This study explores the relationship between Perception of organizational structure and human resources development for the employees of Mobarakeh Esfahan Steel Company .For this study a descriptive method of a correlational nature was employed. The statistical population comprised all the Mobarakeh Esfahan Steel Company employees, from whom, using a systematic sampling technique and Cochran's ...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and occupational stress among rehabilitation staffs in Tehran’s training hospitals . Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 169 staff members selected from a total of 300 rehabilitation staffs working in Tehran’s training hospitals, recruited by random clu...

A skills learning methodology is presented for autonomous physical agents. Adaptation of skills and learning is a fundamental part of the simple agent behaviours outlined. A general framework of skills learning is described that uses skill macros to define simple behaviours by agents that communicate, sense and act in the physical world. Programmed playfulness can be easily implemented in this ...

OBJECTIVE A literature review was made to construct a proposal regarding the concept of competences-based learning in higher education. METHODS The pertinent literature published in Spanish and English in databases such as Medline, Redalyc, SciELO and Academic Google, as well as material in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, reference centers and books was searched using keywords. The data...

BACKGROUND Professionalism and communication skills constitute important components of the integral formation of physicians which has repercussion on the quality of health care and medical education. The objective of this study was to assess medical graduates' professionalism and communication skills from the patients' perspective and to examine its association with patients' socio-demographic ...

BACKGROUND Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids is a serious concern for health care workers, and presents a major risk for the transmission of infections such as HIV and hepatitis viruses. The objective of this study was to investigate occupational exposures and behavior of health care workers (HCWs) in eastern Ethiopia. METHODS We surveyed 475 HCWs working in 10 hospitals and 20 h...

The purpose of this descriptive study is to investigate the perceptions of occupational therapists working in school-based settings regarding their level of preparation for practice. The Survey of School-Based Practice was mailed to 1,102 occupational therapists working in school-based practice (SBP) throughout the United States. The mailing was based on a random sampling of 20% of the School S...

Understanding physical phenomena is a key component of human intelligence and enables physical interaction with previously unseen environments. In this paper, we study how an artificial agent can autonomously acquire this intuition through interaction with the environment. We created a synthetic block stacking environment with physics simulation in which the agent can learn a policy endto-end t...

Due to the complexity and sophistication of the skills needed in real world tasks, the development of autonomous robot controllers requires an ever increasing application of learning techniques. To date, however, learning steps are mainly executed in isolation and only the learned code pieces become part of the controller. This approach has several drawbacks: the learning steps themselves are u...