MIDAS is an application framework developed at College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science for interactive remote data acquisition and visualization. The objective is to provide dynamic reconfiguration of the sensing process. The current MIDAS application framework utilizes the code mobility and portability of Java 2 platform. The Jini technology for networking devices increases the system evolv...

This study aimed to translate MIDAS questionnaire from English into Persian and determine its content validity and reliability. MIDAS was translated and validated on a sample (N = 110) of Iranian adult population. The participants were both male and female with the age range of 17-57. They were at different educational levels and from different ethnic groups in Iran. A translating team, consist...

In addition to being a religious book with high human and moral themes, Nahj al-Balagha is considered mirror of Arab culture literary masterpiece at the height eloquence eloquence, because proverbs in form short, concrete understandable phrases for everyone, experiences, thoughts convey ideas, Imam Ali (AS) used it facilitate understanding various political, social concepts. this article, we in...

Robust gender effect has been reported in Multiple Intelligences (MI)-EFL studies across cultures. Nevertheless, research results vary in effect size, Intelligence type, overall estimation etc. The variance is mainly explained in terms of socio-cultural factors. However, although manifold MI inventories and scales are used in studies, the role of the MI-test type in creating variance has not be...

BACKGROUND Recently, novel 3D alignment-free molecular descriptors (also known as QuBiLS-MIDAS) based on two-linear, three-linear and four-linear algebraic forms have been introduced. These descriptors codify chemical information for relations between two, three and four atoms by using several (dis-)similarity metrics and multi-metrics. Several studies aimed at assessing the quality of these no...

Background Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS) is an observational, dementia-specific, visual analogue scale, developed to measure musical experiences of patients with dementia (PwD). Derived from qualitative data focus groups and interviews PwD, carers, care home staff, music therapists, it revealed acceptable good psychometric properties a preliminary study. We aim describe the transl...