introduction: estrogen is one of the gonadal hormones that has multiple beneficial actions in central nervous system and involves in learning and memory. alzheimer's disease (ad) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that impairs patient memory. the human nucleus basalis of meynert (nbm) is severely affected in alzheimer's disease. so in this study the effect of peripheral (intr...

acceptance and commitment therapy (act) is a new development within behavioral therapy. its goal is to promote psychological flexibility. numerous studies show that suffering results when people attempt to avoid their inner experiences (experiential avoidance). this experiential avoidance often leads to rigid and inflexible behavior that also leads them to compromise their goals and what is imp...

objective: based on young’s schema therapy model, three coping styles i.e. avoidance, surrender, and overcompensation is utilized against schema activation. confronting with events, the type of dominant coping style affects general health. the aim of this study was to predict general health status (mental and physical) based on the type of dominant coping styles.   method: for this purpose, sho...

The current study examined the role of maternal behavior and toddlers' emotion regulation strategies in the development of children's sustained attention abilities. Participants for this study included 447 children (232 girls) obtained from three different cohorts participating in a larger ongoing longitudinal study. When the children were 2 years of age, mothers brought their children to the l...

We extend a dynamic approach of behavior generation to the representation of spatial information. Two levels of dynamics integrate dead-reckoning, dominant far from home bases, and piloting, dominant near home bases. When the view-based piloting system recognizes a home base, visual place information re-calibrates the dead-reckoning system, inverting the hierarchical ordering of the two dynamic...

This master’s project addresses the obstacle avoidance problem in difficult scenarios in three-dimensional workspaces. The main contribution of this project is the theoretical extension of the ObstacleRestriction Method (ORM) in two dimensions to work in 3D workspaces. This master’s thesis describes a reactive obstacle avoidance technique to drive a robot in dense, cluttered and complex environ...

We are developing techniques for safeguarding the remote operation of lunar rovers. This paper presents two complementary techniques: One, based on stereo vision, evaluates the traversability of paths the rover could follow, and produces preferences for steering directions. The other, based on laser proximity sensing, looks for hazards immediately in front of the rover, commanding an emergency ...

Evolutionary ecology and developmental biology have converged on the key insight that phenotypic expression is powerfully conditioned by environmental information. Plant ecological development (eco-devo) aims to firstly, determine precisely how plants perceive and respond to the varying environmental conditions they encounter in the real world and secondly, understand the ecological and evoluti...