Over the last ve years, new voxel-based approaches have allowed important leaps in multimodal image registration, notably due to the increasing use of information-theoretic similarity measures. Their wide success has led to the progressive abandon of measures using standard image statistics (mean and variance). Until now, such measures have essentially been based on heuristics. In this paper, w...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their procedural knowledge in Iranian language institutes and universities. A questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework, and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EFL teachers from different gend...

Ecosystem health is an important index of the regional sustainable development. In view of the singularity of indicator selection caused by the limited application of remote sensing and GIS at present, this paper took the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model as reference, and revised the model in multi-analysis foundation. The pressure, vigor, organization structure, response and resilience were...

the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational structure and marital satisfaction. participants (n = 122; 72% female) were recruited among married students of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who completed personal concerns inventory (pci) and marital satisfaction questionnaire (msq). principal component analysis (pca) was used to summarize the pci data. a summar...

Interpersonal expectancy effects are less thoroughly understood in children than in adults, yet they can have practical implications for children's interactions. To understand better children's expectancies, this study extended earlier work to include expectancies of adults, preexisting (i.e., noninduced) expectancies, and joint effects of expectancies and subsequent perceptions. Children (N = ...

This study explored associations between the personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with either a virtual agent or a real human. The animated graphical agent, the Responsive Agent, responded to real human subjects’' storytelling behavior, using appropriately timed nonverbal (contingent) feedback. Interactants’' personal-Words. The results reveale...

Research show that teacher’s nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student’s cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of nonverbal immediacy using a virtual human. The virtual human attempts to use immediacy feedback to create rapport with the learner. Results show that the virtual human established rapport with learners but did not help them ach...

Surplus production represents the processes that affect sustainable fishery harvest and is central to the ecology and management of marine fishes. Taxonomy and life history influence the ratio of spawning biomass at maximum sustainable yield to average unfished spawning biomass (SBMSY/SB0), and estimating this ratio for individual stocks is notoriously difficult. We use a database of published ...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in hamedan's jihad- agriculture applied-scientific higher education center (hjaas). denison's organizational culture model and the building blocks of knowledge management model were used for finding this relationship. a descriptive correlative methodology was used...