background and purpose: hemodialysis is the most efficient treatment of end-stage renal disease (esrd), which increases patients’ life expectancy. however, it can cause various adverse physical and mental side effects. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of emotional intelligence training on anxiety of hemodialysis patients in khorramabad, iran. methods: this experimental study w...

Intelligence By CYRIL BURT, M.A., D.Sc. Psychologists are often asked for a good test of intelligence to be used with adults. Of those at present available none is wholly satisfactory. The harder problems in the Terman-Binet scale sound too much like a teacher's crossquestioning in school : " If two pencils cost fivepence, how many pencils can you buy for fifty pence?"* On the other hand, the b...

A rtificial intelligence (Al) has long been the topic of university research. However, only recently has this work begun providing usable Al system development tools allowing applications of Al in other research areas. This growing availability has fostered a recent trend toward applying Al techniques to improve CAD tools used to design and test integrated circuits. Both industry and universiti...

The notion of a universal intelligence test has been recently advocated as a means to assess humans, non-human animals and machines in an integrated, uniform way. While the main motivation has been the development of machine intelligence tests, the mere concept of a universal test has many implications in the way human intelligence tests are understood, and their relation to other tests in comp...

Intelligence tests are widely assumed to measure maximal intellectual performance, and predictive associations between intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and later-life outcomes are typically interpreted as unbiased estimates of the effect of intellectual ability on academic, professional, and social life outcomes. The current investigation critically examines these assumptions and finds evidenc...

1. On an average they rated 8 percentile points above the average for high school seniors. 2. All except one came from the upper ninety per cent of high school seniors. Nearly two thirds of the nurses rated above the average for high school seniors. 3. They rated 13 percentile points above the Indiana high school senior girls who reported nursing to be their choice of life work. 4. On an averag...

The Test of Emotional Intelligence (TIE) is a new ability scale based on a theoretical model that defines emotional intelligence as a set of skills responsible for the processing of emotion-relevant information. Participants are provided with descriptions of emotional problems, and asked to indicate which emotion is most probable in a given situation, or to suggest the most appropriate action. ...