Objective: The use of medicinal plants in diabetic patients is rising, it is essential to increase knowledge about the effects of medicinal plants and subsequently perform evidence-based action, so, review studies are a helpful way for the present purpose. Current study was conducted to investigate the clinical trials of medicinal plants used in the treatment of diabetes in Iran. Materials an...

Quality control in industrial and service systems requires the correct setting of input factors by which the outputs result at minimum cost with desirable characteristics. There are often more than one input and output in such systems. Response surface methodology in its multiple variable forms is one of the most applied methods to estimate and improve the quality characteristics of products wi...

BACKGROUND While several tests and strategies are recommended for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, studies suggest that primary care providers often recommend colonoscopy without providing information about its risks or alternatives. These observations raise concerns about the quality of informed consent for screening colonoscopy. METHODS We conducted a telephone survey (August 2008 to Sept...

This paper describes a new course in parallel programming at the University of Oslo that emphasis thread based parallel programming in Java on multicore computers. The quality of a parallel algorithm is evaluated by its speedup, since the main reason for making a parallel algorithm is to create a faster program. This course stresses that there are many possible correct parallel algorithms for a...

Change detection in the HyperSpectral Imagery (HSI) detects changed pixels or areas bi-temporal images. HSIs contain hundreds of spectral bands, including a large amount information. However, most deep learning-based change methods did not focus on dependency information dimension and just adopted difference strategy to represent correlation learned features, which limited improvement performan...

Abstract Background: Despite the importance of functional-performance deficits in athletes with history of ankle sprain few, studies have been carried out in this area. The aim of this research was to study relationship between previous ankle sprains and functional-performance deficits in athletes. Materials and methods: The subjects were 40 professional athletes selected through random sampl...

Statistical language models can learn relationships between topics discussed in a document collection and persons, organizations and places mentioned in each document. We present a novel combination of statistical topic models and named-entity recognizers to jointly analyze entities mentioned (persons, organizations and places) and topics discussed in a collection of 330,000 New York Times news...

In (Enciso and Mora, 2002) we introduce the Functional Dependencies Data Dictionary (FD3) as an architecture to facilitate the integration of database Systems. We propose the use of logics based on the notion of Functional Dependencies (FD) to allows formal specification of the objects of a data model and to conceive future automated treatment. The existence of a FD logic provides a formal lang...