In the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Existing studies fail to explain the changes well. Also, they do not reveal the policies behind the changes, nor the important role of governmental quality in shaping welfare reform. In this study, I use cross-sectional models based on states, measure welfare reform policies directly using program data, and rela...

nursing tacit knowledge is a knowledge that is produced inside the mind of nurses and not saved in any databases. the main challenge of nursing knowledge management is transferring tacit knowledge inside the mind of nurses to the others – especially scholars and researchers. this study evaluates personal, organizational, and technological factors affecting the tacit knowledge transfer among nur...

Nowadays, in competitive environment, a fundamental factor that helps governmental and non-governmental organizations to achieve their goals is attention to efficiency and its continuous improvement, which is only possible through continuous Efficiency Evaluation. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a suitable method for Efficiency Evaluation in organizations. But one limitation of this method i...

The purpose of this article is to test whether the use of public participation by a local government increases perceptions of procedural fairness among the public and to propose an explanation for why fairness is a strong predictor of satisfaction with governmental decisions. To do this, we draw on the uncertainty management model to hypothesize that indications of procedural fairness can incre...

background to assess maternal confidence in her ability to cope with labor, a measure of childbirth self efficacy is necessary. objectives this paper aims to assess the cultural adaptation and psychometric testing of the short form of childbirth self-efficacy inventory among iranian pregnant women. patients and methods in this descriptive-methodological study, we investigated 383 iranian pregna...