Background: A cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the Gaza strip, Palestine.  Materials and methods: A 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the Gaza strip. Another 30-item questionnaire was completed by unive...

the main purpose of this research was to study the variables and factors that affect adaptation of university to external environment and to develop a model for assessment of tehran public universities adaptation to external environment. a mixed method research approach involving a three-round delphi study was used to record responses to the closed-questions and open-ended-questions. other data...

article history: received date: 13 september, 2016 review date: 2 october 2016 accepted date:20 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose: the present study was done to introduce an efficient tool in the field of moral behavior. material & method: method of the study was correlational, its approach was test developing and its population was students of islamic azad university- astara and...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of psychosocial and organizational factors relating to adherence to standard precautions for preventing exposure to biological material in hospitals. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 medical and nursing professionals at a university hospital in the municipality of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, in 2002. After selection by means of sim...

The aim of the current study was twofold: (1) to validate the internal structure of the general English (GE) section of the university entrance examination for Ph.D applicants into the English programs at state universities in Iran (Ph.D. UEE), and (2) to examine the factor structure invariance of the Ph.D. UEE across two proficiency levels. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyz...

HINDRIK MULDER,1,2 SAMUEL GEBRE-MEDHIN,3,4 CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ,4 FRANK SUNDLER,2 AND BO AHRÉN5 1Section for Molecular Signaling, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund; 2Section for Neuroendocrine Cell Biology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund; 3Section for Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Department of Physiological Scien...

Islam and Muslims have been in the headlines recently for one reason or another. But the practice of medicine in an Islamic conservative country such as Saudi Arabia has not been adequately reported. Many questions about cultural differences in the practice of medicine have been directed at me by non-Muslim colleagues. Below, I have tried to answer some of them after practising at a university ...