background scrophularia striata (scrophulariaceae family) is an herbaceous plant that is traditionally used for treatment of microbial infections. objectives antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of different extracts (methanolic, ethanolic, aqueous and ethyl acetate) from s. striata aerial parts was evaluated. materials and methods the antimicrobial activity of different extracts from s. stri...

asthma affects an estimated 300 million people worldwide. poor compliance with the prescribed medication leads to increased mortality and morbidity. various determinants of compliance have been described. the purpose of this study was to determine factors that can influence patients' compliance with prescribed metered dose inhaler drugs. 179 patients with diagnosis of asthma were selected from ...

This study examined the possibility that the relation between extrinsic rewards (e.g., pay and recognition) and employee creativity varied as a function of two conditions: employee job complexity and employee cognitive style. Our results showed a positive relation between extrinsic rewards and creativity for employees with an adaptive cognitive style who worked on relatively simple jobs. We fou...

in the business environment, virtual organizations can meet market needs efficiently and effectively via knowledge worker and high flexibility and also generate significant competitive advantage. due to obtaining the advantage of these organizations, managerial issues related to them must be recognized and organized. decrease of face to face relationship, geographically distributed, dynamic job...

consumer ethnocentrism as an important factor in consumers’ buying decisions of local or imported products has been the topic of so many researches. for this reason the present study by taking 230 students of university of isfahan as its statistical sample, first has tried to measure their ethnocentrism in consumption context, then by use of regression analysis the relation of consumer ethnocen...

We develop a comprehensive and parsimonious measure of the extent to which a firm is raising (distributing) capital from (to) capital market participants. We show that the relation between our measure of net external financing and future stock returns is stronger than has been documented in previous research focusing on individual categories of financing transactions. Decompositions of our meas...

In ‘The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life’, Herrnstein and Murray reported a negative relation between intelligence and divorce risks. This article analyses the relationship between intelligence and divorce risks for two different Dutch cohorts, for which data on their intelligence measured during their childhood, are available. A positive relation between intelligen...

In this paper, we investigate the global behavior of the difference equation of order three xn+1 = α+ xn−2 xn , n = 0, 1, . . . where the parameters α, k ∈ (0,∞) and the initial values x−2, x−1 and x0 are arbitrary positive real numbers.