BACKGROUND To compare mental health and well-being in different levels of the perceived discrimination among Iranian people living in Tehran. METHOD Using multi-stage sampling, 1255 subjects with the average age of 45 years and 9 months (including 672 women and 583 men) were selected and they completed all items of the general health questionnaire (GHQ), the social well-being inventory (SWI),...

OBJECTIVES This current study investigates the relationship between the endorsement of masculine and feminine gender role orientation in accordance with Bem's indices and both personal resources and coping with stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Life Orientation Scale-Revised, the Gener...

Diaphorology, coined by Roland Barthes in relation to his concept of Neutral, remains uncommented upon and insufficiently explained. It is worth noting that this word not only describes but problematizes pedagogical project. This article defends the thesis there are multiple points exchange between notion “diaphora” diaphorology. The didactic role both is, on one hand, de-hierarchize, declassif...

Members of supply chain carry inventory for different purposes. To effectively reduce the cost of inventory, information sharing mechanism is the key. The inventory can be managed in two ways in supply chain systems. The first one is the centralized inventory management system, in which, the information of inventory is highly exchanged among supply chain members. The other is the decentralized ...

Burnout is associated with poor mental and physical functioning and high costs for societies. Personality attributes may critically increase the risk of personal burnout. We specifically examined whether narcissism associates with personal burnout in a working population. We studied n=1,461 employees (mean age 41.3 ± 9.4 yr, 52% men) drawn from a random sample of a pharmaceutical company in Ger...

This paper considers a concurrent pricing and inventory control problem in a stochastic and periodic review setting. Demand in a period is random and depends on the posted price. Other than holding and backlogging costs, the system incurs stock-replenishment costs that consist of both variable and fixed components. At the beginning of each period, a simultaneous decision has to be made on stock...

today according to the competitive conditions, companies try to reduce their inventory level to diminish the costs. in companies inventory management and control should establish a balance between inventory level of spare parts, cost and the risk that arising from absence of part when is needed. it is clear that this level of spare parts inventory affected by facility characteristics and its re...