The effect of green leaders' Emotional Intelligence on the behavior of employees in organizations with the mediating role of environmental concerns and sustainable organizational culture.

This paper examines the relationship between the emotional intelligence of green transformational leadership and the organizational behavior of employees. Since previous studies that green motivations affect green creativity have not been conducted, this study aims to fill this research gap and considers the following. For this purpose, in this research, an analysis-based survey approach has been used to gain insight. In order to investigate, experts active in fast-moving industries in Iran have been used. The Partial Least Squares regression method (based on variance) has been used in this research. For this purpose, 120 experts were surveyed and the survey results were evaluated and analyzed. The findings showed that green transformational leadership has a significant effect on Green behavior with the mediating role of green organizational culture, and this is needed for employees to produce clean and green products and services. Therefore, leaders in organizations should increase the green motivation of employees so that they can innovate in the production of sustainable products and services that are compatible with the environment and sustainability

Clinimetrics

'Clinimetrics' is the term introduced by Alvan R. Feinstein in the early 1980s to indicate a domain concerned with indexes, rating scales and other expressions that are used to describe or measure symptoms, physical signs and other clinical phenomena. Clinimetrics has a set of rules that govern the structure of indexes, the choice of component variables, the evaluation of consistency, validity and responsiveness. This review illustrates how clinimetrics may help expanding the narrow range of information that is currently used in clinical science. It will focus on characteristics and types of clinimetric indexes and their current use. The clinimetric perspective provides an intellectual home for clinical judgment, whose implementation is likely to improve outcomes both in clinical research and practice

The Psychosomatic Practice.

There is increasing awareness of the limitations of the disease-oriented approach in medical care. The primary goal of psychosomatic medicine is to correct this inadequacy by incorporation of innovative operational strategies into clinical practice. Psychosomatic practice can be recognized by 2 distinctive features: the holistic approach to patient management (encompassing psychosocial factors) and the clinical model of reasoning (which reflects a multifactorial frame of reference). A basic psychosomatic assumption is the consideration of patients as partners in managing disease. The partnership paradigm includes collaborative care (a patient-physician relationship in which physicians and patients make health decisions together) and implementation of self-management (a plan that provides patients with problem-solving skills to enhance their self-efficacy). Pointing to strategies that focus on individual needs may improve patient quality of life and final outcomes

«Lei è ebreo?». Mondi a confronto nelle Lettere a Milena di Kafka

Il contributo intende analizzare, attraverso il rapporto e l’intenso, seppur breve, scambio epistolare tra Franz Kafka e Milena Jesenská, il clima culturale nella Praga degli anni successivi al crollo dell’impero, segnato da un antisemitismo sempre più aggressivo e minaccioso che rende problematico l’incontro e il rapporto tra appartenenze e culture diverse, come quella ebraica, e ceca. Su questo sfondo si dipana il rapporto tra lo scrittore ebreo e tedesco e la sua traduttrice ceca, amica e confidente, un rapporto ricco e complesso tra mondi diversi eppur dialoganti. The essay aims at analyzing, by examining the special bond between Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská through the lens of their letters, Prague's cultural life in the aftermath of the fall of the Habsburg Empire; an historical event marked by an increasingly threatening and aggressive antisemitism, which made the relationship between the Jewish community and other social units, such as the Czech population, more problematic. The relationship between the Jewish writer and his Czech translator, close friend and confidante, unfolds against this background. A rich and complicated relationship between different albeit communicating worlds

Adjuvant psychological therapy in long term endocrine conditions.

Summary Consideration of psychological distress in long term endocrine conditions is of vital importance given the prevalence of anxiety and depression in such disorders. Poor mental health can lead to compromised self-care, higher utilisation of health services, lower rates of adherence, reduced quality of life and ultimately poorer outcomes. Adjuvant psychological therapy offers an effective resource to reduce distress in endocrinological disorders. While the vast majority of work in this area has focused on psychological screening and intervention in diabetes, identification and recognition of psychological distress is equally important in other endocrinological conditions, with supportive evidence in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Addison’s disease. Referral pathways and recommendations set out by UK guidelines and the Department of Health mandate requires greater attention across a wider range of long term endocrine disorders to facilitate improved quality of life and health outcom

Benzodiazepines: it's time to return to the evidence

SummaryWe propose that discussions of benzodiazepines in the current psychiatric literature have become negatively biased and have strayed from the scientific evidence base. We advocate returning to the evidence in discussing benzodiazepines and adhering to clear definitions and conceptual rigour in commentary about them

Diagnosis and Complications of Cushing's Syndrome: A Consensus Statement

In October 2002, a workshop was held in Ancona, Italy, to reach a Consensus on the management of Cushing's syndrome. The workshop was organized by the University of Ancona and sponsored by the Pituitary Society, the European Neuroendocrine Association, and the Italian Society of Endocrinology. Invited international participants included almost 50 leading endocrinologists with specific expertise in the management of Cushing's syndrome. The consensus statement on diagnostic criteria and the diagnosis and treatment of complications of this syndrome reached at the workshop is hereby summarized

ACTH Antagonists.

Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) acts via a highly selective receptor that is a member of the melanocortin receptor subfamily of type 1 G protein-coupled receptors. The ACTH receptor, also known as the melanocortin 2 receptor (MC2R), is unusual in that it is absolutely dependent on a small accessory protein, melanocortin receptor accessory protein (MRAP) for cell surface expression and function. ACTH is the only known naturally occurring agonist for this receptor. This lack of redundancy and high degree of ligand specificity suggests that antagonism of this receptor could provide a useful therapeutic aid and a potential investigational tool. Clinical situations in which this could be useful include (1) Cushing's disease and ectopic ACTH syndrome - especially while preparing for definitive treatment of a causative tumor, or in refractory cases, or (2) congenital adrenal hyperplasia - as an adjunct to glucocorticoid replacement. A case for antagonism in other clinical situations in which there is ACTH excess can also be made. In this article, we will explore the scientific and clinical case for an ACTH antagonist, and will review the evidence for existing and recently described peptides and modified peptides in this role