meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

For years, smart appliances used general-purpose electronic devices, such as microcontroller units (MCU) and digital signal processing (DSP) blocks, to manage functionalities such as the user interface and motor control. The performance of these devices is limited because these are made with generic hardware, leaving software as the only method to create application-specific functions by the ho...

BACKGROUND This review looks at ways to increase physical activity, by walking and other sports and home activities, to reach the daily 10,000 steps goal. It also looks at a number of issues associated with achieving the daily step goal, such as considerations in walking, step counting and physical activity. METHODS The review is based on MEDLINE (1982-2006) and Google searches using keywords...

The so-called activity-based approach to analysis of human interaction with the social and physical environments dates back to the original time-space geography works of Hägerstrand and his colleagues at the Lund School in 1970. Despite their obvious theoretical attractiveness, activity-based approaches to understanding and predicting travel behavior have suffered from the absence of an analyti...

The focus of this paper is on the demonstration that some rather well-known networkbased formulations in operations research, that have heretofore largely gone unnoticed in activity-based travel research, offer a potentially powerful technique for advancing the general development of the activity-based modeling approach. These formulations can provide an analytical framework that unifies the co...