Maharishi Mahesh Yogi approaches peace from collective consciousness, the holistic level of society where all its component parts are integrated. Collective consciousness arises from the consciousness of all individuals in society and reciprocally influences each individual’s consciousness and behavior. The basis of all levels of individual and collective consciousness is transcendental conscio...

Head injuries are the leading cause of trauma mortality and account for nearly half of all deaths related to trauma injuries. Patients who present with subdural hematomas are at risk for initial damage to the brain, as well as for subsequent brain damage related to re-bleed, ischemia or cerebral edema. These injuries can be acute or chronic in nature, and may be manifested in the patient as an ...

Background & Aims: Exposure Keratitis (EK) is a common problem in critically ill patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We conducted exposure keratitis in mechanical ventilatory patients in the intensive care unit of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Urmia for five years. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, the records of the patients were taken from the medi...

This paper presents an adaptive model of multimodal social behavior for embodied conversational agents. The context of this research is the training of youngsters for job interviews in a serious game where the agent plays the role of a virtual recruiter. With the proposed model the agent is able to adapt its social behavior according to the anxiety level of the trainee and a predefined difficul...

Consistency, defined as the requirement that a series of measurements of the same project carried out by different raters using the same method should produce similar results, is one of the most important aspects to be taken into account in the measurement methods of the software. In spite of this, there is a widespread view that many measurement methods introduce an undesirable amount of subje...

Taken as a model for how groups should make collective judgments and decisions, the ideal of deliberative democracy is inherently ambiguous. Consider the idealised case where it is agreed on all sides that a certain conclusion should be endorsed if and only if certain premises are admitted. Does deliberative democracy recommend that members of the group debate the premises and then individually...

Electronic monitoring systems are becoming a prominent feature of the modern office. The aims of the present study were three-fold. First, to assess the effects electronic security monitoring systems (ESM) have on the user’s physiological state. Second, the researches aimed to examine the effects explicit security challenges have on both user behaviour and physiological state when using an ESM ...

We propose a new theory of IPO underpricing where the asymmetry of the underwriter’s incentives and presence of valuation uncertainty makes underpricing unavoidable. We show how the size of underpricing is defined by valuation uncertainty of the stock (“volatility”) and by the fee level. We quantify the relationship between level of underpricing and level of price volatility. We also show that ...

An individual’s choice of schooling level represents an equilibrium between the marginal rate of return to education and the marginal cost. To estimate the marginal rate of return at each schooling level, I use a Mincer type regression that is more general than in the standard literature, as well as a semiparametric approach. In light of the question raised by Heckman et. al. (1998) about the c...