background and objectives: spiritual intelligence makes a major contribution to people’s health and well-being. since religion is considered as an enriched context for muslim communities, which can provide them with spiritual experiences, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire in order to assess spiritual intelligence among people in these communities. methods: in thi...

Recently suggested non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) seems to overcome fundamental limitations of factor analysis at least in theoretical aspect. NMF cost function uses Poisson statistics as a noise model, rather than the Gaussian statistics, and provides a simple learning rule, in contrast to the tricky optimization in factor analysis. To study the feasibility of NMF for the analysis of ...

-Recently suggested non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) seems to overcome fundamental limitations of factor analysis at least in theoretical aspect. NMF cost function uses Poisson statistics as a noise model, rather than the Gaussian statistics, and provides a simple learning rule, in contrast to the tricky optimization in factor analysis. To study the feasibility of NMF for the analysis of...

background: increasing prevalence of obesity is a major health concern. lifestyle behaviors and diet play an important role in developing childhood obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between major dietary patterns and overweight/obesity in a group of iranian school‑aged children. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in isfahan, iran with 637 elementary ...