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Effectiveness Of Marlatt's Cognitive-Behavioral Model On Increasing Self-Efficacyin Opiate-Dependents, Seyed Mohammad, Kalantarkousheh, دکتر سید محمد کلانتر کوشه

Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh

Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of Marlatt's cognitive-behavioral model on increasing self-efficacy in opiate-dependents. Materials & Methods: In a pilot project, 30 opiate-dependent clients of addiction clinics in Khorramabad were randomly assigned to study and control groups. The study group went through 12 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy; an overall 24 hours. The control group did not receive any special treatment. All the participants completed the self-efficacy questionnaire at the beginning and end of treatment. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze data. Results: Findings showed significant differences between the two groups after intervention. Conclusions: According to the findings …

The Role Of Spiritual Intelligence On Organizational Commitment In Employees Of Universities In Tehran Province, Iran, Seyed Mohammad, Kalantarkousheh, دکتر سید محمد کلانتر کوشه

Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh

Introduction: Spiritual intelligence is the mind’s capacity to handle substantial and spiritual aspects of life. According to previous studies, spiritual intelligence can be effective in the promotion of different variables. One such variable is organizational commitment. Organizational commitment may have potentially serious effects on an organization’s function and can be a major influence on its effectiveness. This study explores the relationship between spiritual intelligence and organizational commitment in staff of universities from Tehran Province, Iran. Methods: The study population included all staff of universities in Tehran Province during 2012-13. From this population we chose a random sample of 200 staff(111males …

Determining The Ratio Of The Islamic Lifestyle Components And Perfectionism Components In Predicting Marital Adjustment, Seyed Mohammad, Kalantarkousheh, دکتر سید محمد کلانتر کوشه

Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh

components and perfectionism components in predicting marital adjustment of high school teachers in Birjand. This is a correlation research in which a sample of Birjand high school teachers (including 150 men and 150 women) was selected based on random cluster sampling. Locke-Wallace marital adjustment test (LWMAT), Kaviani short form Islamic lifestyle test (ILST), Tehran multidimensional perfectionism scale (TMPS) are the questionnaires used in the study. Then the methods of descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and inferential statistical indices of multivariate regression are used. Results show that there is a positive significant relationship between Islamic lifestyle and marital adjustment …

The Relationship Between Religious Orientation And Paterson’S Work Performance Among Iranian Teachers, Seyed Mohammad, Kalantarkousheh, دکتر سید محمد کلانتر کوشه

Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh

This research aimed to examine the relationship between religious orientation and work performance of teachers employed in educational ministry schools in Tehran, Iran. This was a correlational research study conducted on teachers from the 9th district of the educational ministry in Tehran, Iran. In this research 150 female teachers were randomly selected. Data collection was performed through completion of the religious orientation questionnaire by Feagin (1963) and Paterson’s work performance questionnaire (1963). All data were analyzed with correlational coefficient and regression correlation. Findings showed that intrinsic religious orientation was a partial predictor of work performance. People with religious orientation had …

مجموعه تحلیلها و گفت وگوها با اقتصاددانان ایرانی خارج کشور در مورد بسته پیشنهادی دولت و بیماری هلندی, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

مجلد حاضر، مجموعه ای از تحلیلها و گفت وگوها با اقتصاددانان ایرانی خارج از کشور درباره بیماری هلندی و بسته پیشنهادی دولت برای خروج از رکود است. بخش اول مختص بیماری هلندی است که در خبرگزاری فارس و بخش دوم در مورد بسته پیشنهادی دولت در خبرگزاری تسنیم منتشر شده است. بخش سوم نیز مربوط به برخی مصاحبه های مفید است که در خبرگزاری تسنیم منتشر شده است. در مجموع حدود 32 مصاحبه و تحلیل در این مجموعه 120 صفحه ای قابل دسترس است.

Latent Psyche Concept, A Formula For Originating Ideas, Chuck Klein

Chuck Klein

Much has been written about people who are creative - those who produce ideas - but little about how they actually arrive at new concepts, theories or a different way of viewing old notions. The term, creativity, is easily defined, however, a technique for achieving this highly acclaimed attribute is not readily found.

Idea production, like any other manufacturing process, is subject to and dependent upon an identifiable pattern. It makes little difference whether the creator is writing a book, seeking a solution to a production line problem or looking to increase sales, the process of idea production is the …

Is This A Profession? Establishing Educational Criteria For Law Librarians, Elizabeth Caulfield

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

This article seeks to encourage discussion that will lead to the standardization of educational criteria for law librarians. The article recounts the history of the debate about educational standards for law librarians, discusses why some law librarians historically had law degrees, and proposes formal educational requirements for law librarians to facilitate the professionalization of law librarianship.

