In considering well-being among survivors of life-threatening illnesses such as breast cancer, 2 important questions are whether there is continuity between initial adjustment and longer term adjustment and what role personality plays in long-term adjustment. In this research, a sample of 163 early stage breast cancer patients whose psychosocial adjustment was first assessed during the year aft...

Background: Parents face several issues related to health and well-being in their everyday lives, which challenge their psychosocial resources. However, the topic of resource-enhancing family nursing at families’ homes remains little studied. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe the cooperative relationship between parents and a family nurse and to evaluate the benefits of resource-enhanci...

This research provides evidence for the generality of the Muhammad Ali effect (Allison, Messick, & Goethals, 1989), demonstrating that Dutch participants believe that the trait honesty is more descriptive of the self than of others, whereas the trait intelligence is believed to be equally descriptive of the self and others. Congruent with proposed explanations for the Muhammad Ali effect, parti...

We present the results of an experiment on learning in a continuous-time low-information setting. For a dominance solvable version of a Cournot oligopoly with differentiated products, we find little evidence of convergence to the Nash equilibrium. In an asynchronous setting, characterized by players updating their strategies at different frequencies, play tends toward the Stackelberg outcome wh...

Women entrepreneurship is the key to the economic development of any country. There is a great focus on developing women entrepreneurs in developing countries as this is realized to lead to employment creation and increasing the per capita income. Research indicates that successful women entrepreneurs are those who have benefitted from family support. This abstract is part of a several studies ...

Background: Since 2000, Iran has been delivering training and treatment services, including methadone therapy, to HIV positive patients through triangular clinics. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of these activities at the HIV Triangulation Centre in the city of Kerman, Iran, through clients’ views. Methods: Participants were recruited using a convenience sample and assessed throu...

in recent decades, due to increasing prices of fossil fuels and environmental pollution resulting from the increased energy demand, researches on renewable energy sources have attracted lots of researcher’s attention. limited investing sources and environmental issues are important factors effecting electricity generation sector. minimizing costs and environmental damages are issues being consi...

The recently recognized core construct of employee voice has been demonstrated to be related various outcomes. However, date, the impact over time and on important well-being rarely tested. In present research, we studied in particular how behavior is psychological well-being. Employing theory self-determination, developed three hypotheses pertinent this relationship, including mediating role a...

A convertible limited (multi-) verifier signature (CL(M)VS) provides controlled verifiability and preserves the privacy of the signer. Furthermore, limited verifier(s) can designate the signature to a third party or convert it into a publicly verifiable signature upon necessity. In this proposal, we first present a generic construction of convertible limited verifier signature (CLVS) into which...