the mechanism of public-private partnership (ppp) has been used in different countries. many countries have enacted special laws to regulate ppps. in iran, ppp as such has been briefly mentioned in the fifth five year development act and more details of ppps were provided in the yearly budget acts of 1391 and 1392 (2012 and 2013). in the budget act of 1393 (2014) the detailed provisions regardi...

Background: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Guided Imagery (GI) on Emotional Regulation (ER) in patients with cardiovascular diseases referred to the cardiac rehabilitation department. Materials and Methods: This study was an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design, a 45-day follow-up. Using the purposive sampling me...

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Western scholars implicitly assume that the correlates of fear of crime discovered in the extant literature are also applicable to populations of different culture and ethnic backgrounds. The current study investigates whether such an assumption is valid, drawing on survey data of Chinese immigrants in Houston. Among other findings, this study reveals that the effect of age on fear of crime is ...