This paper provides an update on the features of SLAB, a software-based real-time virtual acoustic environment (VAE) rendering system designed for use in the personal computer environment. SLAB is being developed as a tool for the study of spatial hearing. The SLAB software is being released to the research community under a free-public license for non-commercial use. It is our hope that resear...

Background: For medical students, the selection of a specialty is one of the most critical decisions to be made. On a personal level, it determines lifetime career achievements and, for the community, it directly affects the outcome of public health programs. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors were more important among Iranian residents when considering a specialty. Methods:...

The purpose of this research was to study the effects of four personal and social variables including the age, literacy, job experience and size of herd on different variables such as implementing of managerial strategies in transition period, relevant costs of these strategies, average production per head and gross income of milk sale per head. For this purpose all required information were co...

to determine the factors affecting the acceptation of rice insurance in sari township a number of 90 farmers (45 assured and 45 not assured) were sampled. the information consisted of personal (age, size of family, activity experiment, damage experiment, and non-farm income); social (studies level, agrarian regimes, locality); and geography (farm size, distance between farm to insurance broker)...

BACKGROUND Unhealthy weight control behaviours (UWCB) among adolescents have significant health and weight consequences. The current longitudinal study aimed to identify personal and socio-environmental predictors of initiation or persistence of adolescent UWCB, in order to inform development of programs aimed at both preventing and stopping UWCB. METHODS A diverse sample included 1106 boys a...

background: the key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. there is a list of policy options for the purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified strategies us...

impulse buying behavior is one of main concepts in marketing. it is affected on various factors such as cultural factors, psychological factors, personal factors and positional factors. buying can be done because of different reasons (including of needing a production) and this fact aids marketers to better understand consumers’ behavior. impulse buying is one of pervasive aspect of consumer be...