religious values were investigated in a group of iranian revolutionary guards in tehran.the sample consisted of official duty troops and conscripts who were in prison due to a crime. one hundred thirty seven individuals cooperated with us in the project (37 official personnel and 100 conscripts). the instruments used included a demographic questionnaire containing personal data and the allport,...

MOTIVATION High-dimensional data such as microarrays have created new challenges to traditional statistical methods. One such example is on class prediction with high-dimension, low-sample size data. Due to the small sample size, the sample mean estimates are usually unreliable. As a consequence, the performance of the class prediction methods using the sample mean may also be unsatisfactory. T...

The formal expression of pro positional attitudes, especially when nested (iterated), is an important problem for A I . An interesting first-order extensional logical system for such expression has been proposed by Creary. In this system concepts (and concepts of concepts, etc.) are made explicit. The system includes "concept functions", which are special functions which act on and deliver conc...

background: breast cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer among women worldwide so that, if detected in early stages, it would be controllable. mammography is considered as the most exact means of detecting breast cancer in the earlier stages. this study evaluated and compared the effectiveness of three educational interventions on knowledge and health beliefs regarding breast cancer sc...