The Unc Law Library's Redaction Of Its Digitized Collection Of North Carolina Supreme Court Briefs: A Case Study, Nicole Downing

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

This study evaluates the digital redaction process as undertaken by the University of North Carolina Kathrine R. Everett Law Library as part of digitizing their collection of North Carolina Supreme Court briefs. New privacy concerns are raised by digitizing court documents and making them available online. Libraries have an interest in digitizing their print collections of court documents for public access on the Internet, but have received no clear guidance on how to proceed in the face of legal concerns. The purpose of this research is to inform libraries of the legal, ethical, and practical situation surrounding redaction of digitized …

My World 2015 And Mobiles, Linda Margaret Broughton

Linda Margaret Broughton

What role can mobile phones play in distributing a survey and collecting feedback and data from respondents? In particular, how can we use mobile technology to reach out to and engage individuals in developing countries that tend to be underrepresented in global surveys? In the recent My World 2015 survey launched in December 2012 in honor of the end of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the establishment of a new “post-2015” global development framework, the United Nations Development Program, the UN Millennium Campaign, the Overseas Development Institute, the ONE campaign, and over 700 on-the-ground grassroots organizations as well …

¿Aumenta O Disminuye La Clase Media, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Capitalismo Y Desigualdad, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Should Smaller Countries Be More Protectionist? The Diversification Motive For Tariffs, James Gaisford, Olena Ivus

Olena Ivus

This paper examines the diversification motive for tariffs under trade-related uncertainty when there is incomplete international and domestic risk sharing. In the context of a two-country Ricardian continuum-of-sectors model with shocks to foreign technologies or preferences, tariffs allow a country to mitigate external risk by diversifying across sectors. Given sufficiently high risk and risk aversion, the optimality of tariffs depends primarily on a country's ability to diversify, rather than its market power, such that small countries gain most.

Spurning This Worldly Life: Martyrdom Amongst British Jihadists, Akil N. Awan

Dr Akil N Awan

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A Reply To Mearsheimer, Anna Cornelia Beyer

Dr. Anna cornelia Beyer

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Emotional Responses To Honor Situations In Turkey And The U.S., Ayse K. Uskul, Susan Cross, Cansu Alozkan, Berna Gercek-Swing, Bilge Ataca, Zeynep Sunbay

Ayse K Uskul

The main goal of the current research is to investigate emotional reactions to situations that implicate honour in Turkish and northern American cultural groups. In Studies 1A and 1B, participants rated the degree to which a variety of events fit their prototypes for honour-related situations. Both Turkish and American participants evaluated situations generated by their co-nationals as most central to their prototypes of honour-related situations. Study 2 examined emotional responses to Turkish or US-generated situations that varied in centrality to the prototype. Highly central situations and Turkish-generated situations elicited stronger emotions than less central situations and US-generated situations. Americans reported …

Visualization For Increasing Health Intentions: Enhanced Effects Following A Health Message And When Using A First-Person Perspective, Laura Rennie, Ayse K. Uskul, Catherine Adams, Katherine Appleton

Ayse K Uskul

The present research explored whether visualising engaging in a health behaviour resulted in increased intentions to engage in that behaviour, when combined with an informational health message. Further, the effects of the visual perspective (first-person vs. third-person) used to visualise the health behaviour were explored. In an online questionnaire study employing a 2 × 3 between-participants experimental design, participants (N = 532) read vs. did not read an informational health message about the benefits of increasing fruit consumption, then visualised (from first-person vs. third-person perspective) vs. did not visualise themselves increasing their fruit consumption. Intentions to increase fruit consumption were …

Concerns About Losing Face Moderate The Effect Of Visual Perspective On Health-Related Intentions And Behaviors., Ayse K. Uskul, Mariko Kikutani

Ayse K Uskul

Visualizing oneself engaging in future actions has been shown to increase the likelihood of actually engaging in the visualized action. In three studies, we examined the effect of perspective taken to visualize a future action (first-person vs. third-person) as a function of the degree to which individuals worry about others' evaluation of themselves (face) and whether the visualized behavior is public or private. Across all studies, the effect of visual perspective was present only for participants with a high level of face. In this group, the third-person visualization induced stronger intentions to engage in the behavior when the imagined behavior …

Cultural Prototypes And Dimensions Of Honor, Susan Cross, Ayse K. Uskul, Berna Gercek-Swing, Zeynep Sunbay, Bilge Ataca, Zahide Karakitapoglu

Ayse K Uskul

Research evidence and theoretical accounts of honor point to differing definitions of the construct in differing cultural contexts. The current studies address the question “What is honor?” using a prototype approach in Turkey and the Northern United States. Studies 1a/1b revealed substantial differences in the specific features generated by members of the two groups, but Studies 2 and 3 revealed cultural similarities in the underlying dimensions of self-respect, moral behavior, and social status/respect. Ratings of the centrality and personal importance of these factors were similar across the two groups, but their association with other relevant constructs differed. The tripartite nature …

Responses To Social Exclusion In Cultural Context: Evidence From Farming And Herding Communities, Ayse K. Uskul, Harriet Over

Ayse K Uskul

In a series of studies, we investigated the role of economic structures (farming vs. herding) and source of ostracism (close other vs. stranger) in social exclusion experiences. We first confirmed that herders rely on strangers to a greater extent than do farmers for economic success (validation study). Next, we verified that farmers and herders understand the concept of ostracism, and its emotional consequences, in similar ways (Study 1). The studies that followed provided converging evidence that cultural group membership shapes sensitivity and responses to social exclusion. Using different methodologies, in Studies 2 and 3, we showed that, whereas the psychological …

Family Ties And Filial Piety Of Female China Migrant In Singapore, Amirah Bte Jamalludin Lee Ms.

