results ninety (74.6%) patients were male and 33 (25.4%) were female. they were in the age range of 20-60 years old. fifty four (41.5%) patients had moderate social acceptance and 76 (58.5%) had high social acceptance scores. conclusions among the variables including age, gender, education, occupation, residential area, marital status, family history of hiv/aids, family history of psychiatric d...

In recent years, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are proposed to develop complex distributed systems based upon the agent paradigm. The implementation for such systems has usually the form of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Testing of MAS is a challenging task because these systems are often programmed to be autonomous and deliberative, and they operate in an open world, whi...

Two experiments examined mere acceptance effects in the Implicit Association Test (IAT). They tested whether accepting a stimulus as conforming to a rule produces responding consistent with positive attitude in the IAT. In Experiment 1, accepted stimuli were more easily categorized with pleasant personality characteristics than rejected stimuli; they were preferred according to the logic of the...

objective: acceptance and commitment therapy is a third generation behavioral therapy that uses mindfulness skills, acceptance and cognitive defusion in order to achieve psychological flexibility. the main purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on anxiety in patients with multiple sclerosis( ms). method: this research was carried out base...

We present a novel Metropolis-Hastings method for large datasets that uses small expected-size minibatches of data. Previous work on reducing the cost of MetropolisHastings tests yield variable data consumed per sample, with only constant factor reductions versus using the full dataset for each sample. Here we present a method that can be tuned to provide arbitrarily small batch sizes, by adjus...