The Situated Action approach to AI emphasizes the role of the environment in the generation and control of behavior; see (Norman 1993) for an introduction. Work to date has focused mainly on activity within spatially and temporally localized environments such as kitchens and video games (Agre & Chapman 1987; Agre & Horswill 1992). How useful is this perspective when larger-scale activities are ...

and do not assume endorsement by the Federal Government (Edgar, 75.620(b)). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge Cindy Gruman and Allison Roche for their assistance in preparing this report. We also appreciate the helpful comments on an early draft of the report provided by David Stapleton.

The hallmark of skilled reading is the ability to read individual words accurately and quickly in isolation as well as in text, referred to as “context free” word reading skill (Stanovich, 1980). For a skilled reader, even a quick glance at a word activates its pronunciation and meaning. Being able to read words from memory by sight is valuable because it allows readers to focus their attention...

Introduction The shift from adult education to lifelong learning has not only impacted on the role and position of the adult educator, but has also had a profound effect on the legitimation of the learning of adults. Whereas adult education has historically been connected with learning for personal development and empowerment and learning for social inclusiveness and democratic understanding an...

background: the outbreaks of foodborne diseases is a major health problem and occur daily in all countries, from the most to the least developed. this study is the first report of foodborne outbreaks in iran that carried out from 2006 to 2011. methods: a retrospective, longitudinal study carried out using foodborne disease national surveillance system data from 2006-2011, which have been report...

ebola virus (ebov) is an enveloped virus including a negative single strand genome in its virion with cylindrical/tubular morphology. ebov is the causative agent of ebola virus disease (evd), which is also involved in the outbreak observed in central africa since 1976. evd is a complex zoonotic viral disease which is highly virulent in human. the transmission of ebola infection is not usually h...

plague is an infectious disease transmitted from rodents to humans. this disease is considered an endemic disease in western iran. the last officially reported case of human plague in iran was in 1965. in the last few decades, human plague has been reported in iran’ neighboring countries. also, according to some recent evidence witnessing infected rodents in western iran, it is probable to have...

background: the postoperative shivering is one of the common complications of anesthesia after surgery and in the recovery room, which can cause the increased systemic blood pressure, oxygen consumption, heart rate and the cardiac arrhythmias among patients. due to the variety of drugs used in general anesthesia, and necessity of choosing the effective intravenous and the inhaled drugs to reduc...

17 Address to which correspondence should be sent: 18 C. Elaine Chapman 19 Département de physiologie 20 Université de Montréal 21 PO Box 6128, Succursale centre ville 22 Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 23 Canada 24 25 Tel : 514-343-2304 26 Fax : 514-343-6113 27 e-mail : [email protected] 28 29 30 Running title: Tactile roughness perception 31 32

an outbreak of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by leishmania major was identified in ghanavat rural district, qom province, central iran, during 1999-2001. among 1069 inhabitants examined in dec. 1999, 5.14% showed evidence of active lesions and 12.44% had scar indicative of past infection. the most highly infected age group was 5-9 years old for ulcers with a rate of 6.56%. the inciden...