Human beings share many cognitive skills with their nearest primate relatives, especially those for dealing with the physical world of objects (and categories and quantities of objects) in space and their causal interrelations. But humans are, in addition, biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Specifically, humans have evolved unique motivations and cogniti...

Children with visual impairments (CWVI) generally perform poorer in gross motor skills when compared with their sighted peers. This study examined the influence of age, sex, and severity of visual impairment upon locomotor and object control skills in CWVI. Participants included 100 CWVI from across the United States who completed the Test of Gross Motor Development II (TGMD-II). The TGMD-II co...

We describe research in progress on a dialogue system that simulates social conversation between animated characters representing a person with Alzheimer's Disease and his caregiver. The goal of the research is to enable caregivers to practice techniques to improve their assistive conversational skills. These skills are expected to reduce caregiver stress and to improve the quality of life of p...

BACKGROUND Critical care nurse communication training has largely been limited to didactic materials, interactive training for nurse supervisors, or brief participatory learning programs within the context of comprehensive end-of-life care educational seminars. Preliminary evidence suggests that an interactive approach can also be effective in communication skills training for intensive care un...

The paper entails the statistical correlation of the investigations carried out for the sales and profit prediction and analysis by persons of different mindsets in case of strategic uncertainty . The paper by virtue of statistical and fuzzy logic based justifications has pointed out certain discovered facts in this perspective. The normal , optimistic , pessimistic and fickleminded based indiv...

Becoming numerate is considered as one of the fundamental skills needed in the modern technology-driven society. The latest OECD (2013) report states that âĂIJThe way we live and work has changed profoundly âĂŞ and so has the set of skills we need to participate fully in and benefit from our hyper-connected societies and increasingly knowledge-based economies.âĂIJ The societies invest a lot on ...

This article presents the assumption that the 21st century will have characteristics that are important to occupational therapists and the persons they serve. These characteristics include increases in chronicity, knowledge of human purpose, complexity of living, emphasis on personal power, awareness of demands from the environments where persons live and work, and a new conceptualization of he...

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