This article presents the results of research into the automatic selection of Library of Congress Classification numbers based on the titles and subject headings in MARC records. The method used in this study was based on partial match retrieval techniques using various elements of new records (i.e., those to be classified) as “queries,” and a test database of classification clusters generated ...

Iran and blogging. Most of us, when encountering the relationship between the two, would probably think about conservatism and the extent of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrests of some prominent Iranian bloggers, such as Hussein Derakshan, popularised through the Western media would also spring to mind. But not many of us would know that Persian is one of the most used languages...

A cluster random sample of 1073 students in the Islamic Republic of Iran (mean age 14.37 years) completed a self-report questionnaire consisting of an exercise measure, selected constructs of Pender's health promotion model and an assessment of stages of behaviour change in exercise. In multivariate discriminant analysis, exercise self-efficacy, perceived barriers to exercise, perceived benefit...

Shervin Amiri , Nasser Ojaroudi , Mohammad Ojaroudi 3 1 Scientific Member of Electrical Engineering, Department of Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 2 Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 3 Young Research Club, Ardabil Branch, Islamic A...