May 23, 2012 Type Package Title An examination of indices for determining the number of clusters : NbClust Package Version 1.0 Date 2012-05-01 Author Malika Charrad and Nadia Ghazzali and Veronique Boiteau and Azam Niknafs Maintainer : Nadia Ghazzali <[email protected]....

Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 3, 2011 ABSTRACT Purpose: To discover, describe and analyze the traditional generic (lay, folk, indigenous) and professional care meanings, beliefs, and practices related to health and illness of traditional Syrian Muslims in the Midwestern United States (US). Design and Research Methods: Leininger’s Culture Care Theory...

INTRODUCTION Lebanon is the main hosting country for the Syrian crisis, with more than one million Syrian refugees. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and identify its possible predictors, in a sample of Syrian refugees living in camps in Lebanon. METHOD We conducted a household survey on Syrian refugees between 18 and 65years...

Standard signature verification (SV) systems are writer-dependent (WD), where a specific classifier is designed for each individual. It is inconvenient to ask a user to provide enough number of signature samples to design his WD classifier. In practice, very few samples are collected and inaccurate classifiers maybe produced. To overcome this, writer-independent (WI) systems are introduced. A g...

Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writer-independent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which is tuned for a particular writer. Adaptation has the potential of increasing recognition accuracies, provided adequate models can be constructed for a particular writer. The limited amount of data ...