Article history: Received date: 13 September, 2016 Review date: 2 October 2016 Accepted date:20 November 2016 Printed on line: 5 January Purpose: The present study was done to introduce an efficient tool in the field of moral behavior. Material & Method: method of the study was correlational, its approach was test developing and its population was students of Islamic Azad University- Ast...

Most of modern systems are complex and include heterogeneous subsystems and components, such as software, devices, equipments, that are influenced human factor. Healthcare systems are typical example of such systems that have to perfect the care of a patient and to have high reliability. Therefore the reliability analysis of healthcare system is an important problem. There are different methods...

Background & aim: Pelvic shape has important effects on obstetrical outcomes. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the etiologic factors that contribute to the formation of female pelvis and describe its variability. Methods: This study was conducted on 131 women referring to Saint Joseph Hospital, Marseille...

in the present study, quantitative relationships between molecular structure and anti-tubercular activity of some 5-methyl/trifluoromethoxy-1 h -indole-2,3-dione-3-thiosemicarbazone derivatives were discovered. the detailed application of an efficient linear method and principal component regression (pcr) for the evaluation of quantitative structure activity relationships of the studied compound...

as widespread deserts is located in west and southwest of iran plateau, dust storms form due to west andsouthwest systems over syria or iraq as well as arabian peninsula. these systems severely affect west and southwestregions. sometimes the fine dusts transmit to central, north east, and east regions. in this study for investigating dustysynoptical patterns, meteorological data at 5 synoptic s...

background: in order to check the practicality of classification of universities of medical sciences (umss) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of umss. methods: in the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of umss and in the mini...

introduction of human development index (hdi) by undp in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. the hdi is a composite index of three indicators. its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

Using a portable near infrared (NIR) spectrometer, we discriminated flours for making Japanese noodles (Soba), not only relying on a statistical and mathematical approach, but also on a chemical interpretation of the NIR spectra. In original NIR spectra, the particle-size difference, which results in an undesired systematic variation, was extracted and interpreted as the first-principal compone...

the main focus in this study is on data pre-processing, reduction in number of inputs or input space size reduction the purpose of which is the justified generalization of data set in smaller dimensions without losing the most significant data. in case the input space is large, the most important input variables can be identified from which insignificant variables are eliminated, or a variable ...