Context The focus of the study is on nursing leadership and its association to patient mortality. Cummings and colleagues state in the introduction that the relationship between nursing leadership styles in hospitals and patient outcomes has not been explored in many studies. The authors discuss the infl uence of different nursing leadership styles, such as taskand relationship-focused, emotion...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the multiple relationships between early maladaptive schemas, parenting styles and coping styles with anxiety. therefore, a sample consisting of 200 students, from islamic azad university of karaj, were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. the research instruments were beck anxiety inventory (1988), short form of young early ma...

software architecture is considered one of the most important indices of software engineering today. software architecture is a technical description of a system indicating its component structures and their relationships, and is the principles and rules governing designing. the success of the software depends on whether the system can satisfy the quality attributes. one of the most critical as...

the present paper deals with an introduction to literary schools and styles of the persian literature. the paper probes into the effect of these schools and styles on other literary schools so as to pave the way for further studies. the objective of the present paper is to inverstigate the process of formation of styles emerging in the present time . the paper will also take into concideration ...

In this paper we show how software architectural styles can be used to guide object-oriented design. Design guidance is important as the initial phases of software design signiicantly impact software quality. We use two diierent architectural styles to guide the design process from a formal speciication to a design. Software architectural styles assist by providing a diierent level of reuse tha...

One of the challenges in the development in blended learning is to facilitate the individual learning styles of the learners. The alignment of a learning styles assessment with a learning methodology, a mapping between learning styles and social media, recommendations in a guidebook for facilitators and a checklist provide a tool set for a sustainable approach for a responsive learning environm...

The Tropos project is developing concepts, tools and techniques for building agent-oriented software. This paper presents a quick overview of the project and then focuses on a specific problem: the identification of architectural styles for multi-agent systems (MAS). The proposed styles have been adopted from the literature on organization theory and strategic alliances. The styles are represen...

introduction: t his study aimed to investigate the male and female students’ learning styles of classroom participation and these styles’ differences between humanities and science majors. methods: 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratified random sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students in humanities (n=421) and science (n=618) faculties of tehran unive...