psychological empowerment: a strategy for promotion of participatory decision-making, and organizational citizenship behavior (case study: urmia medical university)     hassani m [1] *, majidi j [2]     received: 21 aug, 2012 accepted: 21 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the present study surveys the relationships between participatory decision- making, organizational citizenship be...

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In a modest patch of land in southwest London, it would be hard to conceive a greater richness of biological diversity, history and research activity. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing several top-rated architecturally distinguished buildings, a world-leading collection of growing plant species, one of the finest collections of archival botanical material in the world and documents fro...

Lake Urmia, Iran. There is widespread interest in restoring drying saline lakes. At Iran’s hypersaline managers have sought a uniform target lake level of 1274.1 m above sea to lower salinity below 263 g L?1 and recover Artemia sufficient densities support flamingos. We suggest that addressing broader range objectives will allow more flexibility for managing the lake. define eight restoration s...

Drying lakes have become a new source of dust, causing severe problems in surrounding areas. From 2000 to 2017, statistical study was conducted on Lake Urmia Iran the Middle East. The results indicated significant increase annual number dusty days stations around lake and mean aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550 nm. sharp decrease snowfall rate over area since 2007 has been linked lake’s decreas...

the relationships between forgiveness and d-type personality with hope in patient with coronary heart disease in urmia city     issazadegan a [1] , shykhi s [2] , banehasmishishevan sr [3] , salmanpour h [4]     received: 12 oct, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : many studies have demonstrated the role of psychological and behavioral risk factors in the etiology and...