Background: One of the conditions affecting mental health is working condition which should be considered more. Work-related stress can impair mental health. Firefighting because of exposure to hazardous agents and risky activities is a stressful and hard job. This research was conducted to investigate the relationship of type A personality and sensation seeking trait with gener...

Teachers have been teaching using traditional strategies and frameworks for generations. Faculty development is a planned activity aimed at improving the performance of departmental faculty members by focusing on improvement individual knowledge skills in relevant areas.1These include teaching, administrative, research, clinical skills.Continuous medical education praiseworthy path to keep educ...

In the light of increasing public mistrust, there is an urgent need to clarify the moral status of the medical profession and of the relationship of the clinician to his/her patients. In addressing this question, I first establish the coherence, within moral philosophy generally, of the concept of supererogation (the doing of more than one’s duty). I adopt the notion of an act of “unqualified” ...

W. J. Stewart McKay, M.B., M.Ch., B.Sc. Pp. xx.,. 651. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. 1905. On taking up this book the chief thought one has is that it is unduly lengthy, and inasmuch as the first 183 pages contain a great deal that can be found in any work on general surgery this seems to some extent unnecessary. The author's justification is partly to be found in the fact that he desires t...

Objective: Personality is the most important infrastructure factor in addiction, and substance abusers have certain personal weaknesses that make them vulnerable to addiction. This study examined the role of sensation-seeking and coping strategies in predicting drug addiction in high school students.  Methods: This study is a descriptive–correlational research. Multi-stage cluster sampling w...

Rent-seeking in the trade sector is an outcome of restrictions imposed on tariffs and import quotas by a government. In an effort to acquire more privilege in foreign trade, labor allocates a part of its time-effort to rent-seeking activity, while cutting down on production work. Given the importance of rent-seeking activity due to restrictions imposed by the government in the Iranian economy, ...