background and objective: today is the world of organizations, and to improve their performance, productivity and effectiveness, the competent and committed employees are required. several variables including managerial and organizational factors can affect organizational commitment. hence, we aimed to correlate between demographic variables and organizational commitment of the nurses. material...

background self immolation is a heinous way to commit suicide which is mostly prevalent in individuals who attempt to escape a stressful situation and is considered as a strange and unusual method. objectives this study examined demographic characteristics and mental health in self immolation attempters in the city of bandar abbas. materials and methods two groups are involved in this enquiry. ...

Effective disaster management is a core feature for the protection of communities against natural disasters such as floods. Disaster management organizations (DMOs) are expected to contribute to ensuring this protection. However, what happens when their resources to cope with a flood are at stake or the intensity and frequency of the event exceeds their capacities? Many cities in the Free State...

Execution parallelism in agent-Based Simulation (ABS) allows to deal with complex/large-scale models. This raises the need for runtime environments able to fully exploit hardware parallelism, while jointly offering ABS-suited programming abstractions. In this paper, we target last-generation Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) platforms for multicore systems. We discuss a programming mode...

plant extracts, like phytoecdysteroids, are currently studied because of the possibility of their use in plant protection. phytoecdysteroids are insect steroid hormone analogues, and they are believed to deter invertebrates from plants, either by acting as antifeedants or by being toxic through hormonal disruption on ingestion. we describe here the effects of extract from spinacia oleracea l. (...

conclusions this study showed that some properties of antimicrobial substances produced by the ga strain differed from other peptide antibiotics produced by the genus bacillus such as bacitracin, which increases the likelihood of its novelty. results the isolated bacterium was identified as a new strain of bacillus atrophaeus. the antimicrobial substance exhibited heat stability between 25ºc an...

metronidazole, a synthetic derivative of the nitroimidazole class is a known antibacterial and antiprotozoal agent. the hypolipidemic effect of metronidazole was not known. the authors noticed it incidentally for the first time. after quazi experimental studies on several cases, it was revealed that 750 mg of metronidazole for 10 days significantly decreased serum cholesterol. this trial was pe...