The presence of women in social and managerial fields is one the indicator of social justice and development that leads to optimum use of capabilities and potentials of half of the country's rural population. In the recent years, establishing public institution of Dehyary by the Ministry of Interior have provided new opportunity for women presence in rural management. This study aimed to identi...

Because of personal motives and the architecture of the mind, it may be difficult for people to know themselves. People often attempt to block out unwanted thoughts and feelings through conscious suppression and perhaps through unconscious repression, though whether such attempts are successful is controversial. A more common source of self-knowledge failure is the inaccessibility of much of th...

The personal leadership of the perioperative director is a critical factor in the success of any change management initiative. This article presents an approach to perioperative nursing leadership that addresses obstacles that prevent surgical departments from achieving high performance in clinical and financial outcomes. This leadership approach consists of specific insights, priorities, and t...

I thought long and hard whether I could avoid talking about family and personal life, and just share the excitement of being a scientist and how science continues to sustain us all. But so many people, especially younger scientists, want to know-and always ask-How did you do it? A woman from Iran, a Middle Eastern country and essentially Muslim, now considered backwards and misguided if not dow...

Background:High quality and supportive relationships is essential to develop healthy individuals in all aspects of life. This study deals with the marital instability frequency and its predisposing factors and predictors in a representative sample of Mashhad, Iran, in 2014. Methods:In a cross-sectional study, a total number of 583 couples participated. A checklist and the marital instability in...

having large storage capacities, and coming preloaded with various health applications that can used to track workouts, calories burned, weight, and environmental factors [6]. These personal computers are virtually always on and at hand and are capable of a variety of functions [7], making them widely available for everyday personal use or clinically-based interventions. Coupling these technolo...

We present demonstration-guided motion planning (DGMP), a new framework for planning motions for personal robots to perform household tasks. DGMP combines the strengths of sampling-based motion planning and robot learning from demonstrations to generate plans that (1) avoid novel obstacles in cluttered environments, and (2) learn and maintain critical aspects of the motion required to successfu...

It is proved that one can choose a control function on an arbitrarilly small open subset of the boundary of an obstacle so that the total radiation from this obstacle for a fixed direction of the incident plane wave and for a fixed wave number will be as small as one wishes. The obstacle is called “invisible” in this case.