The present study sought to examine for how hope and sexual assault are involved in suicidal risk in a sample of 325 college students. Specifically, we were interested to examine whether sexual assault may play an additive as well as interactive role in the prediction of suicidal risk (viz., suicidal behaviors & reasons for living) above and beyond hope. Results from regression analyses indicat...

The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz, 1998) has become a widely used method of measuring individuals’ implicit preferences based on the speed of sorting words or images into respective categories in a computerized task. Age IATs have been used to ascertain implicit preference judgments towards young and old faces and to compare these ratings with explicit, self-re...

The consumer’s experience of self-customizing a product with a sales configurator can be a source of experience-related benefits for the consumer, above and beyond the traditionally considered utility of possessing a product that better fits his/her idiosyncratic needs. Although such experience-related benefits have been found by previous studies as increasing consumers’ willingness to pay for ...

‎In this work‎, ‎first the differential equation characterizing position vector‎ ‎of spacelike curve is obtained in Lorentzian plane $mathbb{L}^{2}.$ Then the‎ ‎special curves mentioned above are studied in Lorentzian plane $mathbb{L}%‎‎^{2}.$ Finally some characterizations of these special curves are given in‎ ‎$mathbb{L}^{2}.$‎

Objective This paper describes a project to promote a research culture amongst nurses in Malaysia. The project, funded by the Australian Government’s Australia Malaysia Institute, and implemented by a group of Australian nurse academics, provided a rare professional development opportunity to nurses in urban and remote areas of Malaysia. Setting The Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the rem...

women's rights alimony as preferred creditor is highlighted in iranian civil law. in other words women's right on maintenance is given priority over other debts, meaning the wife's claim takes priority over all other debts. it should be noted the above mentioned rights are considered in the first draft of family protection law and more privilege is given to women on this issue. i...

Background The location of the disposable material in a hemodialysis unit is essential to ensure the effectiveness of the circuits and to provide quality in nursing care. The law of the minimum effort may explain how the accessibility and distance of dressing trolleys can influence the consumption of some health care supplies [1,2]. It is necessary for health managers to look for effective stra...

The generalized fuzzy valued $theta$-Choquet integrals will beestablished for the given $mu$-integrable fuzzy valued functionson a general fuzzy measure space, and the convergence theorems ofthis kind of fuzzy valued integral are being discussed.Furthermore, the whole of integrals is regarded as a fuzzy valuedset function on measurable space, the double-null asymptoticadditivity and pseudo-doub...

These years the pattern of drug addiction among the youth has been changed a lot.  This study focuses on the pattern and the ways of drug uses among the youth in Isfahan and evaluates the practices for controlling and reducing them. It also studies the misuse of drugs in young addicted persons specially those who took part in anonymous group discussion. The sample includes 220 of above menti...