Analyzing Farsi and Arabic handwritten documents is one area in image processing whose target is to transform picture documents into symbolic form. This transformation is conducted o make rapid and easy saving, improvements, retrieval, reuse, searching and transferring documents. Analyzing documents is performed in five stages: pre-processing, segmentation representation, recognition and post-p...

In the field of mixed scanned documents separation, various studies have been carried out to reduce one (or more) unwanted artifacts from the document. Most of the approaches are based on comparison of the front and back sides of the documents. In some cases, it has been proposed to analyze the colored images; however, because of the calculation complexity of the approaches, they are not well a...

The backpropagation learning algorithm has number of parameters such learning rate (η), momentum factor (α) and steepness parameter (λ). whose values are not known in advance, and must be determined by trail and error. The appropriate selection of these parameters have large effect on the convergence of the algorithm. Many techniques that adaptively adjust these parameters have been developed t...

This paper explores teachers’ perceived information quality indicators of Farsi Web-based Learning Resources (WBLRs) for instructional use. This research positions information quality as “information fit for use”, which implies that it is relative, as information considered appropriate for one’s use may not have sufficient attributes for another’s use. The research employs a qualitative case st...

OBJECTIVE Mental disorders are more common among the chemically injured veterans rather the than the normal population. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mustard gas (MG) on mental health and quality-of-life (QOL) in the people exposed to it based on reviewing valid published articles. METHODS We searched English databases including Medline, ISI and Scopus as well as F...

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of group reminiscence therapy on depression symptoms among elderly people attending a day centre in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. A sample of 49 people aged 60+ years participated in 6 group reminiscence sessions that were held twice weekly for a 3-week period and completed a Farsi version of the 15-item geriatric depression scale. Mean...

A new segmentation algorithm for multifont Farsi/Arabic texts based on conditional labeling of up and down contours was presented in [1]. A preprocessing technique was used to adjust the local base line for each subword. Adaptive base line, up and down contours and their curvatures were used to improve the segmentation results. The algorithm segments 97% of 22236 characters in 18 fonts correctl...

This paper presents a set of techniques that we used to improve our keyword search system for the third phase of the DARPA RATS (Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech) program, which seeks to advance state of the art detection capabilities on audio from highly degraded radio communication channels. The results for both Levantine and Farsi, which are the two target languages for the keyword s...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe menopausal symptoms in Iranian women in Tabriz, north-west Islamic Republic of Iran. A total of 200 women aged 45-55 years completed a Farsi version of the Greene climacteric scale. The mean total Greene scores for 20 items (1 item was excluded) were 29.34 (SD 9.84) for perimenopausal and 28.14 (SD 10.15)for postmenopausal women. Perimenopau...

CONTEXT In the present review study, authors investigated Iran's activities regarding prevention, abuse and harm reduction of drugs nationwide. The issue appears to be important in order to show the trend of activities in the country. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION In this report, authors gathered data from different Farsi/English peer review journals issued both in printed and online versions. These j...