background: self-immolation and intentional poisoning are two common methods for suicidal attempts in developing countries. few studies have compared the characteristics of people who commit suicide by self-immolation or intentional poisoning. hence, the aim of this study was to compare demographic, social, and psychological features between these two groups. methods: in the present study, pati...

Distributed transactional systems require an atomic commitment protocol to preserve atomicity of the ACID properties. However, the industry leading standard, 2PC, is slow and adds a significant overhead to transaction processing. In this paper, a new atomic commitment protocol for main-memory primarybackup systems, C2PC, is proposed. It exploits replication to avoid disk-logging and performs th...

Repetition has been shown to increase subjective truth ratings of trivia statements. This truth effect can be measured in two ways: (a) as the increase in subjective truth from the first to the second encounter (within-items criterion) and (b) as the difference in truth ratings between repeated and other new statements (between-items criterion). Qualitative differences are assumed between the p...

A methodology is proposed for extracting information on land cover based on hyperspectral reflectance data derived from satellite image, without supervising with ground truth. The reflectance percentage, being a characteristic feature of the ground object acts as an indirect guidance to the classification and hence the method is named semi-supervised classification. It is tried with IRS LISS IV...