background: work settings provide a unique opportunity for health promotion interventions. considering the issue of obesity in employees, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the intervention based on new communication technologies and the social cognitive theory on weight control in the governmental employees of hamadan city, western iran in 2014. methods: this randomized control...

Cognitive Radio provides enhanced wireless communication performance through context-aware sensing and adaptation. Cooperative relay enhances network connection quality and improved system throughput. Applying cooperative relay communication technique on Cognitive Radio networks enables Cognitive Radio to opportunistically exploit cooperation between network nodes. This integrated design that b...

in this article,we briefly analyse cognitive science and cognitive economics. generally, there are two main theories related to cognitive science and brain performance models. first theory which are inspired by computer and artifical intelligence and second the connectionist models. the connectionist theory is the most prevalent in cognitive science now. hayek and north ,the two nobel laureates...

The theory of evolution links random variation and selection to incremental adaptation. In a different intellectual domain, learning theory links incremental adaptation (e.g., from positive and/or negative reinforcement) to intelligent behaviour. Specifically, learning theory explains how incremental adaptation can acquire knowledge from past experience and use it to direct future behaviours to...

Compensatory adaptation theory makes two key predictions. On one hand, the theory predicts that electronic communication media in general will pose obstacles to complex communication between collaborators, when compared with the face-to-face medium, which will lead to an increase in cognitive effort and communication ambiguity. On the other hand, the theory also predicts that those obstacles wi...

This work provides some work towards the unification of the work completed to date as an immunologicalinspired cognitive paradigm. Keywords-Clonal Selection Theory, Acquired Immune System, Artificial Immune System, Cognitive Immune Paradigm I. THE MODELS To date, much effort has been directed towards proposing models and architectures to house the clonal selection theory [1,2,6], and more recen...

Cognitive research has found people are sometimes adept and inept at handling complexity. Complexity is a key concept in much of cognitive science, yet the field scarcely incorporated any work complexity theory. theory may generally be too abstract to easily apply human cognition studies. Here, problem addressed by considering through constructing model epistemic emergence, Cognitive-Habitat St...

Cognitive control refers to the ability to repress our instantaneous urges in favor of more appropriate responses. Current debate concerns whether cognitive control effects that are studied in the laboratory (e.g. Stroop tasks) actually reflect the operation of a cognitive control system (adaptation theory) or instead merely reflect side effects of feature binding processes (binding theory). Th...

objectives due to the lack of a standard tool for assessing patients’ capacity to consent to medical treatment in iran, the present study was carried out aiming to devise a persian version of a cross-cultural adaptation of the macarthur competence assessment tool. conclusions in the present study, we are able to focus on and prove the efficacy and benefits of this measurement tool. results the ...