introduction: nursing is among most stressful jobs and a common syndrome is job burnout in nurses caused by stress. enhancing coping capacity is an effective factor in dealing with stresses. thus it seems significant to study the effect of sense of humour on job burnout and nurses’ resiliency. objective: the present study was conducted to determie the relationship between severity of nurses’ bu...

In Europe and in America there is a growing recognition of the need for theory, research, and applied programs that contribute to both community and youth resiliency. This article seeks to build on previous theory and literature to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms for linking community and youth resiliency. Included is a review of youth development literature focu...

This article considers how humor may fit within a resiliency perspective. Following a brief overview of resiliency approaches, including selected work on positive psychology, several lines of research that provide initial support for resiliency effects of humor on stress and trauma are highlighted. This work ranges from anecdotal case report descriptions of facilitative humor use in extremely t...

We examine the resiliency of retail locations of a supply chain network to aid in the recovery of the local community after an extreme event. A two-stage stochastic programming model is used to determine the placement of permanent generators at the retail locations of Stewart’s Shops, which distributes both convenience items and fuel in Upstate New York and Vermont, to enhance the resiliency of...

We propose the role-and-relation-based access control (RBAC) model for workflow systems. In RBAC, in addition to auser’s role memberships, the user’s relationships with other users help determine whether the user is allowed to perform acertain step in a workflow. For example, a constraint may require that two steps must not be performed by users who havea conflict of interest. We al...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of morning and afternoon personality styles of the staff on an organization's psychological capital (optimism, resiliency, hope, and self-efficacy) based on fred luthans's model. we also assessed whether the relationship between personality type and psychological capital could affect the individual and organizational performance. m...

We investigate the problem of WS-BPEL processes resiliency in RBAC-WS-BPEL, an authorization model for WS-BPEL that supports the specification of authorizations for the execution of WS-BPEL process activities by roles and users and authorization constraints, such as separation and binding of duty. The goal of resiliency is to guarantee that even if some users becomes unavailable during the exec...

The constructs of intelligence and ego-resiliency are discussed. The personality implications of "pure intelligence" and "pure ego-resilience" were identified. Intelligence (IQ) was indexed by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and ego-resiliency by an inventory scale. Residual scores measuring "pure intelligence" and "pure ego-resilience" were correlated with the items of the observ...