In addition to attention to natural light as a renewable, costless and environment-friendly source of energy in the late 20th century, numerous studies have been conducted into the effect of natural light on human being’s soul and body and all such studies reiterate the undeniable role of natural lighting on people’s behavior, attitudes, and efficiency. However, in spite of the awareness of the...

quality of life of mothers of children with special needs: a qualitative study    yaghmaei f [1] *, sahar m [2]     received: 29 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013   abstract:   background & aims: quality of life (qol) is important in today's society. by qol, the people’s experience of life could be measured. quality of life of mothers with children with special needs is the focus of this ...

PURPOSE This article aims to review research measures and findings related to physical environments of assisted living (AL) according to multiple conceptual perspectives--ecological, cultural, and Maslovian hierarchy. DESIGN AND METHODS A literature and research review was undertaken with two foci: performance measures for physical environments, and environmental research findings themselves....

INTRODUCTION Obesity is especially prevalent among children with special needs. Both lack of physical activity and unhealthful eating are major contributing factors. The objective of our study was to investigate barriers to physical activity among these children. METHODS We surveyed parents of the 171 children attending Vista Del Mar School in Los Angeles, a nonprofit school serving a socioec...

Increasing numbers of physical therapists are providing evaluation and therapy in their own private-practice clinics. Their move out of the hospital setting has reduced their access to the sources of information designed to support clinical and practice-management decision making. The author designed a survey to determine how often physical therapists in private practice in Vermont use seven so...

Questionnaires returned by 328 physical therapists were analyzed to 1) establish a role definition for public school therapists and 2) determine the educational needs of therapists preparing for public school service. The therapists ranked 15 skills in importance to the role of the public school physical therapist and in urgency of their need to develop each skill. They also indicated which edu...

BACKGROUND McDowell CHOICES (Coordinated Health Opportunities Involving Communities, Environments, and Schools) Project is a county wide endeavor aimed at increasing opportunities for physical activity (PA) in McDowell County, West Virginia (WV). A comprehensive needs-assessment laid the foundation of the project. METHODS During the 6 month needs assessment, multiple sources of data were coll...

The Emulab network testbed provides an environment in which researchers and educators can evaluate networked systems. Available to the public since 2000, Emulab is used by thousands of experimenters at hundreds of institutions around the world, and the research conducted on it has lead to hundreds of publications. The original Emulab facility at the University of Utah has been replicated at doz...

The goal of an Information Retrieval (IR) system is to predict which information objects can help users in satisfying their information needs, i.e. predict relevance. Different sources of evidence can be exploited for this purpose. These sources are the properties of the different entities involved when retrieving and accessing information, where examples of entities include the information obj...