General and Professional Characteristics of Iranian High School Administrators H. Abdollaahi, Ph.D. The Iranian High Council on Education has identified certain characteristics for high school administrators in order to ensure the quality of running such places of learning. However, the extent to which the current administrators possess these characteristics is a matter of research re...

Undergraduate adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs; N = 57) were compared to children of nonalcoholic parents (CONAs; N = 100) on measures of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), self-esteem, and attributional style. ACOA status was determined using the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (Jones, 1981). ACOAs were found to have significantly higher scores on the BDI and to have significantly l...

A multivariate investigation and comparison of the coping strategies used in dealing with stress and psycho-social factors among school administrators is the purpose of the current study. Personal and environmental independent variables were studied across 13 dependent variables. The participants were 214 school administrators who voluntarily responded to the Turkish version of the Coping Strat...

OBJECTIVE Assisted living (AL) residents are vulnerable to adverse events as a result of using numerous medications and frequently need assistance in administering medications. Very little is known, however, about the ways in which medications are managed within this level of care. DESIGN AL administrators from the metropolitan Baltimore, Maryland area were invited to participate in focus gro...

Traditional database administrator (DBA) privileges are too high, which causes insider security threat problem. To solve this problem, an extended Role Based Access Control (RBAC) rights management model for DBA was brought out in this paper. Combined with the principle of least privilege security, this paper proposes a scheme which contains three management roles separation and dynamic constra...

MANILA, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos took an early lead over challenger Corazon Aquino yesterday in the official canvass by the National Assembly of last w eek’s presidential election. In a brief television appearance, Marcos pledged to "honor, w ithout reservations, the people's verdict at the polls and to ex tend our hand in conciliation to those w ho have co n ­ tested the election...

background the association between quality of work life and participation in knowledge management is unknown. objectives this study aimed to discover the association between quality of work life of nurse managers and their participation in implementing knowledge management. materials and methods this was a correlational study. all nurse managers (71 people) from 11 hospitals affiliated with the...

introduction: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the performance of the hospitals’ managers affiliated to medical university of isfahan by data envelopment analysis (dea) method. also since some attributes of performance are qualitative, analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method was used also to quantify the data. methods: this research was practical in purpose and descriptive-analyti...