BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare the differences across occupational groups related to their end-of-life care-specific educational needs and reported intensity of interprofessional collaboration in long-term care (LTC) homes. METHODS A cross-sectional survey, based on two questionnaires, was administered at four LTC homes in Ontario, Canada using a modified Dilman's approac...

Privacy is a software quality that is closely related to security. The main difference is that security properties aim at the protection of assets that are crucial for the considered system, and privacy aims at the protection of personal data that are processed by the system. The identification of privacy protection needs in complex systems is a hard and error prone task. Stakeholders whose per...

one of the most important issues in educational psychology is school engagement and academic achievement among students. based on self system model, a set of contextual factors (relations with teachers like perceived autonomy, structure, and involvement) through personal psychological characteristics (autonomy, relatedness, competence) is related to school engagement. the purpose of this study ...

OBJECTIVES Personal and equipment assistance are often used to reduce disability. This study predicts use of assistance, type of assistance, and its efficacy (improvement with assistance) for disabilities in personal care and household management tasks. METHODS U.S. community-dwellers aged 55+ are studied using the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement. Three types ...

Personal search history is an important type of personal information, from which we can learn a user’s interests and information needs, thus improve the search service for the user. In this paper, we describe our recent work on User-Centered Adaptive Information Retrieval (UCAIR), which aims at capturing personal search history with a client-side search agent and exploiting the history informat...

The current investigation sought to examine the learning and target needs of mechanical engineering (ME) students based on the learners and instructors’ attitudes though an explanatory mixed-method design. To elicit learners’ perceptions of English for Science and Technology (EST), 114 ME undergraduate students and 13 EST instructors from four Iranian state universities took part in a large qua...

How does an infant learn through visual experience to imitate actions of adult teachers, despite the fact that the infant and adult view one another and the world from different perspectives? To accomplish this, an infant needs to learn how to share joint attention with adult teachers and to follow their gaze towards valued goal objects. The infant also needs to be capable of view-invariant obj...