We explore the democratic implications of a reputational account of bureaucratic authority. While an influential literature has examined the relevance of reputation-and mutual exchange between principals and agents in public organizations generally-the normative implications of these insights have largely escaped scrutiny. We discuss how…[Read more]

Exposure of mothers to negative moods and stress before childbirth leads to negative consequences for the infants. Given the importance of psychological health, this study aimed to examine the effect of these factors on the infants’ psychological health.

This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shiraz hospitals on 110 pregnant women…[Read more]

The modeling of source distributions of finite spatial extent in ultrasound and medical imaging applications is a problem of longstanding interest. In time domain methods, such as the finite difference time domain or pseudospectral approaches, one requirement is the representation of such distributions over a grid, normally Cartesian. Various…[Read more]