Objective: Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD) has two subtypes, care-seeking type, and care-avoidant. There is little information about the differences between the two subtypes.  Methods: This study was carried out to compare perfectionism and tolerance of ambiguity in the subtypes of the IAD. To this end, a causal-comparative design was employed. The statistical population of the study included t...

Abstract Ever since the publication of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, there’s been a raging debate in philosophy language over whether meaning thought are, some sense, normative. Most participants normativity wars seem to agree that uses meaningful expressions are semantically correct while disagreeing this entails anything But what is it say use an expression correct? On ...

OBJECTIVES Despite restrictions, mercury continues to pose a health concern. Mercury has the ability to deposit in most parts of the body and can cause a wide range of unspecific symptoms leading to diagnostic mistakes. METHODS AND RESULTS We report the case of severe mercury vapour poisoning after occupational exposure in a chloralkali plant worker that resulted in life-threatening respirato...

Little is known about the etiology of the links between sleep disturbance and anxiety and perfectionism. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of components of perfectionism and anxiety in anticipation of sleep quality in students. The statistical population of this research consisted of all the Shiraz University’s students in the academic year 2012-2013 (1391-1392s.c.). The sampl...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can be very useful in language learning tools in order to correct mistakes in the pronunciation of foreign words by non-native speakers. Most of the systems integrating ASR proposed on the market are just rejecting or accepting whole words or whole sentences. In this paper, we propose a method to identify the pronunciation errors at the phoneme level. Indeed, ...