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The Relationship between Family Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviors (Case Study: Yazd University Students) Seyed Reza Javadian Fatemeh Zeydabadi Nezhad
No full textThe Relationship between Family Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviors (Case Study: Yazd University Students) Seyed Reza Javadian[1] , Fatemeh Zeydabadi Nezhad[2] Received: 29/9/2017 Accepted: 2/10/2018 Abstract The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between family social capital and prosocial behaviors in students, because family members play an important role in the re-production and re-distribution of social capital and in strengthening the prosocial behaviors and the sense of altruism in children. The statistical population was all students at Yazd University in 2014-2015. The sample (372 students) was selected through random convenience sampling. Data was collected through Prosocial Tendencies Measure Revised and social capital questionnaire which was developed by the researcher. Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, T test and regression. The results showed that students' prosocial behaviors was more than average (M=78.4). The Pearson correlation coefficients of social capital dimensions (intimacy, monitoring, social participation, social norm, effectiveness, environmental trust, institutional trust) and students' prosocial behaviors, are statistically significant. Results also indicate that social norm, environmental trust, social participation, institutional trust and monitoring can explain up to 17 percent of the dependent variable. Keywords: Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Social Capital, Family, Student [1]. Assistant Professor in Social Work, Social Sciences Department, YazdUniversity, Yazd, Iran. (Corresponding Author). [email protected] [2]. M.A. in Sociology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. [email protected]
Uncertainty Assessment of Probabilistic Cellular Automata in Microstructure Evolution- Data and Resources
No full textThese codes correspond to the article titled "Uncertainty Assessment of Probabilistic Cellular Automata in Microstructure Evolution" corners with first author M. Seyed-Salehi.THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV
Erratum to: Cold Atmosphere Plasma Modification on Beta-Carotene-Loaded Nanofibers to Enhance Osteogenic Differentiation (Fibers and Polymers, (2022), 23, 1, (18-27), 10.1007/s12221-021-0033-y)
No full text2981The article Cold Atmosphere Plasma Modification on Beta-Carotene-Loaded Nanofibers to Enhance Osteogenic Differentiation, written by Yasamin Moradi, Seyed Alireza Atyabi, Ali Ghiassadin, Hadi Bakhshi, Shiva Irani, Seyed Mohammad Atyabi, and Neda Dadgar, was mistakenly originally published without open access. After publication in Vol.23, No.1, page 18–27 this was corrected and the article was made an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-021-0033-y), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected.231
Frequency of complementary medicine use and attitudes among Iranian patients with chronic diseases
No full textAbstract The study aimed to determine the frequency of the use of complementary medicine (CM) in patients with chronic diseases and its relationship with their attitude towards CM. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Sina Hospital, a general clinical setting located in Tabriz city, Northwest Iran. A total of 400 adult patients with chronic diseases—including cardiac, rheumatologic, endocrine, and nephrological conditions—were recruited using convenience sampling from both specialized outpatient clinics and a traditional medicine unit. Data collection involved structured interviews conducted in clinical settings. Descriptive statistics and bivariate tests were performed, followed by binary logistic regression analysis to identify predictors of CM modality use. According to the result, the most commonly used complementary and alternative Medicine within the past 12 months were Herbal Medicine, Prayer Therapy, Water therapy, Cupping and Massage Therapy with 83, 36, 27, 11, and 8%, respectively. The mean scores of the patients’ attitude towards holistic health were higher than their attitude towards the validity of complementary medicine (21.37 vs. 15.88). Logistic regression analysis revealed that belief in holistic health significantly predicted lower odds of using herbal medicine (OR = 0.85, p = .005), prayer therapy (OR = 0.85, p = .018), and water therapy (OR = 0.82, p = .009). Belief in CM’s scientific validity was positively associated with prayer therapy use (OR = 1.24, p < .001). Additional predictors varied by modality: increased age and high economic status predicted greater use of prayer and water therapies, whereas gender and education levels showed mixed associations. The use of herbal medicine was common among patients with chronic diseases. Therefore, health care providers should pay attention to the use of herbal medicine by their patients considering their interactions with modern medications, efficacy, and side effects. Given the poor attitude towards the validity of CM, there is a need for community-level education on the use of CM for prescribing it by professional practitioners
Author Correction: the Influence of Nano Filter Elements on Pressure Drop and Pollutant Elimination Efficiency in Town Border Stations
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the order of the author names, which was incorrectly given as Hamed Ebadiyan, Saeed Zeinali Heris, Seyed Borhan Mousavi, Shamin Hosseini Nami ; Mousa Mohammadpourfard. Consequently, in the Author Contributions section, “H.E. Investigation. S.Z.H. Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation. S.B.M. Formal analysis, Writing original draft. S.H.N. Formal analysis, Writing original draft. M.M. Validation.” now reads: “S.Z.H. Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation. H.E. Investigation. S.B.M. Formal analysis, Writing original draft. S.H.N. Formal analysis, Writing original draft. M.M. Validation.” The original Article has been corrected. © 2023, The Author(s)
Where should reading strategies be taught first: In Persian (L1), English (L2) or Arabic (L3)? / Seyed Hassan Talebi
No full textThis paper touches upon issues and trends in language transfer studies and reading research.
