This issue of the journal focuses on studies undertaken in adolescent populations around the world. Roger Hughes’ ‘In this issue’ piece highlights key findings in some of these studies. Particularly challenging is the persistence of undernutrition alongside overnutrition in South African children. The 2005 National Food Consumption Survey of South Africa results were presented at the South Afri...

This study was aimed at describing the mediating role of resiliency in the relationship between family functioning and mental health in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This descriptive research was a correlational study. A total of 225 individuals were chosen by simple random sampling technique from type 2 diabetic patients presented to diabetes care centers in Kermanshah in 2014 in Ira...

Commentary Recent investigations of children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) have reliably demonstrated that CAE is not a syndrome free of cognitive or behavioral comorbidity. Particularly problematic is attentional impairment, not only because of attention's effects on cognitive and school performance but also due to its behavioral effects such as attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome...

with respect to major changes which have been made in the viewpoints and functions of students’ organization in the past few decades, it seems that today students’ activities along with considering national propagation and information (by students) is taking practical steps towards establishments to overcome students’ problems as well as paying attention to future employment of students. this p...

Adaptive autonomous agents have to learn about the effects of their actions so as to be able to improve their performance and adapt to long term changes. The problem of correlating actions with changes in sensor data is O(n 2 ) and therefore computationally infeasible for any non-trivial application. We propose to make this problem more manageable by using focus of attention. In particular, we ...

Processing of multi-word expressions (MWEs) is a known problem for any natural language processing task. Even neural machine translation (NMT) struggles to overcome it. This paper presents results of experiments on investigating NMT attention allocation to the MWEs and improving automated translation of sentences that contain MWEs in English→Latvian and English→Czech NMT systems. Two improvemen...

Artistic painting of human portraits are more challenging than landscapes or flowers. Challenges are eye and nose areas where we need to avoid alterations from their natural appearance. Shades or darkness around eyes, or shininess at the nose tip may negatively impact the rendering result if not properly dealt with. The proposed computerized method attempts to be adaptive to those sensitive are...