Meeting is one of the most common places where decisions are made. However, since there is hardly any formal documentation concerning decisions made in meetings, it turns out to be very difficult to trace these decisions. Our work argues that in order to improve this scenario with computer supported systems, we need first a more holistic approach regarding the meeting cycle, composed of pre-mee...

Contextual Graphs are a context-based formalism used in various real-world applications. They allow a uniform representation of elements of reasoning and of contexts for describing different human tasks such as troubleshooting and interpretation. A contextual graph represents a task realization. Its paths represent the different ways of reaching this realization, each way corresponding to a pra...

In the current study the influence of proactive interference (PI) and practice on recall from a visuospatial working memory (WM) task was examined. Participants completed a visuospatial WM span task under either high-PI conditions (a traditional span task) or low-PI conditions (a span task with breaks between trials). Trials of each length (i.e., two to five to-be-remembered items) were equally...

Changing people social status, particularly upwardly, is often considered an indication of a government success in reaching a fair society, particularly in traditionally rigid structures. This is mainly possible through implementing development plan(s) which is theoretically assumed to result in wiping out traditional rigid structures. In the post-revolutionary Iran, the government took upon it...

patients and methods subjects of this study include teaching hospitals in mashhad, affiliated with mashhad university of medical sciences and the tool used in gathering the data was a questionnaire, completed based on the information provided by the proceedings of the meetings held by the ethics committees. also, for the purpose of gathering the suggestions, specifically on the improvement of t...