Objective To investigate parents' experiences of follow-up by general practitioners (GPs) of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and comorbid behavioural and/or psychological problems. Design Qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with parents of children with ID and a broad range of accompanying health problems. Setting County centred study in Norway involving primary and sp...

As SoC technology use increases, the question arises of how to connect the on-chip components. Current solutions use familiar components (such as busses and direct links) but these have throughput concerns and unnecessarily complicate the system design. This paper introduces the full/empty register pipe (FERP) interface and a collection of IP cores to support it. Along with its dataflow computa...

In today’s world, products are designed, manufactured, distributed across multiple countries and boundaries. The implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in a global marketplace faces new challenges in structurally different, yet closely interconnected economies. This paper first details the challenges on language differences, culture gaps, multiple standards and customization in th...

R esearch and development (R&D) and the accelerating progress in science and technology have been the backbone of the global information revolution, dated as beginning in 1969 with the commercial production of a computer on a silicon chip. All these have, in turn, greatly facilitated the emergence of knowledge-based economies (KBEs), inventive entrepreneurs and technology-driven SMEs. In the pr...

abstract aim and background: parenting styles are particular methods that parents use of them in nurturing of their children.the aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of mothers of pre-school children with and without intellectual disabilities. method and material: this is a causal-comparative research.the statistical population of this research includes the whole mothers of pre-scho...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

The commercial potential of newly developed teaching materials and educational software is a frequent undercurrent in discussions of modern education. While commercialisation of teaching materials does not necessarily require computer systems, in practice the vast majority of current interest has been provoked by recent developments in computing, and more particularly, the rise of the Internet....