PURPOSE To assess the effects of equestrian rehabilitation (ER) and onotherapy (Ono) on physical and psycho-social performances of subjects affected by intellectual disability (ID), and to develop a measurement tool based on the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health-Children and Youth (ICF-CY). METHODS A tool based on the ICF-CY classification was designed to evalu...

We evaluated formation of simple symbolic categories from initial learning of specific dictated word-picture relations through emergence of untaught or derived relations. Participants were 10 individuals with severe intellectual and language limitations. Three experimental categories were constructed, each containing 1 spoken word (Set A), 1 photograph (Set B), and 1 visual-graphic "lexigram" (...

The impetus for this field comes from a number of directions. Firstly, as the amount of processing power available for rendering has increased, it has now become feasible to devote a little of it to aspects of a VE beyond visual realism. However visually appealing a VE is, if it is static and empty of change and behaviour, the immersive experience is of limited interest. Cities without people c...

the rapid changes in sport industry urge sport investors and entrepreneurs to adopt creative and innovative approaches. in this situation, intellectual property is among the most important organizational assets and the potential success of an organization is rooted in their intellectual capabilities. on the other hand, relying on innovation, small businesses are seeking to improve their perform...

Over the past century, academic performance has become the gatekeeper to institutions of higher education, shaping career paths and individual life trajectories. Accordingly, much psychological research has focused on identifying predictors of academic performance, with intelligence and effort emerging as core determinants. In this article, we propose expanding on the traditional set of predict...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between prospective memory, working memory, retrospective memory and self-rated memory capacity in adults with and without intellectual disability. Individuals with intellectual disability performed at a lower level on most tasks compared to persons without intellectual disability, and the task performances were to a higher degree...

by the more advances in science and knowledge, the role of staff and human relations (hr) becomes more evident in the progress of the organization and the community. social capital and intellectual capital are the two subjects that in the recent two decades have been considered and their formative roles in organizational development and performance have been confirmed. this study examines the r...

This paper investigates the influence of Knowledge Management and Leveraging of Intellectual Capital on the performance of Telekom Malaysia. The study was conducted through questionnaire survey of 400 Telekom Malaysia (TM)’s executives from the TM’s headquarters and all the state business areas. The dependent variable is the performance of TM which includes the operating efficiency, business pe...

In this era of knowledge economics, the role of knowledge management is becoming increasingly important. Intellectual capital represents a collection of intangible assets known as knowledge assets, and practitioners often speculate on the relationship between knowledge management readiness and intellectual capital. To date, however, most research has focused on the link between knowledge manage...