We present a description of our approach for the “Bird task Identification LifeCLEF 2014”. Our approach consists of four stages: (1) a filtering stage for the filtering of audio bird recordings; (2) segmentation stage for the extraction of syllables; (3) a candidate generation based on HOG features from the syllables using SVM; and (4) a species identification using a Sparse Representation-base...

AIM In this study, we conducted a dietary assessment of the subjects and investigated the relationship of energy, nutrients and food intake to the indices of masticatory ability and masticatory behavior for identifying the differences in their association with dietary patterns. METHODS The subjects were 61 5-y-old children, of whom 45 were included in the final analysis. Occlusal force was me...

the two main approaches for estimating pmp are the synoptic and statistical techniques that their results are often different and selection of the appropriate option is difficult. in the most previous researches the frequency factor in the statistical method has been considered equal to 15 which this is the ultimate limit of frequency factor and the corresponding pmp is became too large. in the...

Abstract. The short- and long-term variability of the surface spectral solar ultraviolet (UV) irradiance is investigated across Italy using high-quality ground-based measurements from three locations: Aosta (45.7? N, 7.4? E, 570 m a.s.l.), Rome (41.9? 12.5? 15 75 Lampedusa (35.5? 12.6? 50 a.s.l.). sites are characterized by different environmental conditions represent almost full latitudinal ex...

objective sleep disorders are common in children; they also have a significant impact on the whole family, the parents in particular. few studies in this field have been performed in iran; hence the  present study was carried out in order to determine sleep patterns and the  prevalence of sleep disorders in school aged children in qazvin. material and methods this cross sectional study was done...

background: the fertility experience in iran suggests that the family planning programs had an effective role in the fertility reduction. this study aimed to specify patterns of marriage in iran and especially in a northern city of iran and to investigate the association between patterns of marriage and contraceptive use before first pregnancy and current contraceptive use. methods: in this cro...

research findings suggest that the family context and communication patterns have high correlation with adolescent’s mental health indicators such as anxiety. therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the mediator role of coping strategies in relation between family communication patterns and students social anxiety. 140 students of shiraz guidance schools were studied they completed th...

this study investigated the antibacterial resistance among enterococci isolated in tehran hospitals. a total of 277 enterococcus faecalis, 123 enterococcus faecium and 13 isolates of other enterococcal strains were collected from 1 march 2002 to 15 april 2004 from three teaching hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. the minimum inhibitory concentrations (mic) of tested antibiotics...