BACKGROUND The twelve step program is one of the programs that are administered for overcoming abuse of drugs. In this study, the effectiveness of chemical dependency counseling course was investigated using a hybrid model. METHODS In a survey with sample size of 243, participants were selected using stratified random sampling method. A questionnaire was used for collecting data and one sampl...

This paper is concerned with the efficient transmission of scalable compressed images with complex dependency structures over lossy communication channels. Our recent work proposed a strategy for allocating source elements into clusters of packets and finding their optimal code-rates. However, the previous work assumes that source elements form a simple chain of dependencies. The present paper ...

Ginsberg has recently introduced a polynomial space aggressive dependency directed backtrack search technique. Aggressive dependency directed techniques have the property that the size of the search space generated by a union of disjoint subproblems is proportional to the sum of the search space generated by each problem independently. Earlier polynomial space dependency directed methods did no...

Word sequential alignment models work well for similar language pairs, but they are quite inadequate for distant language pairs. It is difficult to align words or phrases of distant languages with high accuracy without structural information of the sentences. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian subtree alignment model that incorporates dependency relations between subtrees in dependency tree s...