History is stating that first services ever created in Armenia are started in XI century in the island of Lake Sevan. As part of the Church offered services they created special homes for disabled people with mentally disturbed persons included. During the Soviet area psychiatric condition was considered as a stigma among general population and treatment was mainly based on biological approache...

This paper studies the notion of ability and its relation with the notion of action in a multi-agent context. It introduces the distinction between two notions respectively called “theoretical ability” and “ability”. The main contribution of this paper is a model of these notions in the Situation Calculus.

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) have promising potential for supporting socializing and learning in a university context because of their capability to provide a social arena where students and teachers can meet overcoming the barriers of the physical world [10]. In addition, the virtual space provides a dynamic and flexible environment where learners, especially distributed ones, ...

dada gorgood stories can be considered as parts of cultural history of the great tribes, turks (oghooz). these stories generally reflects the social situation of society in which as the result of tradition dominance on social affairs, it is located among the primitive societies with mechanical solidarity and in other words, among the communities with the natural will government. dada gorgood st...

The use of online Social Media is increasingly popular amongst emergency services to support Situational Awareness (i.e. accurate, complete and real-time information about an event). Whilst many software solutions have been developed to monitor and analyse Social Media, little attention has been paid on how to visually design for Situational Awareness for this large-scale data space. We describ...

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In this paper, we argue that most current social information ltering approaches may bene t from more seriously taking into account the peculiarities of human cognition and human social behavior since current approaches only consider de-contextualized ratings. Social ltering systems exploit ratings provided by users in order to compute recommendations for other users. Typically, these ratings ar...

16. After years of stagnation, economic growth in the Region resumed: as of 2007, nearly onethird of the countries had growth rates in excess of 6%. The per capita gross national income (GNI) in the Region (2004 data) is among the highest in the world. While the average income in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is US$ 7,811, in some of its subregions—notably the Latin Caribbean, the Andea...

The present investigation examined how three salient features of narrative thinking (situation model construction, linguistic concreteness, and perspective-taking) influenced the social inference process. Results of four experiments indicated that compared with those given other objectives, perceivers given narrative objectives were: (a) more likely to make situation rather than trait attributi...

In distributed work environments, collaborators often lack situation awareness, which can be described as knowledge about what is happening in an individual’s work environment. Thus, information systems are needed to support situation awareness between distributed workers. However, despite its relevance, the concept lacks the clear theoretical understanding needed for a rigorous specification a...