objectives: quality of life, when referring to an individual’s health, is called health-related quality of life. the purpose of this study is to assess self-perceived hearing loss related quality of life of adolescents with hearing loss and its relationship with sex, age sub-groups or school settings with domains of quality of life. methods: a school based survey was conducted in tehran city. u...

Here we'll briefly describe action selection and language generation mechanisms in two "lifelike" software agents, CMattie and IDA, and discuss issues that bear on the topics of architectures for behavior control, interdependencies between emotions and goal-based behaviors, and coordination of scripted and improvised behaviors. These agents are life-like in the sense of interacting with humans ...

BIM optimization methods based on clustering of individual life cycle stages and the formation vector representations clusters are formulated. Algorithms for vectors properties minimization sets formats components obtained, providing full functionality at all project. It is shown that a complete description can be built basis different levels. At same time, number levels does not depend stage i...

Today, sustainability principles should be applied to all industries, including the building sector, which ranks among sectors with most negative environmental impacts [...]

H ospice and palliative care are intrinsically holistic modalities because we cannot – and must not – separate the caring of the mind, body, and spirit when tending to the suffering of people who have serious illnesses or who are in the process of dying. Many interpretations of palliative care agree that it is about providing comfort, easing suffering, and assisting a person and his/her loved o...