Amirah bte Jamalludin Lee Ms.

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Litwerature Review For Cc6307, Anton Semenov

Anton Semenov

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Impact Of Globalization On Confucianism In Contemporary Chinese Society, Anton Semenov

Anton Semenov

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Political Trust In Extremis, Antonis A. Ellinas, Iasonas Lamprianou

Antonis A. Ellinas

The literature points out that political trust can have a major impact on democratic politics by affecting political participation, institutional effectiveness and policy choices. Given the significance of political trust for the functioning of democracy, it is important know how the way citizens relate with political actors and institutions changes in times of extraordinary shock. Using Greece as a case and data from successive rounds of the European Social Survey, this article shows that, during times of major distress, the way schools and hospitals are run – the “social” performance of government – has an important effect on political trust. …

Expecting The Unexpected: Field Research In Post-Disaster Settings, Anuradha Mukherji, Emel Ganapati, Guitele Rahill

Anuradha Mukherji

The purpose of this article was to examine field research after disasters by focusing on fieldwork challenges in post-disaster research settings. We describe and evaluate post-disaster fieldwork based on three separate research projects: A study of land use change adaptation strategies following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami; a study of long-term housing recovery following the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake in India; and a study of the role of social capital in shelter recovery following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. The main findings of this study deal with some of the unique set of challenges that accompanies fieldwork in post-disaster …

Oral Health Access And Service Utilization Of Foster Care Alumni, Ann Carrellas, Angelique G. Day

Angelique G Day

This mixed method study examines factors related to poor access to oral health care of young adults who have transitioned from foster care. Foster youth who left care without support were 4.7 times more likely and young women were 3.4 times more likely to have unmet dental needs. Interviews and focus groups supported the lack of oral health care many of these youth experience upon exiting foster care. Most states’ Medicaid programs do not provide comprehensive dental care for adults past the age of 20 and this is not changed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act of …

Ethnic Chinese Discrimination And Nationality, Amanda Walujono

Amanda Walujono

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Advantages Of Joining A Genealogy Society, James Gross

James Gross

Discussion of the many advantages gained by joining a genealogy society. One can share and learn useful research tips by engaging with one's peers. Genealogy meetings can be a way to socialize and network with fellow genealogists. Genealogy newsletters and meetings can be good sources of research and reference information.

The Use Of Citation Speed To Understand The Effects Of A Multi-Institutional Science Center, Jan Youtie

Jan Youtie

The extent to which an article attracts citations has long been of interest. However, recent research has emphasized not just the receipt but also the pacing of citation. Citation speed has been shown to be affected by journal prestige and self-citation but also public funding of research. Amidst these viewpoints, this paper explores the speed of article citation of a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary publicly funded research center relative to that of a comparison group of articles. Results indicate that articles by authors affiliated with the center are significantly more likely to have early-cited papers within the year of publication than the …

Social Dynamics Of Research Collaboration: Norms, Practices, And Ethical Issues In Determining Co-Authorship Rights., Jan Youtie, Barry Bozeman

Jan Youtie

Co-authorship has become common practice in most science and engineering disciplines and, with the growth of co-authoring, has come a fragmentation of norms and practices, some of them discipline-based, some institution-based. It becomes increasingly important to understand these practices, in part to reduce the likelihood of misunderstanding in collaborations among authors from different disciplines and fields. Moreover, there is also evidence of widespread satisfaction with collaborative and co-authoring experiences. In some cases the dissatisfactions are more in the realm of bruised feelings and miscommunication but in others there is clear exploitation and even legal disputes about, for example, intellectual property. …

Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance, Luciano Kay, Nils Newman, Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter, Ismael Rafols

Jan Youtie

This paper presents a new global patent map that represents all technological categories and a method to locate patent data of individual organizations and technological fields on the global map. This overlay map technique may support competitive intelligence and policy decision making. The global patent map is based on similarities in citing-to-cited relationships between categories of the International Patent Classification (IPC) of European Patent Office (EPO) patents from 2000 to 2006. This patent data set, extracted from the PATSTAT database, includes 760,000 patent records in 466 IPC-based categories. We compare the global patent maps derived from this categorization to related …