this work aims to extract the mineralogical constituents of the lahroud hyperion scene situated in the nw of iran. like the other push-broom sensors, hyperion images suffer from spectral distortions, namely the smile effect. the corresponding spectral curvature is defined as an across-track wavelength shift from the nominal central wavelength, and alters the pixel spectra. the common “column me...

Background: Health insurance literacy is a nascent concept that has emerged mainly after the implementation of the law known as Obamacare in the United States. This study seeks to identify the themes of health insurance literacy in Iranian society. Methods: The study approach is qualitative. Data were collected using nine semi-structured interviews, ten focal group meetings with the presence o...

Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidden) knowledge for improving business processes the application of data mining technology is the only way for reaching good and efficient results, as opposed to purely manual and interactive data exploration. This paper ...

This paper examines risk in the insurance industry, discusses some initial thoughts on how intelligent applications can be used to model, understand and control risk and describes a recent use of natural language processing in insurance underwriting. elements. Not surprisingly risk and the mathematics associated with risk namely probability and statistics were accepted and advanced at insurance...

Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidden) knowledge for improving business processes the application of data mining technology is the only way for reaching good and efficient results, as opposed to purely manual and interactive data exploration. This paper ...

agriculture sector in iran and some other countries of the world has a vital role in national development. animal husbandry sub-sector needed meat of the society, creating related jobs and producing raw materials of some industries. acquiring scientific and sound information of the current situation of regions are important and imitative step in improvement program planning. the purpose of this...

abstract: background: today one of the main problems low or middle income families face is financing healthcare costs. this article studies the methods of of financing health care costs among hospitalized diabetic patients in different types of insurances. materials & methods: this is a causal-comparative study. the variables consist of comparative (health care costs) and categorical(different ...