The main goal of this research is to assess socio- psychotic factors affecting the application ICTsby facultymembers in Islamic Azad University. Simple random sampling method was used. Given that the presentsurvey has a descriptive-field plan and questionnaire is measurement tool that reliability and validity of thistool was confirmed. The results of study show that nine variables affect the ap...

background stroke is an unexpected major life incident that effect on physical functioning and can lead to changes in lifestyle and inability to manage self care, work or leisure. to explore the everyday life situation as experienced by stroke survivors, and their family caregivers, this study was conducted 3-6 month after stroke. methods twelve stroke survivors and thirteen family caregivers w...

As military tactics evolve toward hyper-tempo operations, the ability to analyze vast amounts of mission relevant data is essential to command-and-control decision-making. Plan Monitoring (PM) systems provide mission status decision support to military commanders by correlating execution observables against an operational plan. The primary challenges faced by PM systems in the military domain a...

Analysis of communications in human teams suggests that an important form of communication between team members is an “information providing” dialogue, in which team members update their fellows with information that they regard as important to the task at hand. In this paper we introduce and analyse a formal model of such a form of dialogue, seeing this as a necessary first step in providing s...

This chapter outlines an R&D plan of risk reduction activities to support a decision on how best to meet the Nation's future needs for surveillance radar. After the overview of goals and objectives in section 6.1, sections 6.2 through 6.4 present the three major components of the proposed R&D work: • Technology development and testing; • Proof of MPAR operational concepts; and • Refinement of t...

We consider the problem of providing automated support for guideline-based clinical care. Clinical guidelines are a common format in medical domains for prescribing a set of rules and policies that an attending physician should follow. In terms of an AI planning task, clinical guidelines can be viewed as a shared library of highly reusable skeletal reactive plans, whose details need to be refin...

since, the nutritional behavior is a complicated process in which various factors play the role, this study aimed at specifying the effective factors in nutritional behavior of diabetic patients based on health promotion model. this paper reviews the published articles from 2000 to the beginning of 2012, using the various data banks and search engines such as pubmed, proquest, scopus,elsevier, ...

Software development processes are highly creative, and subject to frequent changes-making it hard to plan and schedule these processes in advance. Also, distributed projects cannot be planned centrally, especially if the involved parties are individual companies with their own areas of responsibility (as is the case in virtual Software corporations). On the other hand, certain aspects of the o...

The mission of the Green visions Plan for 21st Century Southern California is to offer a guide to habitat conservation, watershed health and recreational open space for the Los Angeles metropolitan region. The Plan will also provide decision support tools to nurture a living green matrix for southern California. our goals are to protect and restore natural areas, restore natural hydrological fu...