background: the gail model has been widely used for estimation of absolute risk of breast cancer development. the original model and most of the validation studies have been performed among western populations and controversial results have been reported regarding the applicability of this model in asian populations. our aim was to investigate the performance of this model in iranian women. met...

background: the main purpose of this study was to assess the factorial validity and reliability of the iranian versions of the personality and behavior system scales (49 items) of the ahdq ( the adolescent health and development questionnaire ) and interrelations among them based on jessor's pbt (problem behavior theory) . methods: a multi-staged approach was employed. the cross-cultural adapta...

coupled -shear walls are one of lateral load resisting systems in high and medium rise reinforced concrete buildings. the lateral structural response is exactly dependents on the shear walls behavior; therefore these elements must response well whenundergodifferent load conditions. the structures located in near-source region behave differently compared to those in near-source sites when subjec...

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713618269 Behavior in Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Games with Shifted Outcomes Analyzed with a Statistical Learning Model Marcel Van Assen a; Chris Snijders b; Jeroen Weesie c a Tilburg University, The Netherlands b Eindhoven ...

a simple but novel and applicable approach is proposed to solve the problem of smoothing effect of ordinary kriging estimate which is widely used in mining and earth sciences. it is based on transformation equation in which z scores are derived from ordinary kriging estimates and then rescaled by the standard deviation of sample data and the sample mean is added to the result. it bears the grea...