delphi as a consensus development technique enables anonymous, systematic refinement of expert opinion with the aim of arriving at a combined or consensual position. in this study, we determined the criteria and their weights for iranian medical schools' ranking through a delphi process. an expert committee devised 13 proposed criteria with 32 indicators with their weights, which were arranged ...

opinion mining deals with an analysis of user reviews for extracting their opinions, sentiments and demands in a specific area, which can play an important role in making major decisions in such area. in general, opinion mining extracts user reviews at three levels of document, sentence and feature. opinion mining at the feature level is taken into consideration more than the other two levels d...

BACKGROUND Different kinds of physical activity (PA) self-monitoring technologies are used today to monitor and motivate PA behavior change. The user focus is essential in the development process of this technology, including potential future users such as representatives from the group of non-users. There is also a need to study whether there are differences between the groups of users and non...

The paper sets out to study Norwegians’ experiences of non-monogamy. Data were collected by questionnaires in a web sample 4160 Norwegians (18–89 years). 26.3% men and 17.8% women reported that they ever had non-consensual Consensual non-monogamy was 3%. Compared participants with no or experience, consensual highly related relationship intimacy positive sexual attitudes toward sex sexuality. A...

in the civil procedures act 1379 the act reference of arbitration is stipulated in agreement and arbitration clause due to no exact order of arbitration contract class. however, the civil law relies on the basis of consensual contracts. in contrast, the international commercial law relies on the arbitration contract as written form. according to the international commercial law, the arbitration...

the age of maturity is one of the most important issues in the jurisprudence book” hijr”. the shiite and sunnite jurisprudents discussing prohibition of repossessing the properties deals with the maturity conditions. in this part they study maturity age of male and female and neuter. in this article jurisprudentially researching the writer reviews the verses and riwayas and jurisprudents’ opini...

the sampling method is simple random sampling. in order to measure women's social adjustment social adjustment scale (sas) was used.there is a significant relationship between women and motherhood in social attitudes. consensual relationships between people and tends to be a mother, there is a significant relationship. the social adjustment of status after marriage roles as wives and mothe...

I use friendships to define trust and collaboration in Second Life. A friendship is created when one resident asks another to be a friend, and the other accepts. During the observation period, the inquiry could be made by right-clicking on the potential friend's avatar or instant messaging the avatar. Thirty-one percent of the study population had one or more friends. These data have some immed...