Background: It is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. However, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. Since no study has been conducted in Iran on this topic, this qualitative study aimed to identify the factors influencing ethica...

This study has two objectives: 1) to carry out a comparative exploration of empathy and a set of socio-emotional variables in childhood and adolescence, analyzing gender differences; and 2) to analyze the relationship of empathy with social behaviour, sociometric choice of prosocial classmate, self-concept and capacity for analyzing negative emotions in children and in adolescents. The sample i...

This qualitative research within the project entitled "Multiprofessional Intervention and training for Ongoing Volunteer-based Community Health Programs in the Northeast of Thailand (MITV-NET) " was aimed at explaining changes of health behavior of community people in the Northeast after the intervention. The participants comprised 15 community volunteers and 27 villagers. Data were collected b...

Qualitative simulation is a key inference process in qualitative causal reasoning. However, the precise meaning of the different proposals and their relation with differential equations is often unclear. In this paper, we present a precise definition of qualitative structure and behavior descriptions as abstractions of differential equations and continuously differentiable functions. We present...

We present a paradigmatic example of a feedbackcontrolled system: an electric motor with sensor and controller. Diagnosis of this system is performed based on a qualitative model that reflects deviations of parameters and behavior from a fixed reference state. The hypothesis that has been examined in this case study is that detection of behavior discrepancies does not necessarily require simula...

Applications of qualitative reasoning to engineering design face a knowledge acquisition challenge. Designers are not fluent in qualitative modeling languages and techniques. To overcome this barrier, we perform qualitative simulation using models solely written in Modelica, a popular language for modeling hybrid systems. We define the relationship between the results of the Modelica and qualit...

ii ABSTRACf Qualitative reasoning predicts and explains the behavior of physical systems using the system's structure through modeling and simulation. There are several approaches to qualitative reasoning. Two of the most prominent software implementations are QPE (Qualitative Process Engine) by Forbus and QSIM (Qualitative Simulation) by Kuipers. A comparison of the two systems is done on the ...

Applications of qualitative reasoning to engineering design face a knowledge acquisition challenge. Designers are not fluent in qualitative modeling languages and techniques. To overcome this barrier, we perform qualitative simulation using models solely written in Modelica, a popular language for modeling hybrid systems. We define the relationship between the results of the Modelica and qualit...