61 research outputs found
Work in Progress: Evaluating and Providing Solutions for Self-Leadership
No full textThe basic principle of team leadership within an organization is self-leadership. This is because leadership of the self within a team is so important. Self leadership can be defined as self-knowing, self-awareness, self-management and self-discipline: each of these components assists in the implementation of leadership within the organization. The goal of this paper is to analyze the components of self-leadership. This study is applicative in its goals, and statistical in implementation. All of the personnel of Payam Noor University- Kangavar branch in 2011-2012 were chosen as the statistical branch. 44 of 55 people were chosen as the sample size. A self-leadership questionnaire with 18 questions and reliability coefficient of 70% was used to collect data. Further data analysis was conducted with using a T-test; the research demonstrated that there is a significant correlation between the self-leadership components of Payam Noor University personnel
Characterisation of adjacent pits with combined application of MFL and laser scanning techniques
No full textThe most common corrosion defect found in pipelines is adjacent pits. Adjacent pits are a group of individual pits interacting with each other. Due to their geometry, discriminating between these defects and accurately sizing them is not possible using the traditional magnetic flux
leakage (MFL) technique. Significant improvements in depth sizing accuracy can be obtained if sizing models can be optimised on high-resolution data that allows the shapes and actual dimensions of the adjacent pits to be more clearly discerned. This paper presents a new combination method
of MFL and high-resolution laser scanning techniques for improving the accuracy of depth sizing of adjacent pits. MFL and laser scanning experiments have been conducted in a laboratory set-up on pits with different edge-to-edge distances. The results of the new combination method reveal how
the additional laser scanning data, which allows increased distinction of individual pits, can help the MFL sizing model and improve the depth sizing accuracy.</jats:p
MEANING OF SELF-CARE: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN DIABETIC PATIENTS
Get PDFBACKGROUND: Diabetes continuously disrupts a patient’s well-being and quality of life. Successful self-care could potentially decrease overall costs and rates of mortality and morbidity. Patients’ experiences could be used to elucidate what they believe about illness and its management. The overall aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of self-care among diabetic patients in Southeast of Iran. METHODS: Sixteen diabetic patients with a mean age of 34 and 10 years ’ experience in self-care for their disease were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed with a Ricoeur’s phenomenological hermeneutic method. RESULTS: The meaning of self- care was comprehensively understood as being empowered. This can be divided into four themes: seeking information, being independent, being optimistic or pessimistic and trust in God. CONCLUSION: The results in this study suggest that cultural and religious components could affect diabetic patients ' self-care. Nurses might use patients ’ religious beliefs to relieve their stress, help them to retain a sense of control, maintain hope and sense of meaning and purpose in their life
Detection of sub-surface defects in ferromagnetic steels using a pulsed eddy current technique
No full textThe Effect of Task Repetition on Complexity and Accuracy of Iranian High-intermediate EFL Learners’ Narrative Writing Performance
Get PDFDevelopments in the area of task-based language teaching (TBLT) research have heightened the need to focus on the task implementation factors in the sense that they are effective in successful language performance to occur. The present study aimed to examine the effect of task repetition, as one of the task implementation variables, on Iranian high-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' narrative writing performance. To this end, a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design was applied; 40 participants, with 18 to 25 years of age, were non-randomly selected and considered as two groups of the experimental and control ones. Both groups took a pre-test to ensure their homogeneity in narrative writing skill. Then, for 14 sessions, the experimental group was engaged in repetitive practice of narrative writing tasks. Three weeks after the end of the treatment, both groups performed the two post-tests. The results of independent samples t-tests showed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control one in regard with complexity on the two post-test phases (p.05), however; the results were not significant in the case of accuracy. The findings have important pedagogical implications for EFL learners and teachers, as well as useful future research directions in EFL writing for the researchers
Legitimacy in the Literature: Distinguishing Between Perceived and Actual Value Congruence in Carbon Reduction Initiatives
Get PDF\ua9 2025 The Author(s). Business Strategy and the Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Academic and social concerns regarding the management of carbon emissions are pressing due to the importance of carbon reduction in the fight against climate change and the strategic implications of the various approaches. In particular, the relationship between carbon reduction and legitimacy has received significant attention, with academics noting both the positive relationship between the two and the risk of ‘greenwashing’. Here, we review the extant literature on carbon reduction and legitimacy, presenting insights into the current academic discourse and highlighting an important distinction between ‘legitimacy’ as it relates to perception and ‘legitimacy’ as it relates to actual congruence between the actions of the company and social expectations. Our review demonstrates that legitimacy as perception is the dominant application of the concept in the literature, and we highlight the importance of more academic consideration of the way in which companies\u27 carbon reduction efforts actually cohere with relevant norms and values
Effects of gradual exposure to carbon dioxide gas on the blood pressure status of workers in coal mines of Kerman province, Iran
Get PDFBACKGROUND: The present study was conducted to investigate the probable changes in blood
pressure of workers in coal mines.
