CONTEXT Nursing is a stressful job that could create physical and psychological disorders. Many studies presented information on stress, effects of coping strategies, and job satisfaction of nurses within health setting. We aimed to identify and describe nursing stresses, coping strategies and job satisfaction of Iranian nurses who are working or worked in different wards. EVIDENCE ACQUISITIO...

Out-of-sample tests of forecast performance depend on how a given data set is split into estimation and evaluation periods, yet no guidance exists on how to choose the split point. Empirical forecast evaluation results can therefore be difficult to interpret, particularly when several values of the split point might have been considered. When the sample split is viewed as a choice variable, rat...

Today recruiters find their suitable human resources by searching in the job related web sites. In the same way, the job seekers also select their suitable jobs. The job seekers post their resumes in the multiple web sites. The HR tools available in the market make the job of recruiters easy by giving them the suitable resumes. Still, there is a good chance that the relevant documents may be mi...

Surgical reduction of donor livers to treat small children has been performed successfully in several centers. While this procedure improves the allocation of livers, it does not increase the organ supply. We have extended reduced-size orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) to treat 18 patients with 9 livers, accounting for 26% of our transplants during a 10-month period and have evaluated the ...

We present numerical analysis that campares the performances of PS, SRPT , and FB scheduling polcies in terms of their conditional mean response times in an M/G/1 model, where G represents an exponential job size distribution or a job size distribution with highly varying sizes such as heavy tailed distribution. The results show that for heavy tailed job size distribution, FB offers mean slowdo...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship of organizational commitment and job satisfaction with emotional intelligence of employees. the statistical population included all staff of physical education general dpeartment of lorestan province (n=50). due to the low sample size, the sample equaled the statistical population. to collect data,  the emotional intelligence questionnaire...

In this paper we suggest a strategy to design job scheduling systems. To this end, we first split a scheduling system into three components: Scheduling policy, objective function and scheduling algorithm. After discussing the relationship between those components we explain our strategy with the help of a simple example. The main focus of this example is the selection and the evaluation of seve...

In this paper we suggest a strategy to design job scheduling systems. To this end, we rst split a scheduling system into three components: Scheduling policy, objective function and scheduling algorithm. After discussing the relationship between those components we explain our strategy with the help of a simple example. The main focus of this example is the selection and the evaluation of severa...