the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping stress skills training on stress and problem solving skill in taleghani dormitory students in kermanshah medical sciences university. the research method is experimental and has been done with pre-test, post-test and control group. research tools were harry inventory (2005) and endler and parker coping scale of stressful situation (1...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...

background: clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. this research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   methods: this research is a semi-experimental study. nineteen medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a tw...

introduction: mental sets are clues which are already coded and stored in memory, and retrieved when needed. the present study investigated the role of mental sets in solving anagram problems. methods: the design of this study is an experimental with repeated measurement design. the participants were 20 ma students and graduates chosen through voluntary sampling. each of them were required to u...

In this paper we present the solution of large exact cover problem using Message Passing Interface. The exact cover problem is a kind of constraint satisfaction problem. The exact cover problem is mathematically interesting to solve different mathematical puzzles and may arise practical interests in different fields. The exact cover problem is NPcomplete and the computational complexity to solv...

In this paper we apply message-passing algorithms to solve Sudoku puzzles. We provide explicit expression for the sum-product algorithm and the max-product algorithm and analyze the difference between the algorithms in terms of performance and efficiency. The failure of the max-product algorithm when been applied to Sudoku problem is due to the existence of stopping-sets. We show empirically th...