Social skills are an important part of development, and deficits in this area have long-term impacts on a child. As a result, clinicians should include a measure of social skills as part of a comprehensive assessment. There are a few well-researched measures of social skills that are currently used, including the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY). The MESSY has been tra...

In every person's life, the time comes to take stock. The process is almost always painful and messy, but five practical strategies can help guide you and give your life new direction and meaning.

This paper describes a messy genetic algorithm for the automatic design of fuzzy logic controllers. The method is applied to adapt a wall following behavior behavior of a mobile robot.

Generally, the typical approach towards Earth System Modeling has been to couple existing models of different domains (land, ocean, atmosphere,. . .) offline, using output files of one model to provide input for the other. However, for a detailed study of the interactions and feedbacks between chemical, physical, and biological processes, 5 it is necessary to perform the coupling online. One st...

AIM There are six main types of granulomas in dermatopathology. The aim is to present and describe a seventh pattern of granuloma that we came across while studying biopsies of cutaneous leishmaniasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated 17 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis. A granulomatous response was identified in 14 of them. The features that were common to all of them were noted. These ...