introduction : adverse health effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ets) among non-smokers have been studied occasionally in developing countries. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of exposure to ets on outcome in pregnancy methods: in this descriptive and analytical study 600 non-smoking women delivering a singleton live baby were studied in delivery room in haja...

objectives: specific language impaired children, despite being normal in cognitive and neurological characteristics, and also normal levels of hearing, experience multiple problems in syntax comprehension. this study compared the passive comprehension as one of syntactic structures in persian-speaking typically developing children and specific language impaired children. methods: 10 children wi...

introduction: the passive sentence structure is one of the most interesting syntactic structures on language development. studies in some languages have indicated that comprehension of this syntactic structure takes place late in the language acquisition process. therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the comprehension of active and passive structures in 48-59- and 60-71-month-o...

The paper discusses proposed Near Field Communication (NFC) passive antenna design for circular and round shaped wearable items like rings, watches wristbands. Several NFC tags were available in the market, which had different antennas, incorporated into them. However, these designed with specific shape diameter could not fit most of wristbands etc. In order to overcome this problem, a customiz...

In the context of a “beauty contest” coordination game (in which payoffs 1 depend on the quadratic distance of actions from an unobserved state variable and 2 from the average action) players choose how much costly attention to pay to vari3 ous informative signals. Each signal has an underlying accuracy (how precisely it 4 identifies the state) and a clarity (how easy it is to understand). The ...

This research examines how the fit between employees moral development and the ethical work climate of their organization affects employee attitudes. Person–organization fit was assessed by matching individuals’ level of cognitive moral development with the ethical climate of their organization. The influence of P–O fit on employee attitudes was assessed using a sample of 304 individuals from 7...

Although predictive coding may offer a computational principle that unifies perception and action, states with different directions of fit are involved (with indicative and imperative contents, respectively). Predictive states are adjusted to fit the world in the course of perception, but in the case of action the corresponding states act as a fixed target towards which the agent adjusts the wo...

A long running challenge in both large and small organizations has been aligning information systems services with business needs. Good alignment is assumed to lead to good business results, but there is a need for good instruments to assess strategic alignment and business success in practice. Based on existing information management theories, we develop the I-Fit model and the I-Fit tool. The...

Ecological surveys of coral reefs mostly rely on visual data collected by human observers. Although new monitoring tools are emerging, their specific advantages should be identified to optimise simultaneous use. Based the goodness-of-fit linear models, we compared potential passive acoustics and environmental for predicting structure reef fish assemblages in different biogeographic settings. Bo...