Child development research has established the importance of support and services for children with special needs and their families at very early stages after the diagnosis. These services offered in the form of the early intervention programmes. There is a dearth of early intervention programmes for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families in Iran. A parent based early inter...

As an important issue of machine learning, clustering receives much care in recent years. Among all clustering approaches, most of them conduct clustering operations on overall data. That is, they learn label information from all data. That comes across critical challenge in times of high-sized datasets. This paper proposes a novel Three-phase Labeling algorithm (TPL) based on SVC to overcome t...

For the early phase of conceptualization in the architectural design a case-based retrieval approach for finding building designs that have similar semantic and topological structures to a currently created one, can provide a helpful tool for inspiration and comparison of architect’s own ideas with the solutions available in a case base of previously created designs. The approach presented in t...

Stimulated IVF cycles are associated with luteal phase defect. In order to overcome this, different doses, durations and types of luteal phase support (LPS) have been evaluated. There is still no agreement regarding the optimal supplementation scheme. The aim of this paper is to assess the past and the current clinical practices of luteal supplementation in IVF. The databases of Medline and Pub...

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been considered a promising abstraction principle to reduce the problem of code tangling and make software structure clean and configurable. This paper addresses the aspect support in the design level while it has been focused mainly in the implementation/coding phase. We propose an extension to Unified Modeling Language (UML) to support aspects properly wi...

Requirements are usually understood as stating what a system is supposed to do, as opposed to how it should do it. However, understanding the organizational context and rationales (the “Whys”) that lead up to systems requirements can be just as important for the ongoing success of the system. Requirements modelling techniques can be used to help deal with the knowledge and reasoning needed in t...

Studies have shown locomotor adaptation of the ankle to assistive torques, but the ability of the knee to adapt to assistive forces has not yet been explored. Understanding how humans modulate knee joint kinematics during gait could be valuable for designing assistive devices for stroke patients. In this study we examined how healthy subjects adapt to knee flexion torque assistance during gait....

The results of engineering analysis are often used as basic parameters for design optimisation process. However, the existing commercial software for engineering analyses still fails to provide adequate expert advice in post-processing phase of the analysis. Thus, the selection of appropriate design steps to improve the structure still depends mostly on the designer's knowledge and experience. ...

Requirements are usually understood as stating what a system is supposed to do, as opposed to how it should do it. However, understanding the organizational context and rationales (the “Whys”) that lead up to systems requirements can be just as important for the ongoing success of the system. Requirements modelling techniques can be used to help deal with the knowledge and reasoning needed in t...