conclusions according to the results, managers of the hospitals should increase staff’s commitment through paying attention to proper job designing. patients and methods in this descriptive and correlational study, 152 iranian employees of the hospitals (physicians, nurses, and administrative staff) were selected through stratified random sampling. data gathered using 3-part questionnaire of “d...

yahya alsamavi is one of iraqi's contemporary poets who has experienced iraqis’ predicament in the years of saddam dictatorship and in the following years of american occupation and the false liberty. he is a committed poet has devoted himself honestly to the iraqi people and their sufferings, while he is himself a victim of resistance on ideals and became homelessness. his true feelings r...

background: socioeconomic status (ses) can greatly affect the clinical outcome of medical  problems. we sought to assess the in‑hospital mortality of patients with the acute coronary syndrome (acs) according to their ses. methods: all patients admitted to tehran heart center due to 1 st ‑time acs between march 2004 and august 2011 were assessed. the patients who were illiterate/lowly educated (...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence demographic factors such as gender, age, education, occupation, income, and investment experience on investor behavior bias overconfidence bias, disposition effects, herding mental accounting. This type research causal with a quantitative approach, analytical method used analysis SEM (structural equation modeling). conducted by distributing...

Aim: To model and characterize evolutionary games where individuals have states that are described by controlled Markov chains. The action of an individual in a local interaction with another randomly selected individual determines not only the instantaneous fitness but also its probability to move to another state. The goal of a player is to maximize its time average fitness. Mathematical meth...

AIM To relate indices of education, occupation, and socioeconomic status to ocular dimensions and refraction in an adult population. METHODS A population based, cross sectional survey of adult Chinese aged 40-81 years residing in the Tanjong Pagar district in Singapore. Ocular dimensions, including axial length, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, and vitreous chamber depth, were measured...

Precise regulation of MHC class II expression plays a crucial role in the control of the immune response. The transactivator CIITA behaves as a master controller of constitutive and inducible MHC class II gene activation, but its exact mechanism of action is not known. Activation of MHC class II promoters requires binding of at least three distinct multi-protein complexes (RFX, X2BP and NF-Y). ...

BACKGROUND Influenza immunization coverage among Canadian health care personnel remains below national targets. Targeting this group is of particular importance given their elevated risk of influenza infection, role in transmission and influence on patients' immunization status. We examined influenza immunization coverage in health care personnel in Canada, reasons for not being immunized and t...