Presence, the impression of being existent in artificially created places, is an important factor for achieving maximum experience in virtual environments (VEs) and hence in their use for experiments or therapy. To date, most clinical studies have used selfreport questionnaires or physiological measures to appraise the degree of presence. Some studies that have tested behavioral scales have use...

background : obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. one of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. education can improve the parents’ attitude and prevents from this big issue. this study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention...

We propose an integrated approach to generate test cases from UML sequence and activity diagrams. We first transform these UML diagrams into a graph. Then, we propose an algorithm to generate test scenarios from the constructed graph. Next, the necessary information for test case generation, such as method-activity sequence, associated objects, and constraint conditions are extracted from test ...

Behavioral responses to painful stimuli require peripheral sensory neurons called nociceptors. Electrophysiological studies show that most C-fiber nociceptors are polymodal (i.e., respond to multiple noxious stimulus modalities, such as mechanical and thermal); nevertheless, these stimuli are perceived as distinct. Therefore, it is believed that discrimination among these modalities only occurs...

Increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli produced by transient cervical nerve root compression is dependent on the severity of applied load. In addition, trauma in the nervous system induces local inflammation, Wallerian degeneration, and a host of other degenerative processes leading to axonal dysfunction. Here, axonal degeneration and inflammation were assessed following transient dorsal r...

Model-based software testing generally refers to test case selection and result evaluation based on a behavioral model of the target software. It may not, however, be possible to evaluate test results in some situations. For embedded software in a real-time environment, for instance, the results may only appear in a fraction of a second and cannot be observed by the tester. In this paper, we di...

introduction: in past decades, psychologists have emphasized the effects that family, cultural and social factors (specially, cognitive-behavioral approach and life skills) may have on mental health and on the treatment of mental disorders. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of confrontation cognitive-behavioral skills through group training on reducing anxiety and enhancing a...

Model-based testing is a technique to automatically generate test cases and oracles in order to test an implementation. A typical behavioral model used for model-based testing is a Labeled Transition System (LTS). However creating the LTS models needed for testing is a complex task, and especially when data is involved the number of states and thus the complexity will explode fast. Incorporatin...

This paper presents a method for automatic test case and test sequence generation from behavioral patterns. A behavioral pattern represents a class of behaviors of the environment with which the software under test interacts. Behavioral patterns are provided by the human tester to complement functional testing based on random test data generation. Thus, the tester can bring all her knowledge of...