The validity of Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of Motivation was tested empirically by surveying 2372 chemical fiber employees in 2012. In the valid sample of 1875 respondents, the degree of overall job satisfaction was more than moderate. The most highly valued components of job satisfaction were: “corporate image,” “collaborative working atmosphere,” and “supervisor’s expertise”; whereas the lo...

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...

The incidence of manifest glaucoma was determined by means of repeated automatic perimetry in a defined general population. It was estimated at 0.24% per year. It was largely independent of age but higher in women than in men and higher in the countryside than in the villages. In fact the incidence of manifest glaucoma was five times higher among women in the countryside than among men in the v...

The paper manages the tour de force of aggregating intrinsic loss functions with intrinsic (aka reference) priors. Thus, Professor Bernardo presents us with a unified picture of Bayesian analysis as he sees it and it is obviously fitting to see this cohesive perspective appearing in the Valencia 9 proceedings as a kind of third unification! We appreciated very much the paper and our comments wi...

Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) deficiencies are mostly due to mutations in the X-linked PDHA1 gene. Males with hemizygous PDHA1 mutations are clinically more severely affected, while those with mosaic PDHA1 mutations may manifest milder phenotypes. We report a patient harboring a novel, mosaic missense PDHA1 mutation, c.523G > A (p.A175T), with a severe clinical presentation of congenital...

in the present work we studied the birth order in progenies of lranian survivors of iraqi chemical attacks during a period from 1984 to 1989. then we compared the results with the birth order of the control group. despite a slight difference between the birth order in the two groups of progenies, this was not statistically significant. this does not mean, however, that there are no genetic cons...