aim and background: alexithymia or emotional inhibition is an important risk factor for psychosomatic disorders such as gastrointestinal disorders. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the dimensions of alexithymia with depression and anxiety in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid). methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlation study, 129 pat...

this paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of borodino has three dimensions including: conceptual dimension, real dimension and finalized dimen...

We asses the ability of a distance correlation coefficient (DiCC), calculated from distance covariance, for detecting long-range concerted motion in proteins. We establish a set of criteria for ideal correlation coefficient values based on the coefficient of determination in multi-dimension, R2. We compare in detail DiCC and conventional coefficients against these criteria. We demonstrate that ...

This paper employs a general non-linear analysis tool to analyse the nature of time series associated with the price (returns) of a particular company in Tehran Stock Exchange. It is shown that the behavior of the process associated with the price (returns) time-series of this company is weakly chaotic, and due to the non-random behavior of the process, short term prediction of stock price is p...