machine can be interpreted together as representing a list of items. (Maier and Hovy, 1991) The next class of relations are referred to as interpersonal relations. Each relation in this class has its own specific effect on the reader. For example, to convince or motivate the reader to do something. They are, therefore, similar to Mann and Thompson’s (Mann and Thompson, 1988) presentational rela...

I have been asked to respond to the comments of three of the most important Brazilian critical thinkers with regard to my short essay about cyber determination. In the first place, I am deeply thankful to the journal Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia for providing its valuable platform to publish this enriching dialogue raised by the commentaries. Secondly, I must also thank my commentators f...

Legal, procedural, and institutional restrictions on safe abortion services-such as laws forbidding the practice or policies preventing donors from supporting groups who provide legal services-remain a major access barrier for women worldwide. However, even when abortion services are legal, women face social and cultural barriers to accessing safe abortion services and preventing unwanted pregn...

Literature in organizational justice suggest that organizational fairness in decision making processes may encourage employees’ acceptance of and positive reaction to many organizational decisions including decision in human resource interventions such as performance appraisal system. This study seeks to understand how perceived fairness in the performance appraisal process affects employees’ s...

Unfortunately, many individuals will be exposed to traumatic events during their lifetime. The experience of loss and gain of valued resources may represent important predictors of psychological distress following these experiences. The current study examined the extent to which loss and gain of interpersonal and intrapersonal resources (e.g., hope, intimacy) predicted psychological distress am...

Building on conservation of resources theory, we cast resource depletion as a novel explanatory mechanism to explain why employees' experience of psychological contract violation results in harm to third parties outside the employee-organization exchange dyad. This resource-based perspective extends and complements the dominant social exchange perspective which views employee reactions to psych...

background: the worldwide nursing shortage is threatening the quality of healthcare. the two most common causes in maintaining nurses are job satisfaction, a positive working environment, and good relationships among staff. this study aimed to determine the effect of interpersonal communication skills training on job satisfaction among the nurses working in al-zahra hospital affiliated to isfah...