nursing management from retired nurses' perspective     nobahar m [1] , ahmadi f* [2] , alhani f [3] , fallahi khoshknab m [4]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : managers are one of the effective factors in improvement of the organizations efficacy, effectiveness, and productivity. nursing managers' efficacy has an important role in hea...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Relationships of Zn Between Centella Asiatica and Geochemical Fractions of the Habitat Topsoils: Implications of Biomonitoring of Zn Chee K. Yap, Hishamuddin Omar, Rosimah Nulit, Ghim H. Ong, Alireza R. Bakhtiari, Ali Karami and Salman A. Al-Shami Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Inti International Univ...

1. Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 2. Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, [email protected] Abstract An ideal fusion method preserves the spectral information in fused image without spatial distortion. The PCA is believ...

measles is one of the most contagious human diseases. although mass vaccination programs have reduced the incidence of this disease, measles is still an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries. therefore the use of sensitive techniques to evaluate vaccine efficacy and level of immunity among members of susceptible communities is crucial. serum neutraliz...

the purpose followed in this study was to investigate the attitude of the students of the higher level education institutions towards learning motivations. a descriptive-correlational method was chosen for the study. a number of 120 students were randomly selected as the study sample out of 1339 students and finally 112 questionnaires were collected. the instrument was assessed for face and con...

introduction: the present study was undertaken to produce alkaline phosphatase anti- alkaline phosphatase (apaap) complex and to use it in one of the most practical methods of determining the site of antigen in tissue or in cell, i.e. apaap technique, and its comparison with similar foreign products. materials and methods: in this basic and applied study the secreted antibodies of the two hybri...

introduction: gp63 is a major surface protease of leishmania promastigotes that plays an important role in its virulance. as gp63 on its own can not develop an effective protection against leishmaniasis, the goal of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of gp63 conjugated with tetanus toxoid (tt) and vitamin d3 in susceptible balb/c mice against cutaneous leishmaniasis. methods: this...

the relation between religiosity and electoral behavior as the major research question in this study has been reported by some researchers with paradoxical results. for a more profound understanding of the relationship between the two variables, religiosity was analyzed at two levels: scale and type; electoral behavior was also investigated at two levels: voting tendency and voting participatio...

an experiment was conducted to determine the effect of paclobutrazol (pbz) and different irrigation amount on growth of aerial parts, leaf minerals and root performance in young olive plants cv. ‘manzanillo’ in the department of horticulture, faculty of agriculture, tarbiat modarres university in 2000. a split plot experiment in time was used based on a completely randomized block design with f...