The web has become the primary source of medical information for consumers and health professionals. It is quite common for people to “Google” for information related to a medical topic. But the problem remains that as the number of documents increases on the web, the difficulty in quickly locating the best documents increases. Classifying results into meaningful categories, helps guide users t...

The main purpose of this study was to figure out employees’ attitudes toward the new performance appraisal program and to examine whether three different types of appraisal processes differentially affected job satisfaction and employee engagement. The second purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance appraisal reform, job satisfaction, and employee engagement...

In 2015, it has been 6 years since the Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Since the start, it has been a bimonthly printed journal, and our journal has been making satisfactory progress. However, we decided that our journal become an Open Access journal from last year, 2014, as previously announ...

Aspect-oriented techniques have gained some favor in program tracing, profiling, and debugging. Yet, taking advantage of AOP typically requires giving up the traditional benefits of using a debugger, such as interactive exploratory introspection and remote execution. However, the APIs debuggers present to their scripting languages are not designed for aspect weaving, creating technical challeng...

BACKGROUND Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-known and valid self-report tool that has been widely used in various studies to identify and avoid early retirement and work-related disability. Nevertheless, very few studies have been carried out to evaluate work ability in Iran. We aimed to investigate the WAI and the effect of work-related stress on it among Iranian workers. METHODS A cross-s...

As the Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD) in 2010, it will enter its 7th year of publication in 2016. It has also been almost 2 years since our journal became an Open Access journal in 2014. As the background of our shift to an Open Access journal was mentioned in my previous Editorial in JDI in ...

The purposes of this study were to examine job stress among medical-surgical and home care nurses, and determine if high job stress predicted general well-being. A comparative, descriptive design was used. Findings support the need to examine workplace stressors and implement strategies to reduce overall job stress among medical-surgical nurses.

Background: It is important to determine the relationship between quality of sleep, which basic requirement, and job satisfaction, has an place in working life nurses. The aim this study examine sleep satisfaction nurses pediatric surgery clinic during COVID-19 pandemic. Material Methods:This descriptive type. sample consists 94 who are members Association Pediatric Surgery Nurses. Nurse Descri...

PURPOSE To investigate (a) the effect of job-related stress on job performance among hospital nurses, and (b) the effect of social support from coworkers on the stress-performance relationship. DESIGN A correlational descriptive survey was used to investigate these relationships among a convenience sample of 263 American hospital nurses and 40 non-American nurses who were accessible via the I...

Background and objective: Nursing is an extremely stressful job and nurses face a variety of personal, organizational and communicational stresses which negatively affect their health and their job satisfaction. Accordingly, the present study was done to determine the level of job stress among nurses in intensive care units. Methods: In this analytical descriptive and cross sectional study, 175...