the purpose of this study was to design a valid questionnaire to the iranian culture for dementia diagnosis and more specifically in its early stage.a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 in memory clinic of roozbeh hospital and iranian alzheimer association in tehran in 2012. among 235 subjects, there were 72 patients with alzheimer's disease (ad), 137 patients with other types of demen...

Change-detection tasks reveal that infants' ability to bind color to location in visual short-term memory (VSTM) develops rapidly: Seven-month-old infants, but not 6-month-old infants, detect that successive arrays of 3 objects are different if they contain the same colors in different locations (Oakes et al., 2006). Here we test a counterintuitive consequence of the hypothesis that six-month-o...

This study aims to find out how improve learning outcomes about rights, obligations and responsibilities as citizens by using videos for students, whether the use of video media can increase students' understanding citizens. used is classroom action research (CAR). method carried through 4 stages, namely planning, implementation, observation reflection. The results showed that average value obt...

the benefits of textual input enhancement in the acquisition of linguistic forms have produced mixed results in sla literature. the present study investigates the effects of textual enhancement on adult foreign language intake of two english linguistic forms-subjunctive mood and inversion structures-to explore the role of the type of linguistic items in input enhancement studies. it also invest...

Abstract Background Social and health care educators are crucial to educating competent professionals that prepared work in a rapidly changing society. Previous studies have primarily assessed educators' continuing professional development from single perspective. It would be important gauge perceptions about their multiple dimensions identify the strengths weaknesses of current learning proces...

Background: Hospitals, especially their emergency departments, are among the first health systems affected by accidents and disasters. Because of its nature obligation to provide highest quality services, this department should have protocols for coordination interaction with other departments be fully prepared in critical situations. This study aims evaluate disaster preparedness Emergency Dep...

This paper proposes a novel framework to support the generation of strategies for multi-criteria long-term improvement. It can be applied general preference models but it is illustrated in this article on Multi-Attribute Value Theory model. The contributions literature are twofold. Firstly, addresses issue resistance change that may arise during implementation strategy. constrains step improvem...