objective:this research has been done according to the cognitivebehavioral theories and biochemical model in order to evaluate the efficiency of group cognitive-behavior therapy in combination with pharmacotherapy on mania and depression symptoms and awareness of warning signs of relapse in patients with bipolar disorder. methods:in this study with the experimental pretest- posttest- follow up ...

in this research, a new control policy for the acceptance sampling problem is introduced. decision is made based on the number of defectives items in an inspected batch. the objective of the model is to find a constant control level that minimizes the total costs, including the cost of rejecting the batch, the cost of inspection and the cost of defective items. the optimization is performed by ...

This study presents a compressed sensing (CS) based sampling approach for repetitive ultrasonic signal. Proposed system considers recovering ultrasonic signal with high equivalent sampling frequency from samples captured using analog-to-digital converter (ADC) clocked at a rate lower than Nyquist rate. A basis function is constructed to realize ultrasonic signal sparse representation, which pav...

OBJECTIVES Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectively suppresses HIV-1 replication, it does not eradicate the virus and ART interruption consistently results in rebound of viraemia, demonstrating the persistence of a long-lived viral reservoir. Several approaches aimed at reducing virus persistence are being developed, and accurate measurements of the latent reservoir (LR) are necessary ...

Fourteen commercial leek fields with first and second generation Leek moth, Acrolepiopsis assectella Z., (LM) injury were sampled during 1986 in The Netherlands. For both generations, plant injury was more prevalent in the perimeter of the field than in interior portions. A sequential sampling program for use in making treatment decisions for LM was developed. An economic analysis of the value ...

Control of critical dimension (CD) variation is of extreme importance in modern semiconductor manufacturing processes. To be controlled, the nature of CD variation must be understood. This paper outlines a method for characterizing systematic spatial variation by means of dense electrical linewidth measurements, including actual sample data. In addition, since exhaustive sampling is prohibitive...

Mobile robots are extensively used to complete repetitive operations in industrial areas such as intelligent transportation, logistics, and manufacturing systems. This paper addresses the path planning problem of multi-type robot systems with time windows based on timed colored Petri nets. The tasks be completed divided into three different types: common, exclusive collaborative. An analytical ...

Most discussions about unsuccessful strategic planning dwell on execution. Few experts have explained how to implement plans better than Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan in their book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Crown Business, 2002). While they clearly explain the importance of integrating people and operations with plans; their guide, like so many others, still leaves out a...