OBJECTIVE Previous research has found that conscientiousness has positive associations with preventative health-related behaviors and self-perceived health, but little is known about the links between changes in these variables over time. In the present study, we examined how levels and changes in conscientiousness were linked to levels and changes in both preventative health-related behaviors ...

Poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the United States of America. In the history of the United States, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. This paper intends to investigate poverty among Hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. Within this per...

generosity is one of the most admirable values in the world. values have significant effects on the individual and organizational life. the aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of generosity in organization and give answer to 6 important questions (what, why, who, where, when & how) plus consequences of generosity in organization. the most important contribution of this paper is the ty...

the issue of the individual unity of being is among the issues in the field of theoretical mysticism which all of the muslim mystics have agreed upon. as such, some of them have attempted to base this theory on proof, among whom is mohammad reza qomshei. qomshei’s proof has been accepted by some philosophers and criticized by others, among whom is hakim jelwe who was contemporaneous with qomshe...

Background: The Shielding methods in radiotherapy due to delivering an accurate radiation dose to cancer tissues and avoiding unnecessary dose to normal tissues are very important. These methods include Lead standard blocks, individual molding and multi leaf collimator (MLC). The MLC method is not still common in Iran radiotherapy centers. Individual molding is better than the lead block shield...

The purpose of the present study is to propose a scheme to estimate whole-body averaged specific absorption rate (WBA-SAR) in the whole-body resonance and GHz frequency regions. The motivation is that WBA-SARs in the child models in these frequency regions have been reported to approach to the basic restrictions in the international guidelines/standards. In the resonance frequency region, we pr...

background: artemia urmiana are small crustaceans that because of its non-selective filter feeder pattern potentially may absorb high level of heavy metals through their living environment. in this study, the effects of different levels of cadmium and copper on survival, catalase activity and metals bioconcentration rates in a. urmiana nauplii have been investigated. methods: the research was c...