BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, which is accompanied by significant disabilities. Although there are some published data regarding the epidemiological features of MS in other parts of Iran, scarce data are available about the prevalence and demographic characteristics of MS in Fars province. The current study ...

This paper presents an investigation into two fuzzy association rule mining models for enhancing prediction performance. The first model (the FCM-Apriori model) integrates Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and the Apriori approach for road traffic performance prediction. FCM is used to define the membership functions of fuzzy sets and the Apriori approach is employed to identify the Fuzzy Association Rules (...

The Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) gathers data on fatal traffic accidents in the United States. Data are collected at the state level for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which publishes results in an Annual Report (NHTSA 1985). An important methodological concern with FARS data is the high level of nonresponse for certain variables, particularly blood alcoho...

Molecular communication (MC) can enable the transfer of information between nanomachines using molecules as carrier. In MC systems, multiple receiver often co-exist in same channel to serve common or different purposes. However, analytical model for a system with fully absorbing receivers (FARs), which is significantly from single FAR due mutual influence FARs, does not exist literature. The es...

zonings of seismicity of fars province in iran and comparison its’ finding to other researches results is aim of this paper. we used statistical method for analyzing recorded earthquakes in study area during 110 years (1900 – 2010), using gis methods for this zoning. by using usgs seismic data of the region and fault maps, excel software and arcgis, we prepare a seismic risk map of study ar...

1 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71345-1583, Shiraz, Iran. 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71468-64685, Shiraz, Iran. 3 Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Fars, Iran. 4 Non...

The purpose of this study was to Survey and identify obstacles of Successful Implementation of Business Strategies in food industry Companies of Fars Province. This research is a mixed method research that combined both quantitative and qualitative research methods. In qualitative part, focus group and in quantitative part inferential and descriptive research was applied. In order to inferentia...