game-based practicing of materials can be seen as a method of capturing an essence of real- life expe-rience which is commonly missing in the conventional face-to-face classrooms. to serve the l2 learn-ers' immediate communicative needs in wider classroom and societal contexts, this study sought to place l2 english learners within an interactional social framework through reinforcing their...

Social norms play a pivotal role in sustaining social order by regulating individual behaviors in a society. In normative multiagent systems, social norms have been used as an efficient mechanism to govern virtual agent societies towards cooperation and coordination. In this paper, we study the emergence of social norms via learning from repeated local interactions in networked agent societies....

Nowadays applications for Business Intelligence (BI) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been adopted by multiple organizations. BIDSS have become one of the most significant tools for managers. Big corporations as well as small enterprises annually spend billions of dollars for BIDSS software in order to improve design, manufacturing, service, marketing, management, and financial decision-...

Abstract This work investigates the effectiveness of Collective intelligence (CI) in demand side management (DSM) urban areas to cope with extreme climate events. CI is a form distributed that emerges collaborative problem solving and decision making. It used simulation platform control energy performance buildings an area Stockholm, through developing CI-DSM setting certain adaptation measures...

background : improving quality of life (qol) has been an important consideration in patients with chronic diseases such as cancer particularly in last two decades. praying is a valuable nursing care to improve cancer patients’ qol. however, controversies still exist about the effect of different types of praying. this study was conducted to compare the impact of private and collective praying o...

In this paper, we propose a framework of motivations about why people participate in crowdsourcing without monetary incentives. The framework is based on the four pillars of crowdsourcing as well as the motivations referenced from collective action studies. We argue that crowdsourcing is not only about collective intelligence but is also similar to collective action, particularly when there is ...

Background and aims: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.The impact of the number of attacks on the disease is undeniable. The aim of this study was to analyze thenumber of attacks in these patients.Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, the registered data of 1840 MS patients referred to the MS clinicof Ayatollah Kash...

BACKGROUND Community mobilization is a participatory intervention strategy used among Female Sex Workers (FSW's) to address HIV risks through behavior change and self empowerment. This study quantitatively measure and differentiate theoretically defined forms of FSW participation's and identify their contextual associated factors. METHOD Data was derived from cross-sectional Integrated Bio Be...