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...

BACKGROUND Data from the Iranian population for hypomania core symptom clusters are lacking. The aim of the present study was therefore to apply the Farsi version of the Hypomania-Check-List 32 (HCL-32), and to explore its factorial structure. METHODS A total of 163 Iranian out-patients took part in the study; 61 suffered from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and 102 suffered from Bipolar Dis...

Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background Dustin Crowther The current study investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of comprehensibility and accentedness in second language (L2) speech. The participants were 60 university-level adult speakers of English from four L1 backgrounds (Chinese, Romance, Hindi, Farsi), with 15 spe...

In recent years, the unit selection-based concatenative speech synthesis method using a large corpus has attracted great attention. This method provides more natural quality speech compared to the parameter driven methods. The Formant Synthesis, HNM method and use of MLSA filter are the prevalent methods for synthesizing Farsi speech. In this paper, we present the structure of a proposed unit s...

OBJECTIVES Cephalometric norms of McNamara analysis have been studied in various populations due to their optimal efficiency. Dolphin cephalometric software greatly enhances the conduction of this analysis for orthodontic measurements. However, Dolphin is very expensive and cannot be afforded by many clinicians in developing countries. A suitable alternative software program in Farsi/English wi...

A new method for segmentation of unconstrained handwritten numeral strings is proposed, and its performance in segmentation of handwritten Farsi and English numeral strings is compared. Our segmentation method uses a combination of features from the foreground and background of the image. In order to find foreground features, an algorithm based on skeleton tracing is introduced for the first ti...

Farsi Handwriting Word Recognition (FHWR), especially those with different orientation and scale changes as well as different handwriting style, is a challenging and important problem in document image analysis. This paper proposes a holistic FHWR scheme using local features of M-Band packet wavelet. The rotation and scale invariant local feature extraction for a given word image involves apply...

Objectives. The aim of this study was to validate the breastfeeding experience scale (BES) in a sample of Iranian mothers. Methods. After translation and back translation of the BES, an expert panel evaluated the items by assessing the content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI). 347 of mothers visiting health centers completed the Farsi version of the BES in the first month p...

BACKGROUND Child-parent agreement is a controversial aspect of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess the agreement between the child self-reports and parent proxy reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module in Iranian children with asthma to evaluate HRQoL. Moreover, the psychometric properties of the child and parent repor...

background: the aim of this study was to validate the farsi version of rome iii modular questionnaire which contains all functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids). materials and methods: we used rome foundation guidelines for translation of english version into farsi, and all the steps were performed. in the first step, 2 forward translations into farsi were completed by two authors separat...