objectives: since problem solving group training is a comprehensive, active program and based-on cognitive behavioral approach, the aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving therapy on depression and coping style in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. methods: in an experimental design the study was done with pretest-posttest with control group. totally 30 f...

The sectorisation of the West Midlands Police has allowed officers to work in a highly localised environment and develop a sound understanding of their constituent community. Supported by a management team that encourages innovation and fuelled by a sense of ownership, officers have begun to adopt problem solving techniques to address long term issues previously overlooked by traditional incide...

Transport risk assessment for the environment has two important aspects—problem solving model and solution veracity. Problem solving model is larger understanding of tasks interconnection, which represents in itself partial solution of general risk assessment. Veracity of solution means how the results are consistent with the reality. By researching of both aspects, it rises many unanswered que...

Numerous studies on bankruptcy prediction have widely applied data mining techniques to finding out the useful knowledge automatically from financial databases, while few studies have proposed qualitative data mining approaches capable of eliciting and representing experts’ problem-solving knowledge from experts’ qualitative decisions. In an actual risk assessment process, the discovery of bank...

act intelligently is to endow them with the ability to understand the behaviors of other agents (human or artificial) in their environment. Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are the ultimate example of this challenge: their goal is to provide instruction personalized to the specific needs of each learner, as good human tutors do. But understanding these needs can be extremely hard, because it...