background symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) affect health-related quality of life (hrqol). when a questionnaire is translated into a new language, linguistic validation is necessary, yet insufficient, unless the psychometric characteristics have been verified. the aim of this study is to document the translation and psychometric validation of the persian translation of the qu...

An effective novel approach of detection and classification of real face image from tampered face image based on second order gradient is proposed in this paper. The intended purpose of proposed approach is to endorse the biometric authentication, by joining the vitality awareness with Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). The proposed method requires only one face image without requirement of a...

Background: “The aim of this study was to formatively evaluate this module; the broader purpose to assess the usefulness of having an online rather than a face-to-face module on EBM..” The objectives need to be more specific: were the authors trying to evaluate the module in terms of its effectiveness in delivery, userfriendliness or relevance to practice for example? the second half of the sen...

BACKGROUND Carpal tunnel release is one of the most common surgical procedures performed by hand surgeons. The authors created a surgical simulation of open carpal tunnel release utilizing a mobile and rehearsal platform app. This study was performed in order to validate the simulator as an effective training platform for carpal tunnel release. METHODS The simulator was evaluated using a numb...

objectives: the present research aims to prepare an iranian police job satisfaction inventory (ipjsi) by using confirmative factor analysis as well as to evaluate the validity and reliability of it. method: a group consisting of 2933 iranian police employees chosen by stratified random sampling method from a number of police departments throughout the country completed the ipjs inventories. val...

The question whether the recognition of individual faces is mandatory or task-dependent is still controversial. We employed the N250r component of the event-related potential as a marker of the activation of representations of facial identity in visual memory, in order to find out whether identity-related information from faces is encoded and maintained even when facial identity is task-irrelev...

Educational Data Mining (EDM) mainly focuses on educational objectives like students’ academic performance analysis based on personality and informal learning in formal learning environment. The primary objective is to identify the outcome of informal learning style (library and ICT) in formal learning environment. The secondary objectives are analyzing the students’ personalities and purpose o...

The identification of impact craters on a planetary surface has crucial importance for planetary studies because it allows the estimation of the surface age through measures of size and frequency of impacts. Several methods for automatic crater identification have been developed, however none is sufficiently robust to be applied on all planetary surfaces. This dissertation proposes a new approa...