BACKGROUND Considering the difficulties in diagnosing bipolar disorder in clinical practice and lack of needed screening instruments in Persian language, the present study aimed at assessing sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values for the Persian Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale. METHODS The study was conducted in a university-affiliated hospital in Tehran, Iran, in a sample of 181 c...

Optimisation of PM scheduling for multi-component systems – a simulated annealing approach Mohammad Doostparast a , Farhad Kolahan b & Mahdi Doostparast c a Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company (IOPTC) , Tehran , Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad , Iran c Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences , Ferdowsi Unive...

The rapid changes in oil prices in last five years forced companies to rethink about their manufacturing process. This paper examines application of DEA and revenue management models for measuring and improving of productivity of a Canadian packaging company. The critical success failure factors are also highlighted.

1 Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Franje Kuhača 20, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia 2 MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, H-2443 Százhalombatta, P.O. Box 1, Hungary 3 Croatian Veterinary Institute Zagreb, Veterinary Department Vinkovci, Josipa Kozarca 24, HR-32100 Vinkovci, Croatia 4 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Chemical...

The present research is a descriptive corpus-based translation study aiming at pinpointing the patterns of translation into Persian when dealing with English Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE). After scrutiny of the strategies applied by Persian translators some regular patterns were drawn, with the exception that the observed translation behavior may be taken as advantageous information for improving ...

permeability prediction problem has been examined using several methods such as empirical formulas, regression analysis and intelligent systems especially neural networks and fuzzy logic. this study proposes an improved and novel model for predicting permeability from conventional well log data. the methodology is integration of empirical formulas, multiple regression and neuro-fuzzy in a commi...

Preliminary Draft Comments Welcome Oil has been an important energy source in the U.S. for over 100 years. Increased reliance on foreign supplies has resulted in potential vulnerability, while high U.S. production costs, coupled with a dynamic market price, have resulted in a volatile domestic industry. The Federal government has responded with many initiatives. Military expenditures in the Per...

M ore than 2 years after the Gulf conflict, scientists are continuing to keep a close watch on marine pollution stemming from the war. Following the conflict in early 1991, major concern was raised worldwide when an estimated four to eight million barrels of crude oil were directly released into the Persian Gulf from the Sea Island terminal in Kuwait. Such amounts clearly made it the largest oi...

Nowadays, many daily human activities such as education, trade, talks, etc are done by using the Internet. In such things as registration on Internet web sites, hackers write programs to make automatic false registration that waste the resources of the web sites while it may also stop it from functioning. Therefore, human users should be distinguished from computer programs. To this end, this p...