Encounter in a Dark Room

The dark-room test.

a dot in the dark room psychological analysis of the short stories the dark room by sadeq hedayat and a dot on the map by sait faik abasıyanık

iran and turkey witnessed deep and broad social changes in an effort to modernization in the first half of 20th century. the social changes had wide-ranging consequences, including personal and psychological effects. the purpose of this paper is a psychoanalytic study of two short stories written by two prominent iranian and turkish writers, sadeq hedayat (1903-1951) and sait faik abasıyanık (1...

Investigating the Level of Readiness to Encounter Critical Situations in the Operating Room of Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital as a Trauma Center in Kermanshah in 2018

Introduction: Operating room crises, such as malignant hyperthermia or unexpected bleeding, are rare; however, they are serious threats to the patient’s life in these critical situations. According to global statistics, 234 million surgeries are performed annually in the world. At least 3 million of them are faced the crises in the operating room. The aim of this study is to investigate the lev...

The analysis of policy convergence, or: how to chase a black cat in a dark room

Political science research on policy convergence has largely remained inconclusive. While many studies found support for the convergence hypothesis, an almost equally large number of studies rejected it. Convergence thus could be a less general phenomenon than many theorists believe. This article identifies a second possible explanation. The variance approach, which dominates political science ...

Free-Energy Minimization and the Dark-Room Problem

Recent years have seen the emergence of an important new fundamental theory of brain function. This theory brings information-theoretic, Bayesian, neuroscientific, and machine learning approaches into a single framework whose overarching principle is the minimization of surprise (or, equivalently, the maximization of expectation). The most comprehensive such treatment is the "free-energy minimi...