introduction: in-service training of nurses plays an indispensable role in improving the quality of inpatient care. need to enhance the effectiveness of in-service training of nurses is an inevitable requirement. this study attempted to design a new optimal model for in-service training of nurses. methods: this qualitative study was conducted in two stages during 2015-2016. in the first stage, ...

the purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal responses of pulmonary volumes and capacities to serum cortisol in young wrestlers. for this purpose, 24 healthy young wrestlers (age 23.9±0.8 years, height 180.64±0.7 cm, weight 76.3±7.3 kg, bmi 23.4±8.5) volunteered to participate in this study. the subjects performed an incremental wrestling training up to 85% of mhr of the training, ...

in this descriptive cross-sectional study 14 national basketball team players attending the preparatory camp for the asian games with mean age of 25. 6 ± 3.1 yrs, height of 191 ± 6 em,w eight of87.3 ±8 .1 kg and bmi of 23.9 ±1.7 were surveyed. the subjects underwent anthropometlic, aerobic power, body fat content and v02max measurements in three stages of the training period (before training, d...

background: in every organization, productivity is considerably related with organizational knowledge, experience, creativity, and skills. therefore, an organization must develop training programs to extract and supply individual, occupational, and organizational needs. this case study described the management performance promotion plan in the iranian ministry of health and medical education (m...

Working memory (WM) training has recently become a topic of intense interest and controversy. Although several recent studies have reported near- and far-transfer effects as a result of training WM-related skills, others have failed to show far transfer, suggesting that generalization effects are elusive. Also, many of the earlier intervention attempts have been criticized on methodological gro...

Can neuroimaging methods offer any benefit to communication scholars? Although communication scholars draw on multiple, interdisciplinary methods, the field has not traditionally leveraged neuroimaging techniques (Cappella, 1996). By contrast, other social science disciplines have benefitted greatly from the use of neuroscience methodologies to test core theoretical questions (Adolphs, 2003; Ca...

Motivational concepts have been central to systematic psychological, behavioral, and social psychological theories over the past century (Berridge, 2004; Cofer & Appley, 1964; Higgins, 1997). Motivational theories have been highly diverse in their nature and focus, but for the most part they have been developed largely from psychological or behavioral data and concepts. This is true even for ho...