322 subjects participated in an experimental study to investigate the effects of tactile, olfactory, audio and visual sensory cues on a participant's sense of presence in a virtual environment and on their memory for the environment and the objects in that environment. Results strongly indicate that increasing the modalities of sensory input in a virtual environment can increase both the sense ...

This paper describes the use of a concept hierarchy for improving the results of association rule mining. Given a large set of tuples with demographic information and personal interest information, association rules can be derived, that associate ages and gender with interests. However, there are two problems. Some data sets are too sparse for coming up with rules with high support. Secondly, s...

OBJECTIVE To study interpreters' experiences of problems in cross-cultural communication with special regard to the general practitioner (GP)-patient encounter. DESIGN A focus-group interview with authorized interpreters was carried out. A phenomenographic method was used in the analysis. SETTING Primary health care. RESULTS The interpreters displayed a number of problems mainly related t...

a benchmarking of policy instruments and experiences for improving farmland preservation in urban fringes of iran1. amir safaee, ph.d. candidate in environmental planning, faculty of environment, university of tehran, tehran- [email protected]. shahrzad faryadi*, associated professor, department of environmental planning and management, faculty of environment, university of tehran, tehran-...

abstract   introduction: depression is one of the most common and serious disorders that threaten human physical and psychological health. the incidence of depression in nurses who work in special wards compared to general wards has been debated for a longtime. in this study, we planned to compare the rate of depression and related factors between these two groups. materials & methods: question...