a lot of factors are effective in job stress. As such, the present study was done to predict the job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-diffrentiation of teachers of exceptional children in the town of Shahri...

Lone survivor of seven sets of twins born to his mother, he started life as a legend among the Yoruba in Nigeria, who have one of the highest rates of twin births and infant deaths in the world. According to family lore, he was the spirit that kept trying to be born and kept being turned back, the child "born to die." Bamidele to his father, Olaniyi to his grandmother, Prince Twins Seven-Seven ...

to understand the role of religiousness/spirituality in coping in children with cystic fibrosis (cf). participants were a convenience sample of 23 patients with cf, ages 5 to 12 years and their parent(s) in an ambulatory cf clinic. the design was a focused ethnography including in-depth interviews with children and parent(s), children’s drawings and self-administered written parental questionna...

Background and Aim: Blood samples are used for the diagnosis of many diseases. Serum ferritin level is known to be a marker of anemia and iron overload disorders. However, blood collection is an invasive method. Saliva, as a bio-fluid, contains a va-riety of important components that are successfully used for assessment of body health. The use of saliva samples for ferritin evaluation can be re...