purpose: manuscripts as written works of past generations are important collections in research and university libraries in iran. they convey useful information about different subject areas. the need to this enormous amount of information emphasis on their organization and the application of the new electronic information technologies. methodology: regarding to the presence of more than 5,000 ...

This study compared the effect of prolonged moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on reducing abdominal visceral fat in obese young women with that of work-equivalent (300 kJ/training session) high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Forty-three participants received either HIIT (n = 15), MICT (n = 15), or no training (CON, n = 13) for 12 weeks. The abdominal visceral fat area (AVFA) an...

The history of Persian as an imperial language, as a vehicle of cultural continuities, and as a focus of communal identity, whether of an ethnic, religious, aesthetic, or intellectual nature, is one of the great sagas of civilization. As such, it demands comparison with similar stories if we are to understand the processes at work, both in their general similarities and in their specific differ...

Thesaurus alignment plays an important role in realising efficient access to heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data. Current ontology alignment techniques, however, provide only limited value for such access as they consider little if any requirements from realistic use cases or application scenarios. In this paper, we focus on two real-world scenarios in a library context: thesaurus merging and ...

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal disease that is accompanied by pain, diarrhea, constipation and abdominal bloating. Hence, IBS has a major effect on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to examine validity and reliability of the Persian version of the IBS-QOL questionnaire in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS The original 34 items of the IBS...

The purpose of this article is to briefly introduce an interactive P.O.S. tagging system developed as a project at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies in Tehran, Iran. The system is designed as part of the annotation procedure for a Persian corpus called The Farsi Linguistic Database (FLDB), and is the first attempt ever to tag a Persian corpus. In section I, the project itself wi...

In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), passed by the federal government, included a requirement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services develop outcome measures for child welfare agencies. There had been ongoing concerns about the state of the foster care system, which seemed to continue to grow each decade with disproportionate levels of racial and ethnic minorities ...

Considering the art of Persian rug design as a computation creative design problem, with a vast domain space of possible design solutions that have aesthetic, cultural and historical considerations, we describe our dual stage genetic algorithm system for designing basic patterns of a specific type of Persian rugs. Our approach uses hard and soft design rules that we have been gleaned from the p...