A IDAN KEANE 1 ∗, JU L I A P . G . J O N E S 2 AND E . J . MIL NE R -GUL L AND 1 1Department of Life Sciences and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK, and 2School of the Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK Date submitted: 21 October 2011; Date accepted: 23 February 2012; First published...

Background: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a real problem that affects 25-63% of women. There is no valid Persian version of sexual function questionnaire (FSQ). Objectives: The aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of Persian version of sexual function questionnaire. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 547 women were questioned by Persian version of S...

BACKGROUND Finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. The Homophone Meaning Generation Test (HMGT) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Persian ver...

This paper describes creation of a test collection for Persian Part of Speech Tagging experiments. This collection was created by modifying a manually Part of Speech (POS) tagged Persian corpus with over two million tagged words. The original collection had a tag set of 550 tags that are more than what any machine learning algorithm can handle. The number of tags for these experiments was reduc...

This paper describes a method based on morphological analysis of words for a Persian Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging system. This is a main part of a process for expanding a large Persian corpus called Peyekare (or Textual Corpus of Persian Language). Peykare is arranged into two parts: annotated and unannotated parts. We use the annotated part in order to create an automatic morphological analyze...

may be because cases of gul dependence are usually not brought for consultation to the psychiatrists. It has been our experience that there is usually an increase in the symptomatic abuse of this product in psychotic disorders and episodes of depressive illness. This report is an effort to bring to the notice of researchers in the field of psychiatry and related fields, the endemic abuse of thi...

We model agents who use self-deception to rationalize and justify actions that can eventually lead them into temptation. Formally, we extend Gul and Pesendorfer’s (2001) framework to three time periods and obtain a special functional form for the temptation utility at the interim stage. Our representation portrays an agent who is tempted (i) to relax her normative attitude towards future indulg...

Julie Thomas, Saiprasad G. Palusa, Kasavajhala V.S.K. Prasad, Gul Shad Ali, Giridara-Kumar Surabhi, Asa Ben-Hur, Salah E. Abdel-Ghany and Anireddy S.N. Reddy* Department of Biology, Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA, and Department of Computer Science and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado ...

aCNRS ICUBE, University of Strasbourg, UMR 7357, Boulevard Sebastien Brant, F-67412 Illkirch Cedex, France. bLinear Technology, Dust Networks product group, 32990 Alvarado-Niles Road, Suite 910, Union City, CA 94587, USA. cDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico, 1, 00133 Roma, Italy dDepartment of Computer Programming, Trakya Univ...

The 2009 Ad Hoc track was to a large extent a repetition of last year’s track, with the same three tasks: Tel@CLEF, Persian@CLEF, and Robust-WSD. In this first of the two track overviews, we describe the objectives and results of the TEL and Persian tasks and provide some statistical analyses.