background nursing teachers have difficulties fulfilling multiple roles expectations and balancing the various dimensions of their roles that may lead to role strain. in order to lack of culturally and academically proper scale in iran to measure role strain in nursing teachers, localizing a foreign scale in this field is necessary. objectives the objective of this study was psychometric evalua...

For the first time in history, it is possible to study human behavior on great scale and in fine detail simultaneously. Online services and ubiquitous computational devices, such as smartphones and modern cars, record our everyday activity. The resulting Big Data offers unprecedented opportunities for tracking and analyzing behavior. This paper hypothesizes the applicability and impact of Big D...

As artificial intelligence approaches the human level, the task of designing cognitive tests and challenges for robots becomes critical for clarifying and reproducing elements of the “magic” of human cognition. In solving this task, the store of knowledge of experimental psychology cannot be ignored. At the same time, methods and test paradigms used for evaluation of humans and/or brain models ...

introduction: methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (ps) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. evaluation of iranian literature on emergency department’s ps resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. the present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure ps in emergency dep...

objective: this study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of sociocultural attitude towards appearance questionnaire in female adolescents. method: this was a methodological study. the english version of the questionnaire was translated into persian, using forward-backward method. then the face validity, content validity and reliability were checked. to ensure face validity, the ques...