Editorial Child mental health is a goal of high priority for parents in post-modern society, as many stressors may threaten the psychological well-being of the few children that are born in the so-called developed countries. By noting the high prevalence of mental disorders during childhood and adolescence parents are aware how fragile the psychosocial development of their child may be. Aiming ...

Teaching computer information systems via distance education is a challenge for both student and faculty. Much research work has been performed on methods of success for teaching via distance education. Less work has been undertaken on how these methods fit into the unique issues associated with computer information systems. This paper reviews much of the work done on identifying issues of dist...

Due to its important role in high speed railway operation, service planning is always focused on by the researchers. With the development of computer technology, some systems have been researched to help operators and researchers to get satisfied service plan. The paper researches such a system for large-scale high speed railway network. It analyzes the main process of service planning firstly ...

BACKGROUND Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders present with unusual or odd-sounding prosody. Despite this widely noted observation, prosodic ability in autism spectrum disorders is often perceived as an under-researched area. AIMS This review seeks to establish whether there is a prosodic disorder in autism, what generalizations can be made about its various manifestations and whe...

in this section the latest scholarly and well-researched work of the contemporary qur’an researcher, ayatollah muhammad hadi ma’rifat, by the title of “shubahauon wa rodudon hawl al-qur’an al-karim” (misconceptions and refutations concerning the holy qur’an) is introduced and reviewed.

The adaptive fault-tolerant control problem for descriptor nonlinear system is researched in this paper.

Irukandji syndrome is a poorly defined set of symptoms that occur after envenoming by certain species of jellyfish, primarily cubozoans or 'box jellyfish'. Envenomed victims can show symptoms ranging from headaches, severe pain, nausea and vomiting to pulmonary oedema, cardiac failure and severe hypertension resulting in death. Historically, this syndrome appears to have been misdiagnosed and r...

This article describes research-based role-play on academic integrity. In the role-play, doctoral students negotiated the revision of an institutional integrity policy representing different groups of academics and students. On the one hand, role-play as a teaching method and learning activity demonstrated the difficulty of accommodating different perspectives; on the other, it showed the power...