this study aimed at examining the effect of employees’ work motivation on organizational citizenship behaviors in sport and youth offices of chaharmahal-va-bakhtiari province. all employees (n=152) in these offices completed motivation sources inventory (barbuto et al., 2004), and their leaders evaluated their organizational citizenship behaviors by organizational citizenship behavior scale (po...

concentrations of eight metals namely, cr, mn, fe, co, ni, cu, zn and pb were examined in the surface sediments of discharge channels of six industries in lagos using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.these channels drain into the isolo canal which empties into the lagos lagoon and eventually into the atlantic ocean. this study was conducted to detect any contamination levels within the sediment...

Distributed generation (DG) sources are becoming more prominent in distribution systems due to the incremental demands for electrical energy. Locations and capacities of DG sources have great impacts on the system losses in a distribution network. This paper presents a study aimed for optimally determining the size and location of distributed generation units in distribution systems with differ...

We examined the association between community violence exposure and childhood asthma risk in a multilevel, multimethod, longitudinal study controlling for individual- and neighbourhood-level confounders and pathway variables. Analyses included 2,071 children aged 0-9 yrs at enrolment from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Multilevel logistic regression models estimated ...

Disparities in verbal ability, a major predictor of later life outcomes, have generated widespread debate, but few studies have been able to isolate neighborhood-level causes in a developmentally and ecologically appropriate way. This study presents longitudinal evidence from a large-scale study of >2,000 children ages 6-12 living in Chicago, along with their caretakers, who were followed where...

Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs; 10 M⊙) are thought to form as relics of Population III stars or from the runaway collapse of stars in young clusters; their number and very existence are uncertain. We ran N-body simulations of Galactic IMBHs, modeling them as a halo population distributed according to a Navarro, Frenk & White (NFW; 1996) or a more concentrated Diemand, Madau & Moore (DMM; ...

fuzzy logic has a high potential for managing the uncertainty sources associated with the medical expert systems. application of fuzzy inference model has been widely concentrated for managing uncertainties in computer based practices of medicine. this paper has proposed two fuzzy expert systems for prognosis of the heart disease based on: 1) mamdani inference model, and 2) sugeno inference mod...

Distributed generation (DG) sources are becoming more prominent in distribution systems due to the incremental demands for electrical energy. Locations and capacities of DG sources have great impacts on the system losses in a distribution network. This paper presents a study aimed for optimally determining the size and location of distributed generation units in distribution systems with differ...