I AM very honored to have this unique opportunity to honor Emery A. Rovenstine, M.D., D.Sc., and to offer my thoughts on anesthesiology and my dreams for its future. Dr. Rovenstine (Professor of Anesthesiology, New York University College of Medicine, New York, New York; 1895–1960) is well known as a leader who motivated outstanding young physicians and helped them develop into major contributo...

The present study aimed at determining the relationship between servant leadership as well as its dimensions and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) of employees at Valiasr Academic Complex (Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch). The research was applied, descriptive and correlational. Statistical population included 230 employees in first semester of educational year (2012- 20...

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la evidencia científica en el diseño y desarrollo propuestas con deportes alternativos alumnado Educación Secundaria. Se realizó una revisión sistemática que se consultaron las bases datos Dialnet, Pubmed, ScienceDirect Web of Science. Tras establecer los criterios elegibilidad, examinaron un total quince artículos trataron forma cualitativa. categorizar...

As scientists, we take our way of working for granted. We do not recognise how unusual it really is. But the public sees only the media’s interpretations, which evoke a completely false picture of the scientific process. As a consequence of misrepresentations and promises that apparently have not been kept, the public increasingly regards science as a competition for the sake of vanity or money...

Will people who are happy with their jobs exhibit superior job performance? Researchers have examined the “happy worker is a productive worker” postulation for decades and concluded the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance is not as strong as one would expect. The current research investigates possible explanations, including operationalizations of the satisfaction and perf...

The current study investigated commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) using the Rusbult’s (1980) Investment Model. It was hypothesized that the commitment would predict OCB and workplace behaviors and mediate the effects of satisfaction, investments, and alternatives on OCB. Participants completed online surveys that also included measures of conscientiousness and Meyer and Al...

Using a sample of 98 employees working in U.S., India, and China, the study shows that affective and normative commitment are positively related to transformational leadership. Normative commitment is higher in India-China combined than in the U.S. Transformational leadership is positively related to normative commitment in India and China but not in the U.S. and to affective commitment in the ...

In this article, we review some of the key attributes of useful theories and assess whether these attributes are present in several prominent Community Psychology theories. The field of Community Psychology often deals with complex systems and attempts to create change through the use of multiple mechanisms. It has provided researchers new ways of thinking about contextual factors and how parti...

The grooves and the ridges on the fingers, palms and the soles have aroused scientific interest for centuries. This field, known as dermatoglyphics, has a lot of applications in modern day population and medical research research. The present paper focuses on the different aspects of dermatoglyphics and also its applications. A brief account about the development of dermatoglyphic studies in In...

The following essay examines the roles of Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Watson, in the social construction of masculine norms in Arthur Conan Doyle‟s The Sign of Four. This novel includes a description of the courtship and marriage of Watson to Holmes‟s client, Mary Morstan—an act of masculine fulfillment that reinforces hegemonic patriarchal ideals of the time. The novel also supports pat...