BACKGROUND Baecke Habitual Physical Activity Questionnaire (BHPAQ) has widely been employed in clinical and laboratorial studies as a tool for measuring subjects' physical activities. But, the reliability and validity of this questionnaire have not been investigated among Persian speakers. OBJECTIVES Therefore, the aim of the current study was examining the reliability and validity of the Per...

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk membahas tafsir sufi secara ringkas dengan menelisik sejarah kemunculannya lalu batasan-batasannya dan juga perdebatan yang mengiringinya. Penelitian dalam artikel menggunakan metode kualitatif yaitu pendekatan studi pustaka. mengantarkan pembaca memahami istilah (tafsir Isyari). Diantara pembahasannya yakni kemunculan sufi, dimana gerakannya massif baru lahir pasca ...

In statistical machine translation, data sparsity is a challenging problem especially for languages with rich morphology and inconsistent orthography, such as Persian. We show that orthographic preprocessing and morphological segmentation of Persian verbs in particular improves the translation quality of Persian-English by 1.9 BLEU points on a blind test set.

Nowadays, Wordnet is used in natural language processing as one of the major linguistic resources. Having such a resource for Persian language helps researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing fields to develop more accurate systems with higher performances. In this research, we propose a model for semi-automatic construction of Persian wordnet of verbs. Compound ve...

At midnight on the 30th June, 1997 the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from the United Kingdom. This event marked the end of 156 years’ of British colonial rule in Hong Kong and hence the end of the British imperial influence in East Asia. Over 8,000 journalists from around the world came to Hong Kong to cover the event, and for a brief moment Hong ...

Abstract This article contributes to the wider historicity of female Sufi spiritual guides by engaging Indonesian examples about which very little have been written. While women can and do hold different levels rank leadership in orders (tariqah), usually among all-female congregations, this examines a rare example woman public position overseeing an entire tariqah network inclusive male discip...