objectives: the object of this research was to investigate the «quality of life» and relation to demographic characteristics in elderly peopel of tehran. methods & materials: the method of this research was a descriptive-correlation. in this research 243 of elder were selected with accessible sampling from people who referred to elder centers, cultural centers, and public parks in deferent dist...

Spatial relations play important role in computer vision, scene analysis, geographic information systems (GIS) and content based image retrieval. Analyzing spatial relations by Force histogram was introduced by Miyajima et al [10] and largely developed by Matsakis [12] who used a quantitative representation of relative position between 2D objects. Fuzzy Allen relations are used to define the fu...

Infant and adult learners are able to identify word boundaries in fluent speech using statistical information. Similarly, learners are able to use statistical information to identify word-object associations. Successful language learning requires both feats. In this series of experiments, we presented adults and infants with audio-visual input from which it was possible to identify both word bo...

Across many areas of study in cognition, the capacity of working memory (WM) is widely agreed to be roughly three to five items: three to five objects (i.e., bound collections of object features) in the literature on visual WM or three to five role bindings (i.e., objects in specific relational roles) in the literature on memory and reasoning. Three experiments investigated the capacity of obse...

The system change is modeled to be the change of not only types of service but also quality of service (QoS) supported by the objects. An object supports methods only by which the object is manipulated. A method changes not only the state of the object but also QoS of the state. We discuss new equivalent and compatible relations among methods with respect to QoS. By using the relations, we newl...

Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific superclass. This means that methods and attributes defined for the superclass, are also available for objects of the subclass. Existing methods for object-oriented modeling and design, abstract from the dynamic behavior of object...

We present an approach to function-based object recognition that reasons about the functionality of an object’s intuitive parts. We extend the popular “recognition b y parts” shape recognition framework to support “recognition by functional parts”, b y combining a set of functional primitives and their relations with a sel of abstract volumetric shape primitives and their relations. Previous ap...

Robust category-level object recognition is currently a major goal for the Computer Vision community. Intra-class and pose variations, as well as, background clutter and partial occlusions are some of the main difficulties to achieve this goal. Contextual information in the form of object co-ocurrences and spatial contraints has been successfully applied to reduce the inherent uncertainty of th...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between patients' object relations and interpersonal process in psychotherapy. Namely, we tested the hypothesis that the quality of patients' object relations is positively associated with both patient- and therapist-rated alliance quality. DESIGN Psychotherapy was administered naturalistically, with quantitative data collection before and durin...