background: pre-pregnancy care is considered as the services assessing and reducing the pregnancy risks through providing medical care and mental support. therefore, a pre-pregnancy counseling protocol was prepared based on a series of guidelines. this study aimed to determine the effect of the protocol on pregnancy and labor indices. methods: this was a four-phase field study conducted in four...

Annett (2001) has made an in-depth critique of subjectivity in science, concentrating not only on those rating scales which are extensively used in ergonomics, but also the very philosophy of subjectivism itself. The present authors take this critique and use it to reappraise their own interpretation of mental workload, a key concept popularly assessed by subjective measurement. Having recently...

Psychology studies have shown that one of the keys to human teamwork is the ability of teammates to anticipate the needs of others and proactively take appropriate action using an overlapping shared mental model (SMM). This paper introduces an implemented multi-agent architecture – CAST, which enables a team of agents to establish a computational shared mental model. Using such a SMM, agents ca...

Abstract This research explores the extent to which campaign factors may influence success of donation-based crowdfunding (DCF) promoted online with social purposes. Factors that explain fundraising campaigns for causes are firstly identified from previous literature and linked DCF through a set hypotheses: disclosure, imagery, updating, spreadability. Following, their explanatory capacity is m...