The purpose of multi-focus image fusion is gathering the essential information and the focused parts from the input multi-focus images into a single image. These multi-focus images are captured with different depths of focus of cameras. A lot of multi-focus image fusion techniques have been introduced using considering the focus measurement in the spatial domain. However, the multi-focus image ...

Improvement in the quality of teacher education is an issue of considerable concern to every country including Iran. The challenges that student-teachers face during their education can be highly influential in this regard. Consequently, the present study was an attempt to come up with a model for the factors challenging Iranian EFL preservice teachers using a grounded theory approach. For this...

The present research note is an overview of a case study1 based on a series of inquiries into elementary and high school children’s online media use. In March 2012, a survey (N=761) showed that young people from a Transylvanian school2 had shifted online as their premier source of information, with no significant divide between rural and urban environments or between girls and boys .3 In June 2...

Background: This study aims to describe the community perceptions regarding an insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) programme in Burkina Faso, where communities were randomised to either ITN social marketing combined with free ITN distribution through antenatal care services (intervention A) or ITN social marketing only (intervention B). Methods: For this descriptive qualitative study data were co...

Two critical bottle necks in mining frequent tree patterns from tree databases are the exponential number of mined patterns and the lack of user focus on the mining process. We propose, in this paper, an algorithm that solves the problems for unordered attribute trees by mining only the compact representation of tree patterns, i.e. closed tree patterns, and allows users to mine only trees of th...