background: the main purpose of the present paper is to examine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress, stress coping strategies and illness perception in women with ulcerative colitis.   materials and methods: this is an experimental study performed as pretest and post-test. the population consists of woman suffering from ulcerative colitis in isfahan. the s...

objectives: the most common problem that delinquent children and juveniles deal with at every moment is the lack of sufficient control over their aggression. accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of mental rehabilitation group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on decreasing aggression in juvenile delinquents. methods: this study employed a quasi-experimental ...

The paper presents an ACT-R model of task switching, which implements flexible mechanism of control over task rules, that adapts to the level of task change predictability. In predictable task switching situations, the model loads relevant task rules into an easily accessible focus of attention (simulated with an ACT-R goal buffer). However, when tasks change randomly, such strategy would lead ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (act) on the subscales of marital satisfaction overall satisfaction, religious orientation, relations with children, sex, occasional conflicts, interpersonal conflicts and arrogance, by single case study in the spouses of veterans with spinal cord injuries. methods: par...

This is one of several releases that the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) will be considering relating to the use of credit ratings in our rules and forms. In this release, we are proposing a new rule as well as rule and form amendments under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 to implement provisions of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consu...

For the past two decades, speech-act theory has been one of the basic tools for studying pragmatics from both a theoretical and an experimental perspective. In this paper, I want to discuss certain aspects of the theory with respect to data from early communication in children. My aim will be to show that some of the central assumptions of the speech-act model of utterance comprehension need to...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) is proposing for comment new rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’) that are intended to implement provisions of Title VII (‘‘Title VII’’) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’) relating to external business conduct standards for security-based swap dealers ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) is proposing for comment new rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’) that are intended to implement provisions of Title VII (‘‘Title VII’’) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’) relating to external business conduct standards for security-based swap dealers ...