Digital storytelling: a tool for life design career intervention     

Pordelan  Nooshin  Hosseinian  Simin  Baei Lashaki  Abdollah 《Education and Information Technologies》2021,26(3):3445-3457

Education and Information Technologies - Life design is a postmodern paradigm in career interventions for which technology plays an important role in helping clients in career decision-making...  相似文献   

Cultural acceptability and personal willingness of Iranian students toward cadaveric donation          下载免费PDF全文

Jamal Abbasi Asl  Hossein Nikzad  Aliakbar Taherian  Mohammad Ali Atlasi  Homayoun Naderian  Gholamabbas Mousavi  Milad Motalebi Kashani  Abdollah Omidi 《Anatomical sciences education》2017,10(2):120-126

Cadaver dissection stands as a crucial component in medical curricula around the world, although computer‐based multimedia programs have been introduced in order to replace the need for cadaver donations. Due to a decrease in the number of unclaimed bodies and rather few donations, there is an insufficient number of cadavers for anatomical studies in Iran. This study was carried out to evaluate medical students' awareness and willingness regarding body donation in Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. In this study, a questionnaire was designed to focus on the cultural acceptability and personal willingness to donate one's body after death. Students from the university's anatomy classes (n = 331) participated in this study. Seventy‐seven percent of the students expressed their agreement toward the idea of utilizing body donation services, though only 25.4% of participants were willing to donate their own bodies. None of the demographic factors were associated with cultural acceptability or personal willingness towards body donation. These findings indicated that besides “payment”, other factors were associated with students' willingness to become donors. All factors of awareness except “previous awareness of organization” were associated with cultural acceptability. In this study, students suggested that encouraging people to register for body donation using mass media (25.6%) and teaching students to respect cadavers in the dissection environment (24.8%) were the best solutions for addressing the lack of cadavers. These findings indicated that a lack of awareness about body donation might be the main factor responsible for unwillingness towards body donation; therefore, improving the public's awareness and addressing the willingness of students regarding body donation may help overcome the current lack of donated cadavers. Anat Sci Educ 10: 120–126. © 2016 American Association of Anatomists.  相似文献   

Assessing the pressure of tennis balls using nonlinear solitary waves: a numerical study     

Abdollah Bagheri  Piervincenzo Rizzo 《Sports Engineering》2017,20(1):53-62

We present a method based on the propagation of highly nonlinear solitary waves (HNSWs) to measure the internal pressure of tennis balls. HNSWs are compact waves that can form and travel in nonlinear systems such as one-dimensional chains of spherical particles, where they are conventionally generated by the mechanical impact of a striker. The speed, amplitude, and duration of these waves can be tuned by modifying the particles’ material or size, or the velocity of the striker. In the present study we numerically investigated the coupling mechanism between the solitary waves propagating along a 1-D granular chain and a tennis ball in contact with the nonlinear medium. A discrete particle model of the beads was coupled to a linear mass–spring–damper model of the tennis ball computed using finite element analysis. Balls with different internal pressures were considered and we found that the time of flight of the HNSWs decreases monotonically with the increase of the internal pressure of the ball.  相似文献