Quality of life in cities can be improved through reshaping and advancing urban spaces with seamless persuasive and socially influencing strategies for empowering people to succeed in achieving better lifestyles. This vision aims at helping people to acquire healthy and resource-efficient everyday routines, thus leading to prosperous and sustainable societies. Urban engineers and technology dev...

The arrival of LATEX2ε at SEP enhanced our LATEX typesetting system and led us to improve SEP’s customized enhancements. The revised system enables us to use the script latex2html (Drakos, 1996) to publish our documents routinely on the Internet. Additionally, we improved the communication between a document’s makefile and its corresponding LATEX file. Finally, we replaced a gigantic c-shell sc...

User support systems have evolved in the last years as specialized tools to assist users in a plethora of computer-mediated tasks by providing guidelines or hints [19]. Recommender systems are a special class of user support tools that act in cooperation with users, complementing their abilities and augmenting their performance by offering proactive or on-demand, context-sensitive support. Reco...

Nurse burnout is a widespread phenomenon characterized by a reduction in nurses' energy that manifests in emotional exhaustion, lack of motivation, and feelings of frustration and may lead to reductions in work efficacy. This study was conducted to assess the level of burnout among Jordanian nurses and to investigate the influence of leader empowering behaviors (LEBs) on nurses' feelings of bur...

Introduction. The purpose of this research is to investigate the significance of public libraries as educational institutions. The meaning of lifelong learning in public libraries from the perspective of women's autonomous activities is re-examined. Method. The literature of the grassroots library movement and that of the empowerment of women is analysed within the framework of critical theory....

We present the design of an online environment that provides mechanisms for the exploitation of school ICT infrastructure by empowering teachers to discover and comment on educational activities that can be implemented in their schools.

Empowering women and promoting gender equality has always been the major priorities throughout the globe. However Pakistani women still living in quagmire of centuries old patriarchal system and traditions which barricade their socio-economic and political empowerment. The present study examine the perceptions of local women and working staff and measured the impact of Local Supportive Organiza...

Introduction: In-service training of nurses plays an indispensablerole in improving the quality of inpatient care. Need to enhancethe effectiveness of in-service training of nurses is an inevitablerequirement. This study attempted to design a new optimal modelfor in-service training of nurses.Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in two stagesduring 2015-2016. In the first stage, the Gr...