snoring can occur alone or it may be the presenting feature of obstructive sleep apnea and other common chronic conditions. in our study, we aimed to estimate the prevalence and correlates of snoring in adolescent students in tehran, iran. a cross-sectional study was designed and students were selected from 20 secondary and high schools, in 5 different zones in tehran in order to have a represe...

staff job satisfaction is very important for assessments leading to organizational devel-opment. job satisfaction is a general attitude of workers towards with their job and it de-pends on the sum of all factors in organizational relations. the correlates of organiza-tional leadership style such as process of leadership, motivating factors, communication, process of decision making, and charact...

This paper outlines the way in which the NCC multimedia package 'W orId of Number' was used as the focus for a group activity with a Year 9 mathematics class. The classroom research was carried out in a South Yorkshire comprehensive school during the Spring Term of 1994. The class was engaged in work which involved graphs of relationships and close attention was paid to relationships between di...

A function is non-cooperative computable [NCC] if honest agents can compute it by reporting truthfully their private inputs, while unilateral deviations by the players are not beneficial: if a deviation from truth revelation can mislead other agents, then the deviator might end up with a wrong result. Previous work provided full characterization of the boolean functions which are non-cooperativ...

The first time trial of the IEEE Spectrum/Computer Amazing MicroMouse Maze Contest brought large audiences and CBS affiliate KNXT of Los Angeles to the IEEE booth at the NCC's Personal Computing Festival. Six mice actually attempted to run IEEE's maze, but only two successfully found their way through it. However, contest manager (and emcee) Roger Allan noted that he has received word of over 5...

I argue for a manipulationist-mechanistic framework for content-NCC research in the case of visual consciousness (Bechtel 2008; Neisser 2012). Reference to mechanisms is common in the NCC research. Furthermore, recent developments in non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (NIBS) lend support to a manipulationist standpoint. The crucial question is to understand what is changed after manipula...

Movie watching vs resting Finger tapping vs resting Connections Changes p-value (uncorre cted) Connections Changes p-value (uncorr ected) NCC MS-V Decrease 0.012 MS-V Decrease 0.039 NPC MS-V Decrease 0.016 MS-V Decrease 0.002 D-MS Decrease 0.027 L-MS Increase 0.016 Table.1 Observed changes associated with different brain states. A Multivariate Approach Reveals Interactions of Brain Functional N...

language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

Normal form games are nearly compact and continuous (NCC) if they can be understood as games played on strategy spaces that are dense subsets of the strategy spaces of larger compact games with jointly continuous payoffs. There are intrinsic algebraic, measure theoretic, functional analysis, and finite approximability characterizations of NCC games. NCC games have finitely additive equilibria, ...

Background Endothelial function (EF) reflects the balance between vasodilatory and vasoconstrictive factors produced by (or acting on) the innermost lining of blood vessels. Endothelial dysfunction, an imbalance between these factors that favors vasoconstriction, has been associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease. However, the influence of race/ethnicity and glycemic status on a...