Bats are a complex and diverse group, making their study remarkably challenging. Several methods allow the of bats, e.g. mist-nets acoustic monitoring (AM). We compare use AM to inventory bats in mountainous region São Paulo state, Brazil. provide species list for area based on registered with both methodologies, comparing known obtained from literature. calculated beta diversity between method...

INTRODUCTION Rhinoplasty is a popular cosmetic surgical procedure. Informal statistics show that Iran has one of the highest rates of rhinoplasty in the world. However, rhinoplasty like any other surgery can have complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 320 female students were selected by multistage cluster-stratified sampling from high schools in Kerman, Iran and ...

We present a sweep-based approach to modeling and deformation of three-dimensional objects. We approximate the deformable parts of an object using sweep surfaces. The vertices on the object boundary are bound to the sweep surfaces and then follow their deformation. For practical applications, we apply this approach to 3D human body modeling and deformation, and then extend it to the freeform de...

BACKGROUND Elucidating the epidemiological status of injuries is a critical component of preventive strategies in countries with high incidence of injuries, like Iran. Population-based surveys are able to estimate all types of non-fatal injuries. OBJECTIVES This study protocol is the core unit in describing Iran's national cost and epidemiology of non-fatal injuries, and also as a guide for o...

Census counts are subject to different types of nonsampling errors. One of these main errors is coverage error. Undercount and overcount are two types of coverage error. Undercount usually occurs more than the other, thus net undercount estimation is important. There are various methods for estimating the coverage error in censuses. One of these methods is dual system (DS) that usually uses dat...

AIM In the current survey, we explored the prevalence of verbal and physical abuse against the nurses in different hospitals of north of Iran. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey. Nurses were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire (Staff Observation Scale Revised (SOAS-R)). The sample covered 400 participants from 5 hospitals of Mazandaran University of medical sciences, Sar...

In this paper, a new structure for cooperative learning automata called extended learning automata (eDLA) is introduced. Based on the new structure, an iterative randomized heuristic algorithm using sampling is proposed for finding an optimal subgraph in a stochastic edge-weighted graph. Stochastic graphs are graphs in which the weights of edges have an unknown probability distribution. The pro...