sensory perception and cultural values in the art of pardeh-xaniasghar izadi-jeiran assistant professor, department of anthropology, university of tehranabstract: my anthropological focus is on experience and perception of audience of pardeh-xani affected by sensory anthropology in which culture is defined as the ways of sensing the world. the art of pardeh-xani seeks to create special sensory ...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...

real-time population health assessment and monitoring D. L. Buckeridge M. Izadi A. Shaban-Nejad L. Mondor C. Jauvin L. Dubé Y. Jang R. Tamblyn The fragmented nature of population health information is a barrier to public health practice. Despite repeated demands by policymakers, administrators, and practitioners to develop information systems that provide a coherent view of population health st...

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This paper presents the results of a study on fault-tolerant control of a ship propulsion benchmark [Izadi-Zamanabadi, R., & Blanke, M. (1999). A ship propulsion system as a benchmark for fault tolerant control. Control Engineering Practice, 7 (2), 227–239] which uses estimated or virtual measurements as feedback variables. The estimator operates on a self-adjustable design model so that its ou...

Decentralized Receding Horizon Control of Cooperative Vehicles with Communication Delays Hojjat A. Izadi, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2009 This thesis investigates the decentralized receding horizon control (DRHC) for a network of cooperative vehicles where each vehicle in the group plans its future trajectory over a finite prediction horizon time. The vehicles exchange their predicted paths wi...

The potentially catastrophic impact of a bioterrorist attack makes developing effective detection methods essential for public health. In the case of anthrax attack, a delay of hours in making a right decision can lead to hundreds of lives lost. Current detection methods trade off reliability of alarms for early detection of outbreaks. The performance of these methods can be improved by modern ...

objective: the aim of this study was to compare the mental health of mothers of children with autism and those of control group. methods: sample of this study consists of 32 mothers of children with autistic disorder and 29 mothers of children without autism referring to hospitals of ahvaz city using convenience sampling. all subjects were asked to complete demographic questionnaire and general...