the purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between rate of internet use and the type of its use with academic performance of the students in islamic azad university of zanjan. to reach this goal, in addition to theoretical studies and investigating research literature, data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. experts approved the validity of the questionnaire and t...

background elective aesthetic surgeries are increasing in the iranian population with reasons linked to body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms. this study compared the body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms among invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic surgery patients and a control group. methods data from 90 participants (invasive aesthetic surgery=30 ss, minim...

Chickens have been familiar to humans since ancient times and have been used not only for culinary purposes but also for cultural purposes including ritual ceremonies and traditional entertainment. The various chicken breeds developed for these purposes often display distinct morphological and/or behavioural traits. For example, the Japanese Shamo is larger and more aggressive than other domest...

The mounting popularity of agent-based simulation systems triggers a number of questions concerning their potential in terms of the scientific fields they are linked with, as well as their limitations in terms of possible uses in fields related to entertainment. The realization of their aesthetic prospective has motivated the creation of models which are more than simple simulations and offer c...

Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true your punk style, or dedicating life an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop account the nature such commitments, and argue that they significant insofar as help us manage temporally extended our agency relationships with objects. At same time, focusing on commitments can give better grasp normativity; this is ...

This research explores ways of harnessing people’s passion for entertainment in order to stimulate players to attain the meta-learning skills they need for lifelong learning and to reach the highest level of learning, that of learning by teaching. More specifically to keep up with today’s pace of training and the goal for it to be just-in-time, we are interested in creating a game generator to ...

The matching of the soundtrack in a movie or a video can have an enormous influence in the message being conveyed and its impact, in the sense of involvement and engagement, and ultimately in their aesthetic and entertainment qualities. Art is often associated with creativity, implying the presence of inspiration, originality and appropriateness. Evolutionary systems provides us with the novelt...

The exploration of the hyperspectral domain offers a host of new research and application possibilities in terms of material appearance modeling. In this paper, we address these prospects with respect to human skin, one of the most ubiquitous materials portrayed in synthetic imaging. We present a novel hyperspectral skin appearance model that takes into account the optical and structural charac...