The need of Data mining is because of the explosive growth of data from terabytes to petabytes. Data mining preprocess aims to produce the quality mining result in descriptive and predictive analysis. The quality of a clustering result depends on both the similarity measure used by the method and its implementation. A straightforward way to combine structural and attribute similarities is to us...

Living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. In order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. This paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. First, literature review w...

background: sputum smear examination is the basis of diagnosis of tuberculosis and quality control for the correct diagno­sis of tuberculosis is necessary. this study was a method survey and performed with 930 smears with the aim to compare the confidence rate of sputum smear examination reported by one laboratory technician with the findings reported by two techni­cians in a tuberculosis scree...