Then, a brief report of three separate published papers by the author on the transfer of reading
strategies from L1 to L2, L2 to L3 and L2 to L1 will be provided. In language transfer studies the
idea is that languages affect each other. But, from where is it logical to lay the stepping stones of
strategic reading if it is believed awareness of reading strategies transfer from one language to
another in a multilingual mind? It seems it is logical and cost effective to improve strategic
reading competence in L1 if it is shown that learners' skills and experiences in language
learning are cross-linguistically linked together
Principles and fundamentals of Islamic management
No full text"The traditional approach to business and public management assumes that management decisions and outcomes will remain the same, irrespective of the environment in which they are applied. However, the value systems operating within a society can also influence the principles that govern modern management within organizations. Principles and Fundamentals of Islamic Management examines the concept of business and public management from the viewpoint of Islam, with close reference to the Quran and other illuminating Islamic sources. Seyed Mohammad Moghimi provides key insights from an Islamic perspective across a comprehensive range of management topics, including planning, decision making and policy making, organizing, human resources management, directing and organizational control. The book concludes by analyzing the role of a company director within an Islamic context. Through this in-depth exploration of Islamic management principles and fundamentals, the author creates a modern and practical framework suitable for use by international business managers. Providing a much-needed insight into the practicalities of management operations in an Islamic context, this book is essential reading for researchers, managers, and for students of Islamic management at both undergraduate and graduate levels"--Back cove
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
No full textDue to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely
A grey-based green supplier selection model for uncertain environments
No full textThe concept of green supply chain management emerged as a response to increasing public awareness of environmental protection in the past few decades. As companies tend to outsource a variety of their activities, green supplier selection as an imperative function of green supply chain management, has a crucial role in helping companies to maintain their strategic competitiveness. Despite the plethora of studies introducing supplier selection models based on economic criteria, studies that take into account the environmental issues are rather limited. In this study, a comprehensive grey-based green supplier selection model is proposed that incorporates both economic and environmental criteria. A novel weight assignment model is proposed by combining best-worst method and fuzzy grey cognitive maps to capture the interdependencies among the criteria. Improved grey relational analysis is advanced to be able to use grey weights of criteria to evaluate green suppliers which are subsequently ranked using an interval analysis approach. This study contributes to the decision-making theory by addressing the shortcomings of the available green supplier selection models. A real-world case study is also presented to show the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed model. The results of this study proved the proposed comprehensive model to be well capable of addressing the green supplier selection problem by taking in to account the interdependencies between criteria as well as the uncertainties associated with experts’ judgments.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Transport and Logistic
* Corresponding author (Ali Seyed Yaghoubi) AN EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THICKNESS EFFECT ON CROSS-PLY GLARE 5 FML PLATES SUBJECTED TO BALLISTIC IMPACT
No full textABSTRACT GLARE 5 fiber-metal laminated (FML) plates of dimensions: 152.4 mm × 101.6 mm with various thicknesses, ranging from 1.12 mm up to 4.37 mm, were impacted by a 0.22 caliber bullet-shaped projectile using a high-speed gas gun. A high-speed camera was used to measure the projectile velocity along its ballistic trajectory. The post-impact damage characteristics were evaluated using both nondestructive ultrasonic and destructive mechanical sectioning techniques. Only the contour of the entire damage area could be obtained using ultrasonic C-scan; whereas more details of the damage were provided through the mechanical cross-sectioning technique. As expected, thicker GLARE 5 offered higher impact resistance. It was found that by increasing the specimen thickness, the damage contour increased. In addition, the results showed that for a given specimen thickness, the damage contour was maximized near its ballistic limit velocity. The 3D dynamic nonlinear finite element (FE) software, LS-DYNA, was used to validate the experimental results. Good agreement between experimental and FE results was obtained
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