Organizations are increasingly relying on employees to self-manage their learning needs. Therefore, it is important for individuals to accurately assess their IT knowledge because accurate self-assessment is critical to effective self-management. Metacognition represents individuals' self-monitoring and self-regulating abilities, and plays a key role in self-managed learning. This study examine...

In 2010, as part of a rulemaking on efficiency standards, the U.S. government published its first estimates of the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions, referred to as the social cost of carbon (SCC). Using three climate economic models, an interagency task force concluded that regulatory impact analyses should use a central value of $21 per metric ton of CO2 for the monetized benefits of emissio...

introduction: increasing volume of information in various sciences, such as medicine, has led to the use of various strategies to effectively provide students, researchers, and teachers with medical and paramedical information. the iranian ministry of health and medical education has developed an online digital library, called iranian national medical digital library (inmdl), which provides acc...

Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterized by recurrent binge eating and marked distress in the absence of inappropriate compensatory behaviors for weight control. BED is prevalent in men and women, is associated with elevated psychosocial and functional impairment, and is associated strongly with obesity and related medical comorbidities. The aim is to provide a brief, state-of-the-art revie...

OBJECTIVE Study findings suggest that refugees are more vulnerable than the general population to mental disorders from disasters. This pilot study explored the nature of Vietnamese refugees' resilience to a potential natural disaster as a first step toward improving their disaster mental health. METHODS Interviews were conducted with 20 ethnic Vietnamese and Montagnard adult refugees using a...

Wise management of natural resources has become a fundamental challenge nowadays. Cooperative approaches are needed in order to provide a sustainable framework for stimulating the individual awareness and participation towards common environmental objectives. In order to reach mutually beneficial outcomes, public administrations, companies, individuals and communities will need to organize for ...

evaluating the investment that healthcare organisations make in quality improvement requires knowledge of impact at multiple levels, including patient care, workforce and other organisational resources. the degree to which these resources help organisations to survive and thrive in the challenging contexts in which healthcare is designed and delivered is unknown. investigating this question fro...