A great potential of educational computer games in learning process has prepared a good opportunity for teachers to apply “playful elements” in learning environments. As a result educational computer games are widely used as tools to entertain, instruct, motivate and develop skills. The effectiveness of a computer game in sense of help players to learn has been matter of game education industry...

To the editor: We would like to thank Dr. Mirza [1] for his editorial in response to our paper [2] on " Ultrasound guided conformal brachytherapy of cervix cancer: survival, patterns of failure, and late complications. " He has raised several questions about our study, which we would like to address. Firstly, we would like to clarify that this study is based on data from our prospective unit da...

Type-2 fuzzy logic systems have extensively been applied to various engineering problems, e.g. identification, prediction, control, pattern recognition, etc. in the past two decades, and the results were promising especially in the presence of significant uncertainties in the system. In the design of type-2 fuzzy logic systems, the early applications were realized in a way that both the anteced...

As a non-parametric technique, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the relative efficiency of peer decision making units (DMUs) that have multiple inputs and outputs. In many situations, DMUs have a two-stage structure, where * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Ashrafi) 1436 A. Ashrafi, A. B. Jaafar, L. S. Lee and M. R. Abu Bakar the first stage uses inputs to ...

Cancer of the breast is one of the most common human neoplasm, many environmental, personal and genetic factors have been implicated as a risk factors to develop breast cancer. Tumor size, histological subtype, grading, lympho-vascular permeation, and lymph node involvement are the cardinal independent factors influence prognosis and response to different therapeutic modalities. Among other pro...

About 110 years ago, Iran experienced a revolution, which was known to be an attempt for development and modernization. The revolutionary roots had been established by new-coming social forces named as intellectuals. Since studying the past highlights the future, the necessity of intellectuals’ discourse as well as understanding their discourse strategies on the road to development and modernit...

the prevalence of the production of lithographic illustrated versions from the half of 13 century ah caused that painters join to the group of calligraphers and book producers in these workshops and in this way many illustrated versions were produced. in the most of available lithographic illustrated versions from qajar period, if the version has not any missing page from the opening to the end...

A new species of Pareas Wagler, 1830 is described from Dulongjiang Township, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, China. Phylogenetically, the most closely related to kaduri Bhosale, Phansalkar, Sawant, Gowande, Patel and Mirza, 2020; however, genetic divergence (uncorrected p-distance) cyt b gene between P. reached 9.4%. Morphologically, can be distinguished by absence preoculars, loreal borderin...