objective: bone marrow transplantation is considered one of the main procedures used in the treatment of both malignant and non-malignant diseases. psychological factors after bone marrow transplantation have an important role in the survival of the patients undergoing this procedure. method: in the present study, some parameters including depression, anxiety and cognition were assessed during ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) models with interval inputs and outputs have been rarely discussed in dea literature. this paper, using the enhanced russell measurement proposes an extended model which permits the presence of interval scale variables which can take both negative and positive values. the model is compared with most well-known dea models of which include the ccr model, the bcc mo...

background: this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of topiramate, a glutamate-modulating agent, in patients with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) as an adjunct to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (sris). materials and methods: thirty-eight patients with refractory ocd, were randomly assigned to receive topiramate or placebo. this study was designed as a 12-week, double...

demand for consumption of protein, as a result of improvement in the income and nutrition levels, has a rapid growth in developing countries. broiler industry has a crucial role in providing protein. to design an optimal plan and to use the potential resources, analyzing cost structure of this industry is required. in this study, cost structure and economies of scale of broiler industry were an...

the associations between exposure to traumatic events and psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), depression, and anxiety have been established. it is important that clinicians notice to this phenomenon and avoid from inappropriate interpretations and additional laboratory tests. here, a case of 45-year-old man with essential thrombocytosis developed after multiple p...

ion of the Functionality. The functionality of a data management component should describe only what the component does, not how it does that. Another aspect of

The efficiency of social housing providers is a contentious issue. In the Netherlands, there is a widespread belief that housing corporations have substantial potential for efficiency improvements. A related question is whether scale influences efficiency, since recent decades have shown a trend of mergers among corporations. This paper offers a framework to assess the effects of scale and merg...

An in nite dimensional class of isomorphisms is considered, relating a particular class of nonlinear scale-spaces to the well-established linear case. The nonlinearity pertains to an invertible mapping of grey-values, which can be adapted so as to account for external knowledge. This is particularly interesting for applications such as segmentation in medical imaging, whereby one is in possessi...

This paper proposes an approach using large scale case structures, which are automatically constructed from both a small tagged corpus and a large raw corpus, to improve Chinese dependency parsing. The case structure proposed in this paper has two characteristics: (1) it relaxes the predicate of a case structure to be all types of words which behaves as a head; (2) it is not categorized by sema...