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The suggestion that the capacity of audio-visual integration has an upper limit of 1 was challenged in four experiments using perceptual factors and training to enhance the binding of auditory and visual information. Participants were required to note a number of specific visual dot locations that changed in polarity when a critical auditory stimulus was presented, under relatively fast (200 ms...

scorpion bite is a common health problem in many parts of the world, including the iran’s tropics. there are thousands of cases and a number of deaths due to scorpion bite every year in the country. the present study aims to provide further data regarding the details, complications and outcomes of scorpion bite cases referring to razi hospital, ahwaz, from march 2011 to april 2012. a total of 2...

this article outlines the government facilitator roles in ecopreneurship functions inenvironmental ngos. target group was environmental ngos in iran (key actors, committed to preservingecological and environmental integrity). accelerating innovation way for improving the environmentalconservation by environmental ngos is the conceptual mean of ecopreneurship in this research. questionnaireas a ...

In this paper, we address the problem of classi®cation of continuous general audio data (GAD) for content-based retrieval, and describe a scheme that is able to classify audio segments into seven categories consisting of silence, single speaker speech, music, environmental noise, multiple speakers' speech, simultaneous speech and music, and speech and noise. We studied a total of 143 classi®cat...

In this paper, we present an automatic extraction of goal events in soccer videos by using audio track features alone without relying on expensive-to-compute video track features. The extracted goal events can be used for high-level indexing and selective browsing of soccer videos. The detection of soccer video highlights using audio contents comprises three steps: 1) extraction of audio featur...

Background Reliable population-based data on sexually transmitted infections (STI) are limited in Iran and selfreporting remains the main source of indirect estimation of STI-associated symptoms in the country. However, where and how the questions are asked could influence the rate of self-reporting. In the present study, we aimed to assess what questionnaire delivery method (ie, face-to-face i...