introduction: to evaluate the reliability, validity and feasibility of the persian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory (pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0) generic core scales in iranian healthy students ages 7-15 and chronically ill children ages 2-18. methods: we followed the translation methodology proposed by developer to validate persian version of pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0 generic core scales for c...

this descriptive correlational research sought to examine generic competencies required for university graduates from the points of view of agricultural engineers and mangers in kermanshah province. the study concentrated on the population of public agricultural managers (n= 130) as well as agricultural engineers (who were members of agricultural engineering system organization) in kermanshah p...

‎‎in the category of mordell curves (e_d:y^2=x^3+d) with nontrivial torsion groups we find curves of the generic rank two as quadratic twists of (e_1), ‎and of the generic rank at least two and at least three as cubic twists of (e_1). ‎previous work‎, ‎in the category of mordell curves with trivial torsion groups‎, ‎has found infinitely many elliptic curves with rank at least seven as sextic tw...

face expression recognition is useful for designing new interactive devices offering the possibility of new ways for human to interact with computer systems. in this paper we develop a facial expressions analysis and synthesis system. the analysis part of the system is based on the facial features extracted from facial feature points (ffp) in frontal image sequences. selected facial feature poi...

before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of iran's seventh president, hasan rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. the current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical move...

One of the main concerns of scholars working in the field of EAP over the last 2decades has been raising the awareness of EAP students and publishers of genreconventions in academic journals. In line with the above concern, many studies haveaimed at exploring the general characteristics of research articles (RAs) in the field.Among these features, it seems that the generic moves and textuality ...

BACKGROUND The United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration, as protectors of public health, encourages generic drug development and use so that patients can access affordable medications. The FDA, however, has limited mechanisms to encourage generic drug manufacturing. MAIN RESULTS Generic drug manufacturers make decisions regarding development of products based on expected profitabilit...

The task of object recognition can be classified into two categories: generic and specific. Generic object recognition is to recognize classes of objects such as “a chair” and “a car”. Specific object recognition, on the other hand, is for identifying object instances such as a specific type of chair and car, in other words “the chair” and “the car”. This paper concerns the latter, especially m...