Abstract Nowadays, it is important for buyers to know other customer opinions make informed decisions on buying a product or service. In addition, companies and organizations can exploit improve their products services. However, the Quintilian bytes of generated every day cannot be manually read summarized. Sentiment analysis opinion mining techniques offer solution automatically classify summa...

BACKGROUND One effective model for studying cigarette smoking cessation is the transtheoretical model (TTM). In order to assess to what degree interventions can make variations in individuals' behavior, several questionnaires have been developed based on the TTM. This study aims to describe the development of the Persian version of the Decisional Balance Inventory (DBI) for smoking cessation in...

background: questionnaire is a suitable tool for evaluating the subjective masticatory function in edentulous patients. however, there is no validated persian version of masticatory function questionnaire. the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated persian version of the quality of masticatory function (qmf) questionnaire in terms of validity and reliabi...

although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. in the present study, participants filled out either the persian or english version of a discourse completion test (dct). the researchers analyzed collected answers to discover the relationship between impoliteness and power. furthermore, the researchers compar...

background: to validate the persian version of the simple shoulder test in patients with shoulder joint problems.   methods: following beaton`s guideline, translation and back translation was conducted. we reached to a consensus on the persian version of sst. to test the face validity in a pilot study, the persian sst was administered to 20 individuals with shoulder joint conditions. we enrolle...

background and aim: auditory processing disorders may have detrimental consequences on a child’s life, if undiagnosed and untreated. the multiple auditory processing assessment (mapa), as a valid model, has been introduced for central auditory processing assessment and diagnosis in school children. the purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the persian version of mapa for auditory pro...