The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the special and different nature of the Persian language compared to other languages like English, the design of information retrieval systems in Persian requires special considerations. However, there are relatively few studies on retrieval...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...

BACKGROUND Autologous adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction (SVF), which is rich in mesenchymal stromal cells, has been reported to be effective for the treatment of trigeminal neuropathic pain and chronic migraine and tension-type headaches. It is possible that stem cell activity targets neurogenic inflammation, which is a well-documented aspect of migraine pathogenesis. METHODS Adult pa...

Background The present study investigated the potential roles of plasma lymphocyte DNA damage, the urotensin-2 receptor (UTS2R), and oxidative changes in patients with varying degrees of migraine-related disability who were in the ictal phase and presented to our emergency department. Methods This study enrolled 40 consecutive adult patients with migraine attack and 40 age- and sex-matched he...

PURPOSE This was the open-label study to evaluate the potential benefit of Pinus radiata bark extract and vitamin C as a treatment for migraine. METHODS Fifty outpatients with chronic migraine refractory to at least two prophylactic medications were treated with an antioxidant formulation of 1200 mg Pinus radiata bark extract and 150 mg vitamin C daily for 3 months. Patients completed migrain...

The Microbial Database for Activated Sludge (MiDAS) field guide is a freely available online resource linking the identity of abundant and process critical microorganisms in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems to available data related to their functional importance. Phenotypic properties of some of these genera are described, but most are known only from sequence data. The MiDAS taxo...

MIDAS is an application framework developed at College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science for interactive remote data acquisition and visualization. The objective is to provide dynamic reconfiguration of the sensing process. The current MIDAS application framework utilizes the code mobility and portability of Java 2 platform. The Jini technology for networking devices increases the system evolv...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the concurrent validity of the farsi version of functional gait assessment (fga), timed up & go (tug), and gait speed tests in persian communitydwelling older adults. methods: subjects were 100 males in falling or no falling history group (50 subjects in each group). subjects were community-dwelling adults aged 60-90 years who were living in...

This paper proposes an innovative approach to improve the classification performance of Persian texts. The proposed method uses a thesaurus as a helpful knowledge to obtain more representative word-frequencies in the corpus. Two types of word relationships are considered in our used thesaurus. This is the first attempt to use a Persian thesaurus in the field of Persian information retrieval. Ex...