Eliciting numerical estimates from people is a central challenge for psychology. Cognitive biases can affect estimates, making it challenging to measure what people know or believe. We present a novel elicitation method, More-Or-Less Elicitation (MOLE) that, rather than having people make a single, absolute judgment, asks for repeated, relative judgments across the range of possible estimates a...

regarding to the importance of residence in the constitution of the low of islamic republic of iran, in this article housing price and its spatial distribution in mashhad city in account of help to decision making have been invisbiyated. the used data's in this studing, which are exceeded of 775 sample, have been gathered from khorasan newspaper (the needs part) since april 2010 to no nove...

improper drug prescription by physicians due to wrong diagnosis, wrong drug choise or other causes will waste national funds. the annual drug costs in iran is 900 billions rials. with approvement of prescription, it can be reduced to 500 billions rials. effective factors in costs reduction are: 1) increasing medical knowledge and persistent education of physicians. 2) spending more time for eac...

As known, linen and muslin cotton fibers are used in museums excavation areas as packaging materials for first aid of mummies. These with the course long-term exposure to improper surrounding conditions become brittle, fragile, very weak. The current research study aimed evaluate effect guar gum different concentrations consolidation samples. Additionally, work also monitor changes properties t...

We experimentally evaluate program transformations for removing timing side-channel vulnerabilities wrt. security and overhead. Our study of four well-known transformations confirms that their performance overhead differs substantially. A novelty of our work is the empirical investigation of channel bandwidths, which clarifies that the transformations also differ wrt. how much security they add...

A popular social media topic for researchers, practitioners, educators, students from various disciplines is the use of microblogging in academic research. This paper analyses ways in which educators relate to this new web2.0 tool in the research activities they carry out. The methodology puts forward an exploratory approach of the universe of microblogging as a social media tool used for schol...

In a paper called Definiteness and Knowability, Timothy Williamson investigates the question of whether one must accept that vagueness is an epistemic phenomenon if one adopts classical logic and a disquotational principle for truth. Some have thought that one must not, and have argued that classical logic and the disquotational principle can be preserved without accepting that vagueness is an ...

biofilm Dispersing Agent rejuvenates older Antibiotics An estimated 75% of bacterial infections involve biofilms, surface-attached colonies of bacteria that are protected by an extracellular matrix. Bacteria protected within biofilms are up to 1,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than if they were freefloating (planktonic), which severely complicates treatment options. Rather than searchin...