In cerebral cortex, ongoing activity absent a stimulus can resemble stimulus-driven activity in size and structure. In particular, spontaneous activity in cat primary visual cortex (V1) has structure significantly correlated with evoked responses to oriented stimuli. This suggests that, from unstructured input, cortical circuits selectively amplify specific activity patterns. Current understand...

Introduction: Nowadays, the main focus of modern researches in the field of ADHD has been on the area of comorbid disorders and reducing their symptoms. In this regard, cognitive-behavioral therapies have tried to reduce the symptoms by using methods such as self-control, problem-solving, and social skills. Given the important role of the family, the present study investigated the pre-assumptio...

OBJECTIVE There have been contradictory findings on the relationship between Socioeconomic Status (SES) and child development although SES is associated with child development outcomes. The present study intended to define the relationship between SES and child development in Tehran kindergartens, Iran. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross-sectional survey studied 1036 children aged 36-60 month, in...

Conceptual modelling (CM) involves analysts working with domain experts to create a representation of a domain called a conceptual model. We address two issues in CM research. The first deals with the semantics that conceptual models convey. We propose guidelines for how analysts can reflect the semantics of a “role” in a conceptual model using the extended entity relationship (EER) method. Rol...

This work presents the application in medical practice of relationship rules derived from the theory of attachment which was first formulated in the fifties by John Bowlby, a British psychiatrist, and further developed by the American developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth. This theory is considered to be one of the more outstanding achievements of psychology in the 20th century. Attachment ...

Analysis of coordinated interpersonal timing has become an important tool for the study of infant-adult, peer, and marital interactions. Past research suggests that social coordination is informative about the quality of the caregiver-child social relationship. Does infant experience of certain types of coordination and pattern in early social interactions with caregivers predict better cogniti...

Introduction: Child abuse has been defined as allowing others to cause physical, emotional, and sexual harm, and also physical and emotional pain to a child. The present study was a report on a case of physical and sexual child abuse accompanied by traumatic brain injury (TBI) referred to an emergency department.Case Presentation: A 4-year-old child was rushed into an emergency department...

A method for obtaining optimized relational representations of database conceptual schemas in an extended entity-relationship model is first proposed. The method incorporates and generalizes a familiar heuristics to obtain good relational representations and also produces, for each relational structure, an explanation indicating which concepts it represents. Then, a redesign method that, given ...

Much of the work on automatic user interface (UI) generation has met with limited success because of the added load on the human designer to use specialized scripts for UI specification. In this research in progress, we propose a methodology applicable to database driven systems that a) automatically infers a draft interface directly from an extended entity relationship (EER) model schema and b...