Being an exchange student exhibits significant benefits beyond the educational scope, with regard to interacting a different cultural environment, learning accept diversity, acquiring local language, and developing self-confidence. In this light, each year International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) provides opportunity approximately 15,000 medical students carry out clin...

In 1980, 120 cases with late-life migrainous accompaniments resembling transient ischemic attacks were presented. In the present paper, 85 further cases examined in the past five years are analyzed. The findings support the concept advanced previously. In general, the cases are divided into the same categories: visual--21 cases, visual and paresthesias--6, visual and speech disturbance--2, visu...

We develop and test a model that suggests that expectations influence subjective usability and emotional experiences and, thereby, behavioral intentions to continue use and to recommend the service to others. A longitudinal study of 165 real-life users examined the proposed model in a proximity mobile payment domain at three time points: before use, after three weeks of use, and after six weeks...

background: borderline personality disorder (bpd) is a chronic condition that warrants further empirical investigation. the aim of this research was investigated prediction of bpd symptomatology relay on recent life experience. method and materials: data for the current study was collected from students of shiraz university. sample consisted of 120 undergraduate students. the ages of the sample...

This paper is partly a response to the ongoing debate in the game world about whether games can be art, and partly an excerpt from my Ph.D. research. I aim to offer some insights in the cognitive experiences gamers have while playing hopefully useful to both designers and scholars. I will argue that an art experience is a particular kind of cognitive experience, namely a distinctive type of ima...

While discussing a metaphysical argument for postmortem survival, David Ray Griffin says that near death experiences (NDE's) offer "impressive evidence" for human survival of death. [1] Griffin asks his readers to examine the data "with the presupposition that it might be genuine." [2] After one page Griffin wraps up his discussion with the modest claim that the evidence may "lead one to conclu...