background: schizophrenia is a disorder with psychotic symptoms that severely affects personal performance. assessing problem- focused strategies and quality of life (qol) in patients with schizophrenia may help the clinicians to use appropriate interventions. this study was conducted to find the relationship between problem-focused coping strategies and quality of life in schizophrenic patient...

u. t. place claims that philosophical problems concerning the true nature of mind-brain relationship disappears or is settled adhering to materialism, especially type identity theory of mind. he takes above claim as a reasonable scientific hypothesis. i shall argue why it is not as he claims. at first, to pave the way for refutation, i will briefly clarify place's approach to the subject i...

energy conservation in buildings plays a vital role for sustainable development of societies and nations. although, newer buildings in developing nations are being constructed using energy conservation approach, existing buildings have higher energy demand to meet the desired comfort. excessive energy demand for cooling the built environment is a major problem over most of the arid climatic zon...

let $g$ be a graph and let $m_{ij}(g)$, $i,jge 1$, be the number of edges $uv$ of $g$ such that ${d_v(g), d_u(g)} = {i,j}$. the {em $m$-polynomial} of $g$ is introduced with $displaystyle{m(g;x,y) = sum_{ile j} m_{ij}(g)x^iy^j}$. it is shown that degree-based topological indices can be routinely computed from the polynomial, thus reducing the problem of their determination in each particular ca...

  In this paper, different input-oriented ratio-based DEA (DEA-R-I) models are proposed. By presenting the envelopment-additive-enhanced Russell model based on the DEA-R-I form, each decision making unit is evaluated and its efficiency score is calculated. Also, by presenting the central resource allocation model based on the DEA-R-I form, a suitable benchmark for all DMUs is proposed by solvin...

In this paper, a genetic algorithm is presented for an identical parallel-machine scheduling problem with family setup time that minimizes the total weighted flow time ( ). No set-up is necessary between jobs belonging to the same family. A set-up must be scheduled when switching from the processing of family i jobs to those of another family j, i  j, the duration of this set-up being the sequ...