METHODS: In this study 91 workers, who worked in forwarding, preparation and exploitation
units of coal mines and were in direct contact with carbon dioxide gas (from fireworks), have
been selected as the case group, and 70 workers, who did not have direct contact with this gas,
from other units were selected as the control group by simple random sampling method. The
inclusion criteria were over 10 years of work experience and the age range of 30 to 45 years. The
blood pressure values and their classification were determined based on the Seventh Report of
the Joint National Committee on Prevention of Hypertension. Statistical analysis was performed
using t-test.
RESULTS: The results of this study showed that mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in
the case group were significantly lower than the control group (P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: The mean diastolic blood pressure of workers in coal mines is less than other
people due to the CO2 gas. A greater control of the existing gas in mines by relevant factors is
required. Necessary medical care and support measures should also be considered
Effects of gradual exposure to carbon dioxide gas on the blood pressure status of workers in coal mines of Kerman province, Iran
No full textBACKGROUND: The present study was conducted to investigate the probable changes in blood pressure of workers in coal mines. METHODS: In this study 91 workers, who worked in forwarding, preparation and exploitation units of coal mines and were in direct contact with carbon dioxide gas (from fireworks), have been selected as the case group, and 70 workers, who did not have direct contact with this gas, from other units were selected as the control group by simple random sampling method. The inclusion criteria were over 10 years of work experience and the age range of 30 to 45 years. The blood pressure values and their classification were determined based on the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention of Hypertension. Statistical analysis was performed using t-test. RESULTS: The results of this study showed that mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in the case group were significantly lower than the control group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The mean diastolic blood pressure of workers in coal mines is less than other people due to the CO2 gas. A greater control of the existing gas in mines by relevant factors is required. Necessary medical care and support measures should also be considered. Keywords: Blood Pressure Changes, Workers, Coal Mine
Difficulties Felt by Intensive Care Unit Nurses in Providing End-of-Life Care in Southeast Iran
Get PDFIntroduction: Critical care deaths represent most
hospital deaths. The difficulties felt by intensive care
unit (ICU) nurses providing end-of-life care may cause
nurses to experience negative attitudes toward caring
for dying patients. This study was conducted to examine
the difficulties felt by ICU nurses providing end-of-life
care in Southeast Iran. Method: The study used a
cross-sectional descriptive design and was conducted
in 3 hospitals supervised by Kerman Medical
University. Using DFINE (difficulties felt by ICU nurses
providing end-of-life care), difficulties felt by critical care
nurses providing end-of-life care were assessed.
Results: The results indicated that the difficulties that
were felt by critical care nurses were moderate
(2.64 T 0.65). Among the categories and items, the
most difficulties felt by critical care nurses belonged
to the category of ‘‘converting from curative care to
end-of-life care’’ (3.12 T 0.93) and the item ‘‘life-sustaining
treatment is often given excessively’’ (3.49 T 1.14).
Conclusions: The study suggests that health care
managers should organize systematic and dynamic
policies and procedures in dealing with end-of-life care to
assist ICU nurses
A Study of the Relationship between Resilience and Academic Burnout in Nursing Students
Get PDFBackground & Objective: Nurses experience numerous stressors. Nursing students, despite their
limited experience, are forced to face many stressors and this will cause academic burnout among
them. Resiliency has a key role in the reduction of negative consequences and increasing of
positive consequences of stress, and thus, can impact academic burnout. This study was performed
to determine the relationship between resiliency and academic burnout in nursing students of
Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 161 nursing students.
Demographic characteristics form, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), and
Academic Burnout Questionnaire (Breso et al.) were used to collect data. The results were
analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test, and ANOVA in SPSS software.
P < 0.05 was considered as the significant level.
Results: In this study, 154 (95.7%) participants were 19-24 years old, of whom, 62.7% were
women and 37.3% were men. The mean scores of academic burnout and resiliency were 41.56 ±
8.65 and 66.32 ± 11.57, respectively. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient indicated an
inverse statistical correlation between academic burnout and resiliency (r = -0.26, P = 0.001).
Conclusion: In the present study, a significant relationship was observed between academic
burnout and resiliency among nursing students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences.
Students with higher resiliency reported lower academic burnout.
Key Words: Resiliency, Academic burnout, Nursing studen
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