Objective. Touch is one of the first strong positive senses that develop in neonate. Therapeutic touch could be considered as a complementary treatment in Neonate intensive care units (NICU). Methods. This quasi-experimental study was conducted to compare the effect of Yakson and GHT on behavioral reaction of preterm infants hospitalized in NICU in south-east of Iran. 90 preterm infants partici...

Food waste from households contributes the greatest proportion to total food waste in developed countries. Therefore, food waste reduction requires an understanding of the socio-economic (contextual and behavioural) factors that lead to its generation within the household. Addressing such a complex subject calls for sound methodological approaches that until now have been conditioned by the lar...

Infantile colic is a symptomatic disorder characterized by paroxysms of fussing, agitation or crying, lasting more than three hours a day and occurring more than three days a week for at least three weeks [1]. In addition to this definition, diagnostic criteria of Rome III for functional gastrointestinal disorder defines infantile colic as a condition that includes all of the following symptoms...

Infantile colic is a symptomatic disorder characterized by paroxysms of fussing, agitation or crying, lasting more than three hours a day and occurring more than three days a week for at least three weeks [1]. In addition to this definition, diagnostic criteria of Rome III for functional gastrointestinal disorder defines infantile colic as a condition that includes all of the following symptoms...

Despite their flat, semantics-free structure, ontology identifiers are often given names or labels corresponding to natural language words or phrases which are very dense with information as to their intended referents. We argue that by taking advantage of this information density, NLG systems applied to ontologies can guide the choice and construction of sentences to express useful ontological...

In recent years, 3D face recognition has obtained much attention. Using 2D face image as probe and 3D face data as gallery is an alternative method to deal with computation complexity, expensive equipment and fussy pretreatment in 3D face recognition systems. In this paper we propose a learning based 2D-3D face matching method using the CCA to learn the mapping between 2D face image and 3D face...

Children who are abused have been said to have more illnesses than children who are not maltreated. The relationship between abuse and illness has been hypothesized to function in 2 ways: (1) that abuse precedes the illnesses and children from abusive homes become ill because of the damaging environment they endure, or, conversely, (2) that the illnesses precede the abuse, with the fussy behavi...

The goals and transformation of sustainable urban development require fundamental innovation; however, innovation is a cyclical process, the paradigm itself needs to be dramatically transformed, all key elements need coordinated with each other achieve outputs. Based on this, this paper uses absorptive capacity theory construct model relationships between acquisition dimension, digestion conver...