the aim of the present study was to examine psychometric properties of the schema questionnaire, including reliability and validity in a sample of university students (n=387). the original version of the schema questionnaire was made for measuring the early maladaptive schemas by young adults. it is assumed that early maladaptive schemas may lead to psychological disorders. the factor analysis ...

In order to evaluate turnover and retention in the Information Technology (IT) Work Force (ITWF) we developed a tailor made questionnaire that addresses specific job and organizational design factors of importance to IT workers. Early analyses show the questionnaire to be reliable and valid. However, because some companies complained about the length of the questionnaire, we decided to develop ...

today, a correct understanding and skills necessary to reform affairs as well as a culture based on knowledge and continuous learning in the organizations are important elements in the management of sports organizations. so the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between triple management skills (conceptual, humanistic, technical) and organizational learning in managers of physi...

–Supply Chain Management emerged as one of the most powerful business improvement tool available today. A number of SCM practices such as supplier, customer, ERP, subcontracting, E-procurement, EDI, E-commerce have been addressed in Indian manufacturing industries and a conceptual model was formulated based on previous literature and a questionnaire developed, survey was performed. This paper e...

Originally puzzles were not for recreation, but serious questions you might be killed if you couldn’t solve them. But in modern times, puzzles had become a sort of recreation, decreasing the seriousness and religiousness gradually. Now, the ‘rule creators’ of puzzles began to attract notice. I, as a rule creator, published a book, Kyoto University Student, Higashida’s Puzzles. I’ll show several...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that the tumor suppressor gene, PTEN, which is inactivated in many malignant tumors, plays an important role in apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, cell migration, and cell spread. For cancer gene therapy, one of the most important problems is low gene transfection efficiency. METHODS In the present study, to take full advantage of adenovirus in gene expression, we p...

The objective was to translate into French the American questionnaire "Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture" and to test the feasibility of its use in a sample of nursing homes. The questionnaire was translated by a multidisciplinary group of six experts and tested on a sample of people working in nursing homes. The questionnaire was then administered in five nursing homes. A first ver...