in this study, 52 specimens of adult indian gerbil (tatera indica) were collected by live traps (sherman traps, havahart traps and locally made traps) from range of different habitats of two localities, geno protected area (or geno biosphere reserve) and minab county, hormozgan province. at first, external, cranial and dental characters were measured and then the ratio of measured characters to...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether animal-assisted therapy is effective in the rehabilitation of middle-aged schizophrenic patients living in a social institution. DESIGN A before and after study with nine-month treatment period. SETTING Social institute for psychiatric patients. SUBJECTS Seven schizophrenic patients living in the social institute. INTERVENTIONS Weekly sessions of animal-a...

We study the sample complexity of learning neural networks, by providing new bounds on their Rademacher complexity assuming norm constraints on the parameter matrix of each layer. Compared to previous work, these complexity bounds have improved dependence on the network depth, and under some additional assumptions, are fully independent of the network size (both depth and width). These results ...

There is little doubt that the elderly population of the world is growing. The greatest growth in this segment of society happens to be in the industrialized nations and is becoming a serious public policy issue, which will have a dramatic economic impact. Many approaches to solving this problem have been presented from various perspectives. In the current work, we examine the challenges associ...

Testing linear combinations of normal group means with unequal variances and possibly unequal samples sizes using a t-statistic is a well known problem for which the effective degrees of freedom are unknown. ? and ? set forth their approximations based on the ratio of combinations of fourth moments, and their methodology remains the de facto standard. We propose a new approach that extends thei...

Authentication of quantum sources is a crucial task in building reliable and efficient protocols for quantum-information processing. Steady progress vis-\`{a}-vis verification devices the scenario with fully characterized measurement has been observed recent years. When it comes to uncharacterized measurements, so-called black-box scenario, practical methods are still rather scarce. Development...

Sir, Concerns have been expressed that most general practitioners remain unaware of the services and facilities provided by geriatric day hospitals,1 and research has shown that general practitioners fail to distinguish between the therapeutic functions of geriatric day hospitals and the social care provided by day centres.2 It has been argued, therefore, that general practitioners need to be m...

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of group counseling using relaxation technique reading Qur'an reduce stress academic students. stress. type research is quantitative research. The method used quasi-experimental, nonquivalent control design. Data analysis independent sample t test. in this amounted 16 people, 8 people for experimental and group. collection was carried out scale. Ba...