Background: Changing the mental structure of students and identifying creativity inhibitors are essential for academic survival and the pursuit of innovation. This study aimed to identify the inhibitory cognitive factors in medical students. Methods: This study was a directional qualitative content analysis that conducted based on scientific literature review and opinions of experts in a semif...

Employing the machine learning method, this study analyzes 6,504 articles from four major newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and The Guardian, to examine how media cover the topic about causes of autism. A total of 14,305 causal sentences on the topic are extracted from media articles and subjected to analysis of causal entities and descriptions. Results show media have pre...

The major goal of this work is to identify the key factors that affect e-commerce adoption in Algeria from macro perspective. In order to do so, four main infrastructures extracted from literature review have been used to determine the nature of the barriers that have prevented e-commerce from taking off as expected and to explain why Algeria lags behind other countries with similar economic co...

This paper examines the English particle placements of EFL learners’ writings in three East Asian countries (Chinese, Japan, and Korea). Three parts of the TOEFL11 corpus were chosen, and all the sentences with particles were extracted. The ICE-GB was chosen as a native speakers’ English. Then, eleven linguistic factors were manually encoded. The collected data were analyzed with R. Correlation...

Purpose of this research is determining the success of online shopping stores by an intelligent system. Here a Fuzzy Expert System has been designed with the consideration of website attributes as input variables. The web site success level is determined in this system as output. The rules of systems have been extracted from some ecommerce experts and the systems have been developed with the us...

The digital image correlation technique is applied to investigate mixed-mode (I/II) fracture in five aerospace epoxy formulations, four of which are experimentally toughened. Stress intensity factors are extracted from displacement fields using the Williams method for a range of mode mixities. From these measurements, values of an effective resin KIIc are deduced and these are shown to have a s...