I have enjoyed reading the work of each of these authors over the years, so it is a real pleasure to have this opportunity to contribute to the discussion of this collaboration. The geometry of LARS furnishes an elegant bridge between the Lasso and Stagewise regression, methods that I would not have suspected to be so related. Toward my own interests, LARS offers a rather different way to const...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of Iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. METHODS In this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of Iran 31 provinces. The o...

alfalfa (medicago sativa) is among a few of the most important forage crops for the growth of which hamedan province benefits from a suitable climate. alfalfa bacterial wilt disease induced by clavibacter michiganensis subsp. insidiosus cause substantial economic crop losses. this disease has not been so far investigated extensively in hamedan province. in the course of this survey affected pla...

b a ckground : this study aimed to identify and determine the larval and adult mosquitoes (culicidae) fauna in hamedan county, western iran. m e t hods: it was a cross-sectional study which took place in four area of the hamedan county. sampling methods for larvae, pupae and adults were dipping, hand catch, night catch and total catch. larvae and adult mosquitoes col- lected and were sent to la...

Librarian in Charge of Library, Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Master Student, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Qom Payame Noor University, Qom, Iran *Corresponding Author; E-mail: simaesmaeilza...

INTRODUCTION Presence of committed personnel in each organization not only reduces their absenteeism, delays, and displacements but also leads to a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency of an organization, mental freshness of employees, better manifestation of noble objectives, and organizational mission as well as fulfillment of personal goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study wa...

Being able to reliably, and automatically, select variables in linear regression models is a notoriously difficult problem. This research attacks this question head on, introducing not only a computationally efficient algorithm and method, LARS (and its derivatives), but at the same time introducing comprehensive theory explaining the intricate details of the procedure as well as theory to guid...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the convergent and discriminative validity and reliability of the low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) score in an international setting. BACKGROUND The LARS score is a simple self-administered questionnaire measuring bowel dysfunction after rectal cancer surgery. The score is intended to be commonly used in international research and cli...