background and purpose: delirium is a clinical syndrome with cognitive disorder, which occurs within a short time in the admitted patients, specially the elderly. regarding the fact that one third of the delirium incidences is preventable, applying nursing preventive measures is an issue of fundamental importance. the present study aimed to perform a systematic review over the nursing preventiv...

During recent years, the natural environment has become a challenging topic that business organizations must consider due to the economic and ecological impacts and increasing awareness of environment protection among society. Organizations are trying to achieve the goals of improvement in environment, low cost, high quality, flexibility and more customer satisfaction. Performance measurement f...

We prove that, for every α > −1, the pull-back measure φ(Aα) of the measure dAα(z) = (α+1)(1− |z| ) dA(z), where A is the normalized area measure on the unit disk D, by every analytic self-map φ : D → D is not only an (α + 2)-Carleson measure, but that the measure of the Carleson windows of size εh is controlled by ε times the measure of the corresponding window of size h. This means that the p...

Interest in the role of personality traits in predicting academic performance outcomes has steadily increased over the last several decades, enough to produce a number of meta-analyses that summarize this research (e.g., Poropat, 2009; Richardson, Abraham, & Bond, 2012). These previous meta-analyses combine a variety of alternative personality measures under the assumption that they all reflect...

Previous narrative reviews of the relation between antisocial behavior (ASB) and neuropsychological tests of executive functioning (EF) have raised numerous methodological concerns and produced equivocal conclusions. By using meta-analytic procedures, this study attempts to remedy many of these concerns and quantifies the relation between ASB and performance on six reasonably well validated mea...

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) VIth Conference of the Parties (COP) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development agreed to a target to achieve a significant reduction of the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. The VIIth COP adopted a conceptual framework to facilitate the assessment of global progress toward 2010 and to encourage national and regional targets and indicators. H...

We prove in a direct fashion that a multidimensional probability measure μ is determinate if the higher dimensional analogue of Carleman’s condition is satisfied. In that case, the polynomials, as well as certain proper subspaces of the trigonometric functions, are dense in all associated Lp-spaces for 1 ≤ p < ∞. In particular these three statements hold if the reciprocal of a quasi-analytic we...

We establish a Feynman-Kac-type formula to define fractional Schrödinger operators for (fractional) Kato-class potentials as self-adjoint operators. In this functional integral representation symmetric α-stable processes appear instead of Brownian motion. We derive asymptotic decay estimates on the ground state for potentials growing at infinity. We prove intrinsic ultracontractivity of the Fey...