Dictionaries are sociocultural objects that can be used as underlying structures of cognitive science models. We first show that the lexical networks constructed from dictionaries, despite a surface disagreement at links level, share a common topological structure. We assume that this deep structure reflects the semantic organisation of the lexicon shared by the members of a linguistic communit...

universities of medical science and health services (umshss) are among the main organizations in iran's health-care section. improving their efficiency in financial resource management through creating an appropri-ate coordination between consumption and resources is strategically vital. investigating the financial performance as well as ranking the iranian umshss is the research objective.the ...

BACKGROUND Efficient, accurate instruments for measuring depression are increasingly important in clinical practice. We developed a computerized adaptive version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). We examined its efficiency and its usefulness in identifying Major Depressive Episodes (MDE) and in measuring depression severity. METHODS Subjects were 744 participants in research studies in ...

OBJECTIVE To study the differences and the relation between what a doctor actually does in daily practice (performance) and what he or she is capable of doing (competence) by using national standards for general practice. DESIGN General practitioners were consulted by four standardised (simulated) patients portraying four different cases during normal surgery hours. Later the doctors particip...