There is a worldwide rapid increase of interest in, demand for, and use of complementary, alternative or unconventional medicine (CAM), by the general population. Patients are becoming more and more worried about issues such as the side effects and toxicity of many conventional drugs –in fact a major cause of death and hospitalization–, the growing resistance to antibiotics, and the inability o...

Ridge orientation is one of the fundamental features of a fingerprint image. Orientation estimation serves for feature extraction and matching and is the base of fingerprint recognition. Most existing orientation estimation methods are based on the characteristic of pixel intensity in a block. This paper uses neural network to learn the ridge orientation. The trained network has the property of...

today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

The  present  study  attempted  to  examine  the  relationship  between  English  as  a  Foreign Language  (EFL)  learners’ motivational beliefs and their use of learning strategies. The three components  of  motivation,  i.e.  expectancy  component,  value  component  and  affective component,  were  examined  in  relation  to  metacognitive,  cognitive  and  effort  management strategies.  Tw...

First, the optimization procedure was not explained clearly. The authors estimated global minimum of the cost function by starting at 20 different random “first guest” points. It was not clear which model outputs were used in the calculation, fAPAR, SOS, EOS, or GSL? Did the 20 points mean 20 sets of parameters that change at the same time, or 20 different values for each individual parameter w...