the growing population and increasing socio-economic necessities creates a pressure on land use/land cover. nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. this study investigates the land use changes in part of hableh rood watershed of iran using landsat 7 and 8 (sensor etm+ and oli) ...

classifying age classes in a large area using remotely sensed data has considerable significance for forest sustainable management. in this research, landsat etm+ data from loveh forest, dating july 2002, were analyzed to investigate the potential of this sensor for age class mapping. we applied a systematic cluster sampling method to collect field data. we used 99 plots so that contained 32 pl...

OBJECTIVE A nationwide anti-tuberculosis drug resistance survey for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was conducted by the Tuberculosis Research Committee (Ryoken) in Japan, 2002, to clarify the recent trend of drug resistant M. tuberculosis. The drug susceptibility testing (DST) results by participating laboratories were compared with the test results by the reference laboratory, in order to evaluate...

BACKGROUND Of all patients with low back pain, 85% are diagnosed as "non-specific lumbar pain". Lumbar instability has been described as one specific diagnosis which several authors have described as delayed muscular responses, impaired postural control as well as impaired muscular coordination among these patients. This has mostly been measured and evaluated in a laboratory setting. There are ...

BACKGROUND Rater agreement is important in clinical research, and Cohen's Kappa is a widely used method for assessing inter-rater reliability; however, there are well documented statistical problems associated with the measure. In order to assess its utility, we evaluated it against Gwet's AC1 and compared the results. METHODS This study was carried out across 67 patients (56% males) aged 18 ...

This paper considers the attenuated Westervelt equation in pressure formulation. The attenuation is by various models proposed literature and characterised inclusion of non-local operators that give power law damping as opposed to exponential classical models. goal inverse problem recovering a spatially dependent coefficient equation, parameter nonlinearity <inline-formula content-type="math/ma...

introduction: traumatic eye injuries (tei) involved about 3% of cases referred to the emergency departments of developing countries. lens dislocation is one of the critical cases of ophthalmic emergencies. the present study was aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detection of traumatic lens dislocation. methods: in this cross-sectional study the findings of ultrasono...

the growing population and increasing socio-economic necessitiescreates a pressure on land use/land cover. nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. this study investigates the land use changes in part of hableh rood watershed of iran using landsat 7 and 8 (sensor etm+ and oli) i...

recognition equal units and segregation them and upshot planning per units most basic method for management forest units. aim this study presentation and comparison classification and regression tree (cart) and random forest (rf) algorithm for forest type mapping using aster satellite data in district one didactic and research forest&apos;s darabkola. in start using inventory network 500* 350 m...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the content analysis of recent persian songs (2013-2014) according to emotions of anxiety, depression, anger, fear and happiness. the research method was content analysis type. the sample consisted of 50 persian songs from 2013 to 2014 which they were selected by simple sampling. to analysis of data, massages were categorized in emotions of anxiety, ...