introduction: c - reactive protein (crp) is an acute-phase plasma protein that can be used as a marker of activation of the immune system. in response to several inflammatory reactions,the concentration of crp increases and recently have been applicated as a cancer detector in some studies. we aimed to evaluate the relation between crp level and the staging and grading of gastric and colon mali...

Short answer scoring systems typically use regular expressions, templates or logic expressions to detect the presence of specific terms or concepts among student responses. Previous work has shown that manually developed regular expressions can provide effective scoring, however manual development can be quite time consuming. In this work we present a new approach that uses word-order graphs to...

Although pharmacological treatment constitutes the main therapeutic approach for depression, non-pharmacological treatments (self-care or psychotherapeutic approach) are usually regarded as more essential therapeutic approaches in clinical practice. However, there have been few clinical practice guidelines concerning self-care or psychotherapy in the management of depression. This study introdu...

There are many methods having different approaches for assessing similarity and relatedness and they are used in many application areas, including web service discovery, invocation and composition, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, ontology alignment and merging, document clustering, and short answer grading. These methods can be categorized as path-based, information content-ba...

The vast number of different types of examinations together with the considerable broadness of scientific fields to be covered presents a strong challenge for all academic institutions. So far, many eLearning environments offering electronic examination tools face a severe problem in their acceptance through the academic community since their evaluation methods are usually restricted to simple ...