Technology acceptance in private spaces has not received much attention, although users' behaviour may be different due to the space which usage takes place. To address this gap, present study proposed a model exploring individuals' values, perception of technology performance and attitudinal beliefs relation use satisfaction when using smart technologies their homes. The employed sample 422 pa...

Background: Adolescence pregnancy is high risk both for mother and child. This systematic review aimed to determine the effect of home visiting on maternal and neonatal outcomes in adolescent mothers.Materials and Methods: This systematic review was performed by searching English databases including Cochran library, PubMed, Google scholar, Scopus, web of science, Embase, Ovid and Persian databa...

objectives: conducting field tests of a vibrotactile aid for deaf/deafblind persons for detection, identification and directional perception of environmental sounds. methods: five deaf (3f/2m, 22–36 years) individuals tested the aid separately in a home environment (kitchen) and in a traffic environment. their eyes were blindfolded and they wore a headband and holding a vibrator for sound ident...

existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. According to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

Activity recognition plays an important role in many areas such as smart environments by offering unprecedented opportunities for health monitoring, automation, security and energy efficiency. One challenge of activity recognition is the need for huge amounts of annotated data for each new physical setting. Our question is “how can we use activities learned in one space, e.g. home A, to recogni...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dental surface treatment with erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(er: yag), neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet(nd: yag) and carbon dioxide laser  (co 2 ) lasers and sodium ascorbate to recently home bleached enamel by scanning electron microscope (sem). methods: thirty extracted human third molars were selected for this in...