this research has tried to find most proper leadership styles based on a approved model to direct hospital manpower appropriately. the main objective of this research was the comparison between manager’s existing leadership styles and suggested styles to them in order to direct existing styles toward suggested ones. in this cross- sectional study all qom province hospital managers participated....

the different model specifications have been proposed to estimate time-varying technical efficiency in the last two decades. these models have resulted different efficiency scores based on their built-in specifications. this study investigates the temporal pattern of technical efficiency based on cornwell, sickles, and schmidt (css, 1990) as well as lee and schmidt (ls, 1993) models. in order t...

In a study of articles published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Gunther Eysenbach discovered a significant citation advantage for those articles made freely-available upon publication (Eysenbach 2006). While the author attempted to control for confounding factors that may have explained the citation differential, the study was unable to control for characteristics of th...

‎for any group $g$‎, ‎we define an equivalence relation $thicksim$ as below‎: ‎[forall g‎, ‎h in g gthicksim h longleftrightarrow |g|=|h|]‎ ‎the set of sizes of equivalence classes with respect to this relation is called the same-order type of $g$ and denote by $alpha{(g)}$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we give a partial answer to a conjecture raised by shen‎. ‎in fact‎, ‎we show that if $g$ is a nilpote...

Introduction We have all heard the old joke of school being all about the three “R’s”, Reading ‘Ritin and ‘Rithmatik, but because of increasing class sizes and reported lack of instruction time, writing has been passed over for the more “important” subjects. The advent of computers and the increasing ease of word processing have given teachers the ultimate excuse, but most beginning composition...