Some Areas of Ramsar, a city in northern Iran are among the world’s wellknown inhabited areas with highest levels of natural radiation. Annual exposure levels in these areas are up to 260 mGy y‐1 and the mean exposure rate is about 10 mGy y‐1 for a population of about 2000 residents. If elevated levels of natural radiation as high as a few hundred mSv per year is detrimental to health and...

OBJECTIVES Determine effects of a limited-enforcement intelligent tutoring system in dermatopathology on student errors, goals and solution paths. Determine if limited enforcement in a medical tutoring system inhibits students from learning the optimal and most efficient solution path. Describe the type of deviations from the optimal solution path that occur during tutoring, and how these devia...

OBJECTIVES Internal medicine residents often provide hospital care for patients who are admitted from and discharged to nursing homes. This pilot study surveyed internal medicine residents for their assumptions and perceptions about demographics and regulations in the nursing home setting. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Internal medicine residents at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, ...

according to the report published by the united nations scientific committee on the effects of atomic radiation (unscear) in 2000, ramsar city in northern iran, has some inhabited areas with the highest known natural background radiation levels in the world (1). the annual radiation absorbed dose in high background radiation areas (hbras) of ramsar is extraordinary high, reaching 260 msv that i...

We consider nonparametric estimation of conditional medians for time series data. The time series data are generated from two mutually independent linear processes. The linear processes may show long-range dependence. The estimator of the conditional medians is based on minimizing the locally weighted sum of absolute deviations for local linear regression. We present the asymptotic distribution...

The theory of large deviations for jump Markov processes has been generally proved only when jump rates are bounded below, away from zero (Dupuis and Ellis, 1995, The large deviations principle for a general class of queueing systems I. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 2689–2751; Ignatiouk-Robert, 2002, Sample path large deviations and convergence parameters. Ann. Appl. Probab. 11 1292–1329; Shwartz...

one of the effective ways of highlighting deviations in language and familiar tool that has many applications in poetry .contact the effect, expanded the meaning of the text and therefore the production of literary pleasure. contemporary iranian poetry, especially in recent times with the use of deviations in different ways, in different works of beauty and creating a harmonious society is emer...