PURPOSE This study was conducted to assess predictor variables of husbands in multicultural families and examine the relationship among variables after setting up a hypothetical model including influencing factors, so as to provide a framework necessary for developing nursing interventions of domestic violence. METHODS The participants were 260 husbands in multicultural families in four citie...

The paper describes how a formal model of selfadaptation [Angeline, 1995] can be expressed in terms of Cultural Algorithms. A particular form of self-adaptation concerns the shifting of the representational bias used to described the set of learned beliefs within the Cultural Algorthms. A version of Cultural Algorithms with the ability to shift its representational bias was used to solve the Ro...

We describe some simulations that compare cultural transmission between and within generations (inter-generational vs intra-generational transmission) in populations of embodied agents controlled by neural networks. Our results suggest that intra-generational transmission has the role of adding variability to the evolutionary process and that this function seems particularly useful when the pop...

Introduction and aim. Determining the needs of children hospitalized for treatment is important in terms identifying who are more at risk developing support systems child family. We aimed to test validity reliability Turkish questionnaire (NCQ) cross-culturally adapt it language. Material methods. This cross-sectional study was conducted using a total 160 aged 5-16 years were between May 2021 2...