conclusions although most studies have reported low and weak quality of life in addicts, the findings of this study shows that the life quality score of addicts is rather good. it seems that the maintenance treatment that addicts receive in addiction cessation centers has been effective in improving the quality of life of the patients. hence, expanding methadone treatment centers can play a lea...

background: increasing attention to the concept of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) health-related quality of life has led to the development of tool that aims to measure this concept. objective: the purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review of psychometric properties of the pcos health-related quality of life questionnaire. materials and methods: a search of database (pubmed, ps...

Nous introduisons dans cet article le concept de dimension orthographique d'un objet O correspondant a la dimension maximale des objets composants O 1 ; :::; O n tels que O = O 1 O n. Nous montrons que pour une classe de requ^ etes bien d eenie, l' evaluation peut s'eeectuer ind ependamment sur chaque composant. Ce r esultat montre que l'on peut manipuler des donn ees g eom etriques dans un esp...

The statistical problem of estimating the effective dimension-reduction (EDR) subspace in the multi-index regression model with deterministic design and additive noise is considered. A new procedure for recovering the directions of the EDR subspace is proposed. Many methods for estimating the EDR subspace perform principal component analysis on a family of vectors, say β̂1, . . . , β̂L, nearly ly...

Block layout dimension prediction is an important activity in many VLSI design tasks (structural synthesis, oorplanning and physical synthesis). Block layout dimension prediction is harder than block area prediction and has been previously considered to be intractable [6]. In this paper we present a solution to this problem using a neural network machine learning paradigm. Our method uses a neu...

We present an analysis of the effects of global topology on the structural stability of folded proteins in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath. For a large class of single domain proteins, we computed the harmonic spectrum within the Gaussian Network Model (GNM) and determined their spectral dimension, a parameter describing the low frequency behavior of the density of modes. We found a surpri...

Three aspects of texture are considered by the fractal geometry: Fractal Dimension (FD), Lacunarity and Succolarity. Fractal Dimension has been well studied; a great number of approaches have been presented to extract it from images. It can be computed from black-white to multi-band image. There are many approaches also, from the simple Box-Dimension to the most complex Hausdorff Dimension. The...

In this paper we present some new properties of the metric dimension defined by Bouligand in 1928 and prove the following new projection theorem: Let dimb(A − A) denote the Bouligand dimension of the set A − A of differences between elements of A. Given any compact set A ⊆ R such that dimb(A−A) < m, then almost every orthogonal projection P of A of rank m is injective on A and P |A has Lipschit...