OBJECTIVE The objective was to study the cultural structure of Farsi-speaking parents' ratings with diagnostic definitions of ADHD. METHOD The children with ADHD and their parents were interviewed. The parents rated their children on the Farsi-speaking parents' ADHD rating questionnaire. RESULTS The principal components analysis extracted the two factors of inattention and hyperactivity- im...

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded longitudinally for nearly seven months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is made ...

In this paper we have tried to model, design and test a prototype of Farsi/English search engine. The engine has the duty of covering the web media features such as heterogeneity, volatility and huge amount of unstructured worldwide information. These features as well as the rapid advance in technology, challenge the effectiveness of classical Information Retrieval (IR) techniques. Although a g...

The Investigation of the effect maltitol replacement with sugar also antibacterial and improvement texture farsi gum on physicochemical, microbial sensory properties cake in storage period

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the digital encoding of printed and handwritten characters from an image file created through a scanner or other optical imaging devices. In other words, OCR is a software program that converts image-texts into computerized or digital text (figure 1) . While OCR has been extensively used as the basic application of different learning methods in machine lea...

Writer identification recently has been studied and it has a wide variety of applications. Most studies are based on English documents with the assumption that the written text is fixed (text-dependent methods) and no research has been reported on Farsi or Arabic documents. In this paper, we have proposed a method for off-line writer identification based on Farsi handwriting, which is text-inde...

Displaying a document in Middle Eastern languages requires contextual analysis due to different presentational forms for each character of the alphabet. The words of the document will be formed by the joining of the correct positional glyphs representing corresponding presentational forms of the characters. A set of rules defines the joining of the glyphs. As usual, these rules vary from langua...

This paper presents a new comprehensive database for isolated offline handwritten Farsi/Arabic numbers and characters for use in optical character recognition research. The database is freely available for academic use. So far no such a freely database in Farsi language is available. Grayscale images of 52,380 characters and 17,740 numerals are included. Each image was scanned from Iranian scho...

BACKGROUND Fear of childbirth may cause complications such as experiencing severe labour pain, postpartum depression, and impaired mother-fetus attachment. OBJECTIVE To validate the Farsi version of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) (versions A & B) in a sample of Iranian women. METHODS The WDE-Q (versions A & B) was translated into Farsi, and the content validi...