DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS INTERVENTION USING VIDEO MODELING AND SPHERICAL VIDEO-BASED VIRTUAL REALITY FOR HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YOUTH: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Development of a Social Communication Skills Intervention Using Video Modeling and Spherical Video-Based Virtual Reality for High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder Youth: A Preliminary Study

Cognitive and behavioral techniques have been found effective in teaching social communication skills to high functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) youth, yet little research has explored their integration into video-based instructions like video modeling (VM) and spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR).We developed a social communicati

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Local Application of Tanshinone IIA protects mesenchymal stem cells from apoptosis and promotes fracture healing in ovariectomized mice

Abstract Background Elderly patients suffering from osteoporotic fractures are more susceptible to delayed union or nonunion, and their bodies then are in a state of low-grade chronic inflammation with decreased antioxidant capacity.Tanshinone IIA is widely used in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in China and has anti-inflammat

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Chaotic Watermarking for Authentication

This research concerns with generating and hiding invisible chaotic watermarking, in a manner different from that used in the rest of the known watermarks, has been presented.The work has two bempresas.com phases in each of which the chaotic function has been used twice.In the first phase it is used to generate the watermark from the same cover pic

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The Spatial-Comprehensiveness (S-COM) Index: Identifying Optimal Spatial Extents in Volunteered Geographic Information Point Datasets

Social media and other forms of volunteered geographic here information (VGI) are used frequently as a source of fine-grained big data for research.While employing geographically referenced social media data for a wide array of purposes has become commonplace, the relevant scales over which these data apply to is typically unknown.For researchers t

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