BACKGROUND Social cognition is consistently impaired in people with schizophrenia, separable from general neurocognition, predictive of real-world functioning and amenable to psychosocial treatment. Few studies have empirically examined its underlying factor structure. AIMS This study (1) examines the factor structure of social cognition in both a sample of individuals with schizophrenia-spec...

Background: Social stress is a factor involved in the etiology of many diseases. Also, gender is another factor which predisposes individuals to certain disease. Results from animal and human studies suggest that socially-stressed men are more vulnerable to catching diseases compared to socially-stressed women. Materials and Methods: The role of chronic social stress and gender were examined in...

Social cognitive impairments are common, detectable across a wide range of tasks, and appear to play a key role in explaining poor outcome in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. However, little is known about the underlying factor structure of social cognition in people with psychotic disorders due to a lack of exploratory factor analyses using a relatively comprehensive social cogni...

The explanation of structures observed in nature, like the leaf, has long been the goal of mathematicians. Growing life forms from first principles is a computing task outside the realm of supercomputers and will remain so into the foreseeable future. However, it is still possible to model them by incorporating what we understand of the principles that guide their formation. This paper builds o...

The purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in Khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, Iran. This is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. The population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of Khuzestan, Iran(N=315). One hundred and seventy five people wer...