Refreshingly realistic

Primary Health Care Strengthening Strategies in Iran: A Realistic Review

Background and Aim: The Primary Health Care (PHC) system is the most comprehensive, equitable and efficient way to promote people's health and social welfare by providing preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliatvie services in a place close to where people live and work. Iran's PHC system faces challenges that limit its effectiveness and efficiency. The aim of this study was to identify...

Realistic desires

Realism for agents with unconditional beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI agents) has been analyzed in modal logic. This paper provides a logical analysis of realism for agents with conditional beliefs and desires in a rule based approach analogous to Reiter’s default logic. We distinguish two types of realism, which we call ‘a priori’ and ‘a posteriori’ realism. We analyze whether these two n...

Realistic single-neuron modeling

ALL NEUROPHYSIOLOGISTS are modelers . They may explain the bursting behavior of a neuron in terms of voltage-sensitive calcium currents and a calcium-activated potassium conductance . They may conclude from a complex spike waveform that the cell has excitable dendrites . They may choose to voltage-clamp the cell body to study synaptic currents. Behind each of their experimental designs and inte...

Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists

Realistic human hand deformation

We present a new approach to realistic hand modeling and deformation with real-time performance. We model the underlying shape of a human hand by means of sweeps which follow a simplified skeleton. The resulting swept surfaces are blended, and an auxiliary surface is then bound to the swept representation in the palm region. In the areas of this palm-control surface where bulges occur in certai...