background and objectives: appropriate attitude about enjoining good and forbidding evil (egfe) as two fundamental topics in islam that are known as a social phenomenon can use as a powerful tool in islamic organizations to promote happiness, management improvement and correction of defficiencies. the objective was to assess attitude of hospital staff regarding enjoining good and forbidding evi...

Task allocation is a key problem, which has a direct influence on the system performance in all kinds of distributed systems. This paper focuses on a specific kind of task allocation in swarm robotic systems, where the tasks are associated with specific time constraints. The paper presents a self-organized task allocation strategy, which aims to assign robot swarms to time-constrained tasks in ...

Prioritarianism is supposed to be a theory of the overall good that captures the common intuition of “priority to the worse off”. But it is difficult to give precise content to the prioritarian claim. Over the past few decades, prioritarians have increasingly responded to this ‘content problem’ by formulating prioritarianism not in terms of an alleged primitive notion of quantity of well-being,...

Background and Objectives: Although a growing interest on the role of self-efficacy in weight management is reported worldwide, less research has been carried out on this association in adolescents. The aim of the present study was to investigate association of weight linked self-efficacy with anthropometric measurements in Tehrani male adolescents. Materials and Methods: The study was carried...

This study examined the efficacy of a self-administered behavioral family intervention for 126 parents of toddlers. The effects of 2 different levels of intensity of the self-administered intervention were contrasted (self-administered alone or self-administered plus brief therapist telephone assistance). The results provide support for the efficacy of the self-administered form of behavioral f...

background: in this study we sought to investigate clinical findings (with a focus on neurologic effects) and also to analyze outcomes of a series of patients with methanol poisoning admitted to two poisoning treatment centers in tehran, iran. methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, methanol-poisoned patients admitted to departments of forensic medicine and toxicology of loghman hak...

In general, organisms are motivated to avoid stimuli that induce pain. However, some individuals intentionally inflict pain on themselves (e.g., nonsuicidal self-injury) and report doing so for the perceived emotional benefits following the experience of pain. Two controlled laboratory studies sought to expand upon the relatively limited literature on the effects of pain on emotion. In Study 1,...