background: the celebrated generalized estimating equations (gee) approach is often used in longitudinal data analysis. while this method behaves robustly against misspecification of the working correlation structure, it has some limitations on efficacy of estimators, goodness-of-fit tests and model selection criteria. the quadratic inference functions (qif) is a new statistical methodology tha...

OBJECTIVE To synthesize results from pertinent studies and determine if fasting and/or non-fasting triglycerides are a risk factor for ischemic stroke. METHOD We performed two independent systematic literature searches using the PubMed and ScienceDirect databases to identify studies examining the relationship between fasting and non-fasting triglyceride concentrations and ischemic stroke risk...

human was created from both the natural and spiritual dimensions and has multimodal functions (e.g., cognitive, behavioral, affective, sensation, interpersonal relationship, and etc.). having one-dimensional impression in life would provide anxiety predisposition for man, but then having an integrated and monotheistic view would result in an assimilated psychological discipline for him/her. the...

Questioning practice constitutes one of the typical and fundamental interactional tools in L2 teaching. Much L2 research on teacher questions has been quantitative studies focusing on identifying question types and their roles in language acquisition and meaning negotiation. However, by drawing on conversation analysis within a sociocultural perspective, this study examines qualitatively how EF...

in recent years, space syntax theory has been used for analyzing spatial configurations; these analyses mostly focus on social aspects. according to the space syntax theory, space arrangements affect the space usage in buildings. this paper aims at studying spatial configurations of some traditional houses in iran in terms of flexibility factor. besides of having the housing function and provid...

the field of comparative analysis on persian and arabic grammars and in contrast to number and counted nouns discourses in both languages it is revealed that there is a numerical composition in either double-bases (simple) or triple- bases (it has counting conjunction or counting unit in persian and quantifier in arabic). this categorization may itself open some other new classes and lead to pu...

The increasing importance of sustainability gives rise to the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). To help organizations develop their SSCM capabilities with IT support, this paper proposes an IT-enabled capability maturity model (SSCM CMM). Based on previous literature, seven and four dimensions are identified. A five-level is then defined based these two domains. preliminarily examined...

Sequences potentially associated with coffee resistance to diseases were identified by in silico analyses using the database of the Brazilian Coffee Genome Project (BCGP). Keywords corresponding to plant resistance mechanisms to pathogens identified in the literature were used as baits for data mining. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) related to each of these keywords were identified with tools a...

since the verbs of and have similar use and play an important role in arabic grammar, it was useful to study both and discuss about their functions. following the discussion we found that there is five different functions for :first, it is an imperfect verb, (that give the noun an nominative case and the comment an objective case) arabic grammar experts disagree if it has a verb function or a n...