objective: acceptance-based behavior therapy (abbt) is a new psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder (gad). the current study intended to compare severity of symptoms, worry and quality of life of gad female patients between abbt and control. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. the sample included 18 women with gad referred to psychiatrists in isfahan, iran. patients wer...

The astronomical database SIMBAD developed at the Centre de Donn ees de Strasbourg CDS currently contains about one million objects stellar and non stellar all described by heterogeneous data bibliographical references measurements and identi ers SIMBAD supplies the existing links between the di erent synonym names of one object and describes astronomical objects with information coming from th...

Net analyte signal statistical quality control (NAS-SQC) is a new methodology to perform multivariate product quality monitoring based on the net analyte signal approach. The main advantage of NAS-SQC is that the systematic variation in the product due to the analyte (or property) of interest is separated from the remaining systematic variation due to all other compounds in the matrix. This enh...

The monitoring, fault detection and visualization of defects are a strategic issue for product quality. This paper presents a novel methodology based on the integration of textural Multivariate image analysis (MIA) and multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) for process monitoring. The proposed approach combines MIA and p-control charts, as well as T 2 and RSS images for defect location...

Health care provision supplies and integrates services for both acute and long-term care to an aging but still very active population. We suggest better methods for monitoring the health diagnostic and treatment services of care providers. In particular, we examine the construction and use of industrial quality control methods as applied to the health care providers in both the prevention and c...