Introduction: Presence of conflict seems inevitable in organizations, especially in therapeutic and educational centers, considering the variety of personnel, patients, and their families' education and cultures. Nurse managers could effectively be involved in conflict management at these therapeutic and educational centers. This study aimed at assessing nurse managers' conflict management stra...

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Background and Aim: An important indicator of mental health is the emotional response that one exhibits to mental stress. The purpose of this study was to compare the level of mental health and emotional response in nurses of Sari Zare Psychiatry and Burn Center with other educational centers in Mazandaran province. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 304 nurses working in educ...

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) are one of the most interesting consequences of innovations in different areas of technology including wireless and mobile communications, networking, and sensor design. these networks are considered as a class of wireless networks which are constructed by a set of sensors. a large number of applications have been proposed for wsns. besides having numerous applic...