aims: in regard to increasing greenhouse area in iran followed by increased use of pesticides and contaminated crops, this study aimed to determine the frequency and types of consumed pesticides in kashan region, iran, greenhouses. instrument & methods: in this descriptive study in 2011-2012, samples was entered by census method. at the first step, a list of greenhouses was obtained from agricu...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the coaching and referreeing courses from the viewpoints of those university students who participated in these courses. the research method used in this study was descriptive. the population consisted of the students of physical education faculties of tehran state universities (n=2000) and the sample was determined as 322 subjects base...

this study has been conducted with the purpose of examining effects of cultural factors on environmental protection and environmental behaviors. the ideas of different thinkers including durkheim, weber, parsons, giddens and jorge tome have been used to provide the relevant theoretical frame. in this study survey method and questionnaire technique (on 400 people from districts 5 and 18 of tehra...

BACKGROUND With advancing age, the frequency of medical screening increases. Interpreting the results of medical tests involves estimation of posterior probabilities such as positive predictive values (PPVs) and negative predictive values (NPVs). Both laypeople and experts are typically poor at estimating posterior probabilities when the relevant statistics are communicated descriptively. The c...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome in patients with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Cardiology Department of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, from June 2006 to June 2007. METHODOLOGY A total of 100 subjects with ischemic heart disease, fulfilling the inclusion criteria, were enrolled ...

All those concerned with the decision-making, they take better decisions when they use all the available information with practical and interpretable way. Statistics provide methods for data collection and analysis to support the decision-making. Statistics is the Science of collection, analysis and interpretation of observed data reported in attributes of natural or social phenomena. Utilizati...

In this research work, we have developed a bio inspired PSO algorithm in combination with descriptive statistics equation based model. In this work, based on the mathematical relationship between the Entropy, Uniformity and the threshold measured in terms of intensity. It is found using box plot and curve fitting techniques to calculate automatic input threshold for PSO. The results show highly...

BACKGROUND We live in an era of explosive data generation that will continue to grow and involve all industries. One of the results of this explosion is the need for newer and more efficient data analytics procedures. Traditionally, data analytics required a substantial background in statistics and computer science. In 2015, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) released the IBM Wat...