BACKGROUND Empathy is an important factor in patient-physician relationship that has beneficial effects in medical practice. Jefferson scale of empathy (JSE) has been specifically designed to assess empathy in health professionals (HP-version) and related students (S-version). Few validation studies have been performed on S-version of the scale. AIMS To examine empathy in a large sample of Ir...

OBJECTIVE The Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) assesses disability in four domains of home management, work responsibilities, close relationships and social life. The main objective of this study was to develop the Persian version of the SDS. METHOD Two steps of field work followed the Persian translation and cultural adaptation of the tool: First, the internal consistency and convergent validi...

Genomic assessment of local sheep breeds is relevant to the reconstruction post-domestication migrations and filling in gaps developmental history contemporary phylogeographic-differentiation patterns Eurasia. In this study, we aimed reveal possible genetic relationships between Russia Persian Highlands (Iran) based on high-density SNP genotypes. All samples (n = 395) from 11 Iranian 10 Russian...

Iran is a Middle Eastern country which located in the north of Persian Gulf. Due to vastness its territory Gulf, has most beaches this sea and number valuable strategic islands entrance Gulf Strait Hormuz. In regards Iranian are more than 30 due their geopolitical, geostraegic geoeconomic locations play important role domestic, regional global arenas. addition, some particularly, three Greater ...

coral is one of the richest ecosystems in the world and divided into two major groups. first group consist of soft corals living in tropical and semitropical oceans and seas. people in the past used these kinds of coral to make jewelry and decorative objects. second group contains hard coral which have been used as construction material in coastal zones. this paper presents the role of corals i...

In pursuit of Persian handwritten digit recognition, many machine learning techniques have been utilized. Mixture of experts (MOE) is one of the most popular and interesting combining methods which has great potential to improve performance in machine learning. In MOE, during a competitive learning process, the gating networks supervise dividing input space between experts and experts obtain sp...

Mohammad-Karim Pirnia, one of the most prominent scholars of the history of Iranian architecture, has recorded two major achievements: the principles of Iranian architecture and the stylistics of Iranian architecture. In this article we will discuss his suggested principles for Iranian architecture. For this purpose, we will first show how his five principles have evolved and completed th...

this paper will concentrate on the result of a research based on comparative study between two persian gardens in different micro climates in arid regions. sustainability could be observed in many aspects and elements of traditional iranian architecture and landscape architecture, and this method of design has used to solve many problems for many centuries. gardens of iran have had special role...

Despite the fact that Arabic and Persian languages ​​are derived from two different origins, they have had a very close interaction throughout historical periods due to continuous communication between Iranian Arab peoples, in this way, influence of ​​has created works. Has left each one other, which may not be seen any other languages. Unlike civilizations such as Egyptian civilization, forgot...