mohammad amin sharifi

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a multidimensional and heterogeneous disorder. Research has shown substantially in the last three decades that child abuse is a pathogenic factor for borderline personality disorder. The main purpose of this study was to predict the borderline personality disorder on the basis of childhood maltreatment and alexithymia, in nonclinical young adults. In this regard, 413 participants were selected using multistage sampling among all students studying in Tehran University. The Borderline Personality Scale (BPS), Child Abuse Self Report Scale (CASRS), and Toronto Alexi-thymia Scale (TAS-20) were used to measure variables. The raw data collected, was analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings were similar to results of previous studies. The results indicate that theoretical model has a good fitness and childhood traumatic experiences (specially emotional abuse) and alexithymia are good predictors for borderline personality disorder. In addition, results revealed that alexithymia mediated rela-tionship between maltreatment and BPD symptoms.

Factitious disorder as Munchausen syndrome is a time and money consuming condition that is presented with different signs and symptoms. In emergent situations, it is not a differential diagnosis with high priority, but when it becomes recurrent with atypical symptoms, factitious disorder and malingering should be considered as well. In this survey, we report an odd and interesting presentation of a factitious disease as a scorpion sting which misled some professional healthcare providers until the patient finally confessed that she used turmeric to mimic the signs of a scorpion sting. She exaggerated her symptoms when asked about the details of the mechanism of the scorpion bite. When encountering an emergent condition, after ruling out the critical conditions especially when the symptom is recurrent, factitious disorders should be considered. Consultation with a psychiatrist help the team manage the patient properly.

Transaction costs of agricultural enterprises are an affective factor on product cost price, net exchange price and farmer’s participation in market. The aim of this survey research was to examine the role of agricultural cooperatives in reducing the transaction costs of Potato production enterprises in Qurveh Township. The sample size (351) was obtained by Bartlet Table and the sampling method was Multistage Cluster. For data collection questioners have been used which its validity was verified by viewpoints of panel of experts and reliability by Tests-Retest. The results showed that farmers cooperative members are facing with lower transaction costs(41%) and their participation in markets outside the province have increased significantly. the variable of membership in the cooperatives could be entered in the Probit model to estimate the farmers participation in relevant market. On the other hand, transaction costs included the cost of information and measurement, significantly entered in the Logit model to estimate the membership of farmers in the cooperatives. Also, index of relations network, cost price and transaction volume were entered into the model.

The present study investigates the seismic performance of reinforced concrete moment frame system retrofitted with different steel bracing systems. Two types of structural combinations including concentric steel bracing system and steel mega bracing system were used in two types of structures with different numbers of stories. These two structures which are designed by 5 and 10 story reinforced concrete moment frame system have poor lateral stiffness. They were considered to compensate for the limitations of drift regulations in areas with high seismic risk and life safety performance level. Then, these frames are improved by concentric steel bracing system and mega bracing system. In this study, the nonlinear static (pushover) analysis was used to evaluate the performance of the structure under the influence of ground motions. Also chord rotation, story drift and base shear were used to compare the response of the improved structure. It was shown that the steel mega bracing system and the concentric steel bracing system are respectively the best types of steel bracing systems for upgrading and retrofitting the structures in terms of drift control regulations, the amount of base shear, the number of plastic hinges, the number of collapse elements and the economic issues.

The main objective of this study is to specify and analyze the determinants of the level of economic empowerment of women heads of households in rural areas of Kordestan province. The study is a descriptive-survey which was carried out in 2008. The sample size was equal to 180 women heads of households which was selected by systematic random sampling method and the data were collected by a questionnaire. In addition to reliability through Cronbach’s alpha and test – retest, the reliability of research tool was examined. The results from data analysis indicated that 24% of women heads of rural households under study were economically empowered and 40.7% were half way through it. The degree of empowerment among the widowed women was highest and among divorced ones was lowest. Analyzing the level of empowerment for the group under study indicated that social insurance, level of development, employment diversification, value of assets and time length of activity in a linear form could explain 71% of variance in economic empowerment of women heads of rural households.

The purpose of the present study was to examine dysfunctional attitudes and coping style in individuals of primary hypertension in comparison with normal person. The sample of the study included 50 persons with primary hypertension (22 female & 28 male) that went on Shahid madani Clinic in Tabriz and also 50 normal persons (20 female & 30 male) which were chosen in comparison with patient group. Then we administered Beck & Viysman dysfunctional attitudes (DAS) and Folk man & Lazarus coping style questionnaires. The design of the present research, according to subjects identity and the considered purposes was a kind of describtive-comparative design. The collected data were analyzed by T and MANOVA tests. Primary hypertension is a kind of psycho physiological disorder that in addition to biological and dangerous body factors as a physiological process, psychological factors such as people attitudes and judgment of life events, the style of assessing if they are under stressor and the way they cope with them, they all have essential role on its appearance and expansion. So the result of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between individual with primary hypertension in dysfunctional attitudes and coping style in comparing with normal person.

The social insurance system has been a necessity in rural life during the last few decades considering its role in sustainability of activities and improvement of the quality of rural life. The present study tries to explain the adoption of social insurance among the farmers of Ghorveh and Dehgolan counties of Kordestan province. The sample was selected by multi stage cluster sampling method proportionate to size among 170 adopter and 260 non adopter farmers and required data was collected by a questionnaire. The study results indicated that factors related to the adoption of social insurance can be summarized in these main factors: household economic potential, farmer's lack of trust, household human capital, the level of rural development and following others. These variables entered in a linear logit model and predicted 75% of the probability of adoption. Also the results showed that there were no significant differences between the adopter and non adopter farmers considering the influence of the two factors, lack of trust to adoption and the level of rural development.