patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 1202 ms patients in farshchian hospital, hamadan, in 2013. all patients were diagnosed with definite ms. a questionnaire was used to gather information; demographic characteristics, medical history, signs and symptoms at onset, course of disease, relatives with ms, and degree and type of relationship were recorded. conclusions the...

background: marriage causes family and from a point of view it is a social symbol   which is reflection of whole society. one of the forms of marriage is family marriage. these kind of marriage are important in human heredity (heritage), according to social, cultural and economic conditions, this pattern of marriage is different between the countries and even inside a specific country. as famil...

When applying the support vector machine (SVM) to highdimensional classification problems, we often impose a sparse structure in the SVM to eliminate the influences of the irrelevant predictors. The lasso and other variable selection techniques have been successfully used in the SVM to perform automatic variable selection. In some problems, there is a natural hierarchical structure among the va...