Background: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasing worldwide. Limited data are available trying to compare different definitions suggested to identify MetS. This study aimed to compare the prevalence of MetS and its components based on currently available international and Iranian national definitions. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 amongfema...

Abstract Current challenges for today’s industry are an increase in gear ratio one stage, load capacity as well efficiency compared to standard gears. The tooth profile cylindrical gears is involute. This has certain limits external gearings regarding its geometry, e.g., undercutting and a small radius of curvature near the base circle. Special overcome these offer enormous potential design thr...

Developing a theoretically driven causal model of state failure is necessary if scholars are committed to improving the predictive power and forecasting ability of early warning models of state failure. Building upon the work of the State Failure Project and earlier statistical models of state failure, this study develops a causal model of state failure that is based upon a theoretical foundati...

We suggest a working definition of texture: Texture is stuff that is more compactly represented by its statistics than by specifying the configuration of its parts. This definition suggests that to fmd texture we look for outliers to the local statistics, and label as texture the regions with no outliers. We present a method, based upon this idea, for labeling points in natural scenes as belong...

Behavioural typing and subtyping has proved to be a very useful concept for the support of incremental reuse in the area of object-oriented (O-O) languages. With the emergence of formalisms integrating the O-O approach and Petri nets, the question arises how behavioural subtyping may be supported by such formalisms. We present a formal framework for the definition of behavioural typing in CoOpe...

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (IJMS) is published by the Faculty Graduate - University Sri Jayewardenepura. IJMS provides a supportive environment for multidisciplinary researchers to publish their contribution academy knowledge and wisdom. Focus journal on research which should cover at least two distinct disciplines.