with the arrivalof modernityin iranthe society normshave changedandtraditional patterns,especially family pattern, has been under various changes simultaneously. for instance,theaverage age of marriagefor girlshas increased over the past decades. this paper aims todetermine and analyze factors affecting the gap in women’s behavior and attitudes ontheappropriate age ofmarriage for girlsin the ci...

In this paper we present an improved version of the Probabilistic Ant based Clustering Algorithm for Distributed Databases (PACE). The most important feature of this algorithm is the formation of numerous zones in different sites based on corresponding user queries to the distributed database. Keywords, extracted out of the queries, are used to assign a range of values according to their corres...

We give the motivation for scoring clustering algorithms and a metric M : A → N from the set of clustering algorithms to the natural numbers which we realize as M(A) = ∑ i αi|fi − βi| wi (0.1) where αi, βi, wi are parameters used for scoring the feature fi, which is computed empirically.. We give a method by which one can score features such as stability, noise sensitivity, etc and derive the n...

Nevertheless, one cannot exclude underreporting of SAB by EARSS participating hospitals since EARSS is a voluntary reporting system. For example, England reported 18,403 SAB cases or an incidence of 37 SAB per 100,000 inhabitants from April 2002 to March 2003 through its mandatory surveillance scheme (5), whereas an estimate for the United Kingdom from the EARSS database would only give 7,800 S...

A major goal of structural genomics is the provision of a structural template for a large fraction of protein domains. The magnitude of this task depends on the number and nature of protein sequence families. With a large number of bacterial genomes now fully sequenced, it is possible to obtain improved estimates of the number and diversity of families in that kingdom. We have used an automated...

This paper explores cancer family clustering in a random sample of patients registered in the Jordan National Cancer Registry for the year 1999, the most recent year that complete data were available. A special instrument was designed and data collected through personal interviews. Of the final sample of 707 cancer patients, 23% had a positive family history of cancer, 59% of which was first-de...