introduction there is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) and e-selection also change during eating disorders. we aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, icam-1, e-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. materials and met...

portfolio selection is considered a critically significant decision, firms have to make. as such, much research has been focused on the selection of a portfolio with a controlled level of risk and high expected return. this paper uses a new definition of risk for portfolio selection whereby risk taking is taken as a curve instead of a specific value. in this paper, a genetic algorithm is presen...

ntroduction. The student selection at the universities has always been a matter of concern. Student selection process should allow equal opportunities to all students who fulfil a set of pre-determined criteria, apart from the sex, religion, social and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the process should be quite transparent and perfectly concerned. Student admission is held in different methods ...

One of the main principles of the passive defense is the principle of site selection. In this paper, we propose a multiple objective nonlinear programming model that considers the principle of the site selection in terms of two qualitative and quantitative aspects. The purpose of the proposed model is selection of the place of facilities of a system in which not only it observes the dispersion ...

Introduction. Since , the selection of academic course is very important to job selection. A study for considering the anesthesia technician student’s knowledge about their course was necessary. This study was performed for this reason at Kashan university of medical sciences in 2002. Methods. For this descriptive study a questionnaire was designed in 2 sections: First section, included age, s...

this study investigates the detection of the drowsiness state for a future application such as in the reduction ofthe road traffic accidents. the electroencephalography(eeg), electrooculography (eog), driving quality (dq), and karolinska sleepiness scale (kss) data of 7 male during approximately 20 hours of sleep deprivation were recorded. to reduce the eye blink artifact, an automatic mechanis...

the supply chain represents the critical link between the development of new product and the market in pharmaceutical industry. over the years, improvements made in supply chain operations have focused largely on ways to reduce cost and gain efficiencies in scale. in addition, powerful regulatory and market forces have provided new incentives for pharmaceutical firms to basically rethink the wa...

to improve commercial grapevine cultivars, it is necessary to apply such methods that by cultivation of a certain number of vines in a certain area, higher yield could be harvested. to achieve such a goal, healthy stocks with resistant to pests and diseases, high fructification and high quality of vines are needed. all these properties can be obtained successfully through clonal selection. viti...

this study was conducted to determine timeliness costs in using machinery and their effects on farmers’ revenues. in addition, optimum cropping pattern was compared with the existing one assuming removal of timeliness cost. for the purpose of the study, mixed integer and linear programming methods were used. the study was conduced in marvdasht region in southern iran. the data were collected th...