background: in its constitution of 1948, who defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” . in 1994, the agency for health care policy and research published clinical practice guidelines recommending providers to routinely evaluate patients’ hrqol (health related quality of life) and use their assessment to ...

The aim of this study was to assess the environmental impact of socio-cultural practices on the water quality of River Ganga at the foothills of the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand State, India. The physico-chemical parameters that contributed to the temporal variation and pollution in the river were identified in this study. Principal component analysis (PCA) and Cluster analysis (CA) were us...

We present a method for analyzing and resynthesizing inhomogeneously textured regions in images for the purpose of advanced compression. We first define image blocks in a way that they cover regions with homogenious texture. These blocks are transformed each in turn. For the transform we use the so called Principle Component Analysis. After the transform into the new domain we statistically ana...

iris recognition is one of the most reliable methods for identification. in general, itconsists of image acquisition, iris segmentation, feature extraction and matching. among them, iris segmentation has an important role on the performance of any iris recognition system. eyes nonlinear movement, occlusion, and specular reflection are main challenges for any iris segmentation method. in this pa...

inter- and intra-population variations of a recently described endemic cyprinid fish alburnoides qanati coad and bogutskaya, 2009 collected from three localities in the kor river basin, iran, were studied by applying morphometric and meristic characters using canonical discriminate function analysis (dfa), principal component analysis (pca) and cluster analysis (ca). in dfa, the overall random ...

need for cognition scale (ncs) is an instrument for assessing individual’s interest to engage in complex thinking activities and consists both long and short forms. the short form of this scale with 18 items has been used in various researches around the world. the objective of this research was to obtain the factor structure of the persian version of ncs (short form) and study of gender differ...

In this paper, a review on the latest methodologies and application of the Principle Component Analysis (PCA) has been done in the area of image processing. Exploring basic theory of multivariate analysis, which involves a mathematical procedure to transform a number of correlated variables into a number of uncorrelated variables have been studied, compared and analyzed for better performance. ...