I certify that this thesis does not incorporate, without acknowledgement, any material submitted for a degree or diploma at any university, and that, to the best of my knowledge, it does not contain any material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in the text. The research and writing embodied in this thesis are my own, except for the contributio...

this paper is an attempt to study information seeking behaviors of graduate students in birjand and ferdowsi universities based on kuhlthau model of information search process. the population consists of graduate students in birjand and ferdowsi universities whose proposals were approved by graduate study councils of mentioned universities up to the end of first semester of 2008-2009 academic y...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate risk factors associated with persistent or recurrent upper extremity and neck pain among engineering graduate students. METHODS A random sample of 206 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) graduate students at a large public university completed an online questionnaire. RESULTS Approximately 60% of respondents reported u...

BACKGROUND Research assistants (RAs) are hired at academic centers to staff the research and quality improvement projects that advance evidence-based medical practice. Considered a transient population, these young professionals may view their positions as stepping-stones along their path to graduate programs in medicine or public health. OBJECTIVE To address the needs of these future health ...

Petroleum products are very flammable and can ignite at extremely low temperatures if exposed to an open flame source or not handled appropriately. Individuals who handle petroleum in the industry fuelling stations known as "petrol station attendants". The study was a descriptive cross-sectional carried out among petrol attendants working filling owned by independent marketers Sapele ...

T he quotation above is a considerable understatement for all of those graduate students and postdoctoral researchers whose hopes for scientific glory, or at least a diploma, were resting on a phenotype resulting from the ablation of their gene of interest. The source of this consternation is functional redundancy, and paralogous gene families are at least one source of such redundancy. The per...

in today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee...