a bstract background: nurses are at risk for symptoms of compassion fatigue (cf) and burnout (bo). social support plays an important role in predicting cf and bo. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of cf and bo and the role of perceived social support in predicting these symptoms in iranian nurses. materials and methods: using a correlational descriptive survey...

This study explored corrective feedback (CF) types and their relationship to L2 learners’ intelligence types. Participants were 60 intermediate L2 learners aged 18-29 in Isfahan, Iran. Based on their intelligence types as intrapersonal and interpersonal, the participants were divided into 2 groups. McKenzie’s MI Inventory (1999) and a researcher-designed questionnaire on CF types were employed....

Most of the traditional recommendation algorithms are based on TF-IDF, a term-based weighting method. This paper proposes a new method for recommending news items based on the weighting of the occurrences of references to concepts, which we call Concept Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (CFIDF). In an experimental setup we apply CF-IDF to a set of newswires in which we detect 1, 167 instance...

cystic fibrosis (cf) is an inherited disease that primarily affects the lungs and the digestive system, however, it also affects a number of other organs and systems. more than 90% of mortality of  cf patients is due to lung complications.  healthy lungs are important for a long life for people with cf, we will discuss two important topics for maintaining respiratory health. chronic use of drug...