PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Older adults often have problems finding their way in novel environments such as senior living residences and hospitals. The purpose of this study was to examine the types of self-reported search strategies and cues that older adults use to find their way in a virtual maze. DESIGN AND METHODS Healthy, independently living older adults (n = 129) aged 55-96 were tested in a...

he future of healthcare delivery systems will depend on heir ability to provide the best care at the least cost. In he clinical laboratory, this translates to ensuring that lecreased test use means appropriate use. The latter is nhikely to occur unless clinical laboratories provide practicing physicians with advice on test strategy and iterpretation of results. Effective clinical laboratory con...

Testing is the process of stimulating a system with inputs in order to reveal hidden parts of the system state. We consider a variant of the testing problem that was put forward in the model-based diagnosis literature, and consists of finding input patterns that definitely discriminate between different constraint-based system models. We show that this problem can be framed as a game played bet...

different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

selection of appropriate strategies is one of the important principles to achieve profitability in the business models. one of the most important of these strategies, is use of appropriate pricing strategies in order to have the correct and satisfy product pricing process, the factors that affect pricing should be identify and control. plc as organizational factors affecting group is of the mai...

The purpose of this paper is to show that for a dense G set of three smooth convex bodies with nowhere vanishing curvature in the C topology k the open billiard obtained from these convex bod ies determines a potential the one that de nes the natural escape measure of this billiard which is non lattice This result generalizes one of the results obtained in a previous work of A Lopes and R Marka...

Scholars have been investigating the quick emergence of digital platforms, essentially through the lens of digital native firms. If there is limited occurrence of platforms launched by incumbent firms such as Daimler (Car2Go, Moovel) or Johnson Controls (Panopix), the economics of their strategic responses through platforms by incumbents merit attention. This paper provides the first largescale...

aces in the audience on the 25th of January! "How to win a house job" is not a subject to which there is a short answer, but rather one in which the importance lies ln the summation of a lot of minor points plus a few more major and more definite ?nes, so I shall give a general factual background and then some more detailed advice. The factual background I decided to obtain from a questionnaire...

in this paper, a new approach based on game theory has been proposed to multi responses problem optimization. game theory is a useful tool for decision making in the conflict of interests between intelligent players in order to select the best joint strategy for them through selecting the best joint desirability. present research uses the game theory approach via definition of each response as ...