BACKGROUND A clinical outcome tool is needed for the assessment of young athletes with low back pain. OBJECTIVES To translate and culturally adapt the Micheli functional scale (MFS), a self-report questionnaire developed to evaluate young athletes with low back pain (LBP) into Persian language and examine the reliability and validity of the Persian MFS (PMFS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-...

Lexical ontologies are one of the main resources for developing natural language processing and semantic web applications. Mapping lexical ontologies of different languages is very important for inter-lingual tasks. On the other hand mapping approaches can be implied to build lexical ontologies for a new language based on pre-existing resources of other languages. In this paper we propose a sem...

International Journal of Control Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393989 Improved robust H∞ control for neutral systems via discretised Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional Fernando O. Souza a; Reinaldo M. Palhares a; Valter J. S. Leite b a Department of Electronics Engineering, Federal University ...

The modern word ‘political’ derives from the Greek politikos, ‘of, or pertaining to, the polis’. (The Greek term polis will be translated here as ‘city-state’. It is also translated as ‘city’ or ‘polis’, or simply anglicized as ‘polis’. City-states like Athens and Sparta were relatively small and cohesive units, in which political, religious, and cultural concerns were intertwined. The extent o...

In this paper, extracted word features have been used toward offline detection of Persian handwritten words. This has been done using fourteen features in Persian word structure. In this method after required pre-processing, numbers and location of dots versus base line are extracted then the word becomes thin and the feature extraction stage starts. In this stage the words are detected by usin...

At Repl/blic 370c-372d, Plato presents us with an early polis that is self-sufficient. peaceful, cooperative, and which provides a comfortable life for its inhabitants. While Glaucon derides this polis as a 'city for pigs', Socrates is quick to defend its virtues characterizing it as a city which is not only 'complete' (te/ea), but a 'true' (alEtilil/e polis) and 'healthy' city (hugies tis) (37...

İletişimin ayrı bir bilim olarak kabul edilmesinden günümüze kadar gelen süreçte araştırmacılar tarafından çeşitli etki araştırmaları yapılmıştır. Etki yoluyla bireylerde algı oluşturularak farklı gerçeklik yaratabilmektedir. Televizyon, yayınlanan programlar aracılığıyla kendi gerçeğini izleyicilere aktararak bireylerin tutum ve davranışlarında değişikliklere neden olmaktadır. Bu bağlamda elin...

This paper presents the experiments designed in order to validate our previously proposed methodology that uses POLIS as a co-design environment for reactive systems and two prototyping boards that use two different microcontrollers as SW components. On one hand, we reviewed the manually profiled SW cost parameters by using test tools. On the other hand, we have tried several applications on th...