ambiguity is one of very important techniques in persian rhetoric, but in spite of its importance, it seems there is not enough accuracy in its definition and types.  the present essay tries to redefine the concept of ambiguity. we will begin by analyzing the definitions of ambiguity and amphiboly according to the old and new persian sources; then we presents a new definition and review and ana...

The well-documented day-to-day and long-term experiences of job stress and burnout among employees in child welfare organisations increasingly raise concerns among leaders, policy makers and scholars. Testing a theory-driven longitudinal model, this study seeks to advance understanding of the differential impact of job stressors (work-family conflict, role conflict and role ambiguity) and burno...

Recent psycholinguistics research suggests that the executive function (EF) skill known as conflict resolution - the ability to adjust behavior in the service of resolving among incompatible representations - is important for several language processing tasks such as lexical and syntactic ambiguity resolution, verbal fluency, and common-ground assessment. Here, we discuss work showing that vari...

This paper analyses a bilateral trade problem with asymmetric information and ambiguity aversion. There is a buyer and a seller who bargain over the exchange of an indivisible good. The seller is privately informed about the quality of the good, which determines both his valuation and the buyer’s valuation. In the absence of ambiguity, the contract that maximizes the buyer’s payoff is a posted ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have been conducted on role conflict in nursing faculty in the world. This research reports the first study about this subject in Iran. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of role conflict in Iranian nursing faculty members. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a qualitative study using a conventional content analysis approach. We used...