This letter presents an autonomous navigation system for ground robots traversing aggressive unstructured terrain through a cohesive arrangement of mapping, deliberative planning and reactive behaviour modules. All systems are aware slope, visibility vehicle orientation, enabling to recognize, plan react around unobserved areas overcome negative obstacles, slopes, steps, overhangs narrow passag...

This study examined the dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial intent of undergraduate American and Canadian entrepreneurship students. It was found that American entrepreneurship students had lower levels of dispositional optimism (one’s positive expectation for the future), a defining characteristic of successful entrepreneurs, when compared to Canadian entrepreneurship students. Moreover...

The social problems encountered by schoolchildren with epilepsy as a result of negative attitudes and beliefs are enormous. Varying reports on teachers' perception of epilepsy abound. Furthermore previous research has shown that urbanization and differences in socio-cultural environments could also influence teachers' perception of epilepsy. A few studies have explored the knowledge, attitude a...

Do optimistic expectations facilitate or hinder adaptive responses to relationship challenges? Traditionally, optimism has been characterized as a resource that encourages positive coping efforts within relationships. Yet, some work suggests optimism can be a liability, as expecting the best may prevent individuals from taking proactive steps when confronted with difficulties. To reconcile thes...

this study has emphasized the importance of family training on: 1) adaptation of patieants in everyday life, 2) increasing family knowledge and, 3) reducing family negative attitude toward this illness. using a questionnaire and clinical interview, 30 families were studied in 3 groups, which wre matched regarding the patients sex, age, education, social class and dagnosis. the results showed th...

background: this study was conducted to develop a questionnaire in order to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of the faculty members and students toward plagiarism. methods: a kap study was conducted from june to october 2011 enrolling 390 volunteers anonymously (response rate 96%). the questionnaire included the following four parts: (a) general characteristics like gender, acade...