The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Hispanics are the country's largest and fastest growing minority, representing about 14.4 percent of the population in 2005 (Census Bureau 2006b). By 2050, Hispanics will account for an estimated 24.4 percent of the population--or 1 in every 4 persons in the United States (Census Bureau 2004, Table 1 a). The Hispanic population tends to be younger than the ov...

Researchers interested in the relationships between place and health have been slow to incorporate a life course perspective, probably due to the lack of readily available historical environmental data. This hinders the identification of causal relationships. It also restricts our understanding as to whether there are accumulative effects over the life course and if there are critical periods i...

CONTEXT The effect of diabetes during pregnancy on the cognitive development of offspring is unclear because of inconsistent findings from limited studies. OBJECTIVE This review was aimed to provide the best available scientific evidence on the associations between maternal pregnancy diabetes and the cognitive development of offspring. DATA SOURCES A search was conducted in the Embase, CINA...

objectives: against the background of evidence-based treatments for schizophrenia resistant to medication, the implementation of cognitive-rehabilitation therapy (crt) becomes more important, especially about patients who don’t response to medication. there is less evidence for group format and face to face structure of crt and also for resistant to medication patients. this research investigat...

aim and background: meta-cognitive therapy is based on the principle that meta-cognitive is very important for understanding the way of cognition function and the way of producing our conscious experience about ourselves and the world around us. in this research it has been tried to study the effectiveness of this kind of treatment in improving depression patients. methods and materials: this c...

background due to the lack of enough researches on the impaired underlying mechanisms in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and also existence of new psychological therapies such as metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback, the application of mentioned mechanisms in the new therapies can be introduced as a possible effective option with more long term effects to treat ocd. objectives the cu...

Cognitive models of software comprehension are potential sources of theoretical knowledge for tool designers. Although their use in analysis of existing tools is fairly wellestablished, the literature has shown only limited use of such models for directly developing design ideas. This paper suggests a way of utilizing existing cognitive models of software comprehension to generate design goals ...

Current developments in cognitive and emotion theory suggest that anxiety plays a rather central role in negative emotions. This article reviews findings in the area of anxiety and depression, helplessness, locus of control, explanatory style, animal learning, biology, parenting, attachment theory, and childhood stress and resilience to articulate a model of the environmental influences on the ...

In order to show that the emergence of new ideas takes place in a "constrained cognitive environment", we conducted two experimental shrdies in a creaiive professional area: non-routine design. The first study is focused on the role of analogical reasoning in creativity and. especially, on the nature of potential "sources" of inspiration. which facilitate the evocation process. The second study...

The primary goal of our research is to design adaptive information visualization systems that adapt to the specific needs of each individual viewer. Our first step is to explore data sources that could help detect these needs in real-time, including cognitive measures that impact perceptual abilities, interface interactions, eye-tracking, and physiological sensors. In this paper, we focus on cu...