Background and Objectives: Manual handling of disabled patients is one of the important and effective factors in acute low back pain among exposed nurses.The present study was conducted with the objective of quantitative risk assessment of patient manual handling among nurses in wards of one of the hospitals in Tehran using MAPO method.Methods: The
Semiotic analysis of delusion
Delusion is the most difficult problem in psychopathology.In the existing definitions of delusion there is no clear indication of the discriminant that enables us to reliably distinguish it from other psychopathologic phenomena.This paper proposes an approach to examine delusion as semiotic object that has a symbolic nature.The paper accentuates th
In vivo measurements of the seasonal photosynthetic fluorescence of the Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa (L.)
In situ photosynthetic fluorescence of the zooxanthellate Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa (L.) was measured seasonally on colonies from 5 to 27 m depth harmonica carrying case using an INF-300 Integrating Natural Fluorometer (Biospherical Instrument Inc.).This oceanographic instrument, used to measure the in vivo phytoplankton chlorophyll
The Effect of Procrastination and Goal Orientation on Academic Dishonesty Moderated by Self-Efficacy in Postgraduate
This unethical behavior occurs because of the mindset of each individual, if the individual thinks everyone is cheating, then they will tend to cheat.This study aims to see the effect of procrastination and goal orientation on academic dishonesty in post-graduate moderated by self-efficacy.The scale used for the data collection is the academic dish
Characterization of viruses associated with garlic plants propagated from different reproductive tissues from Italy and other geographic regions
Garlic is an important crop cultivated worldwide and several different viruses have been associated with propagative material.Garlic is propagated from bulbs and/or from vegetative topsets of the inflorescences known as bulbils.The effects of the geographic origin and the type of the propagative material on the phylogenetic relationships and geneti