Background: Food environment plays a major role in health outcomes. A growing interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) has led to its application in the improvement of the food environment. This scoping review aims to compile and map the literature and identify key strategies used for increasing community participation capacity in the food environment policymaking process.    ...

Introduction: According to the World Health Organisation ‘participation’, meaning involvement in everyday occupations, has a positive influence on health and wellbeing and lack thereof can lead to negative health consequences. Occupational therapy scholars believe this phenomenon needs exploring with attention to context. Variability is apparent in the way participation has bee...

In a mobile setting, user preferences vary in different contexts. Advances in mobile technologies have made the collection of user context information feasible, and as a result, the context-aware mobile recommender system field has been formed. Although there exist several different approaches to incorporating context into the recommendation process, context-aware recommendations are still diff...

conclusions in conclusion, toxicological studies showed that, although contamination level in caspian sea fishes was relatively low, the present status might pose a risk about food chain contamination. results the review showed that nine studies were recorded in databases about pesticide residues in caspian sea fish tissues. these studies reported that there is limited evidence of organochlorin...

Recent randomized experiments have found that seemingly “small” socialpsychological interventions in education—that is, brief exercises that target students’ thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in and about school—can lead to large gains in student achievement and sharply reduce achievement gaps even months and years later. These interventions do not teach students academic content but instead targ...

This report reviews the state of the art research in Dialogue Management (DM) Systems. Dialogue systems have been around since the 1960’s, the best known are conversation programs such as Eliza (Weizenbaum 1966) and Parry (Colby 1973). The approaches we describe are categorised as follows: finite state/dialogue grammars, plan-based and collaborative; however, this division is not perfect, since...

purpose: between 1379-1380 in the library and information science master in tehran and tarbiat modares universities, 81 theses has been defended that 78 theses has the literature review section. the purpose of this study is to review the extent of subject relevance between theses and their literature reviews. methodology: for fulfillment of the purpose, the titles of 78 theses and 1092 their li...

Background The Government of Romania commissioned international technical assistance to help unpacking the causes of arrears in selected public hospitals. Emphases were placed on the governance-related determinants of the hospital performance in the context of the Romanian health system.   Methods The assessment was structured around a public hospital governance framewor...