assistive technologies have always opened new horizons in human’s life, posed solutions to problems and brought relief and prosperity for human beings. iranian judicial authorities have recently recognized the importance of medical technologies. accordingly, iranian legal system has recognized surrogacy and a surrogacy contract seems unavoidable for surrogacy to be legally valid, socially accep...

This paper proposes the procedure to find out the total average cost in terms of crisp values for /M/1/BD/MV with fuzzy parameters. In which arrival rate, service rate, batch size, setup, vacation, breakdown, repair rates, and the start up ,build up, holding, setup, dormant, breakdown costs and cost for busy and vacation periods are all considered as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. As ranking techni...

This paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the ranking method of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Business Excellence Model in Iran’s Automotive Industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. Following the global trend, the Iranian industry leaders have introduced the EFQM practice to thei...

Temperature measurement in microwave systems is essential for thermally driven processes, namely, catalytic reactions and ceramic sintering. Although, the application of direct thermometry methods, namely, thermocouples, have been commonly articulated in the available literature, however, contacted temperature measurement mechanisms have aroused concerns associated with the disruption of the el...

In this study, we describe our system at the Intellectual Property track of the 2009 CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF-IP). The CLEF-IP track addressed prior art search for patent applications. We used the Apache Lucene IR library to conduct experiments with the traditional TF-IDF-based ranking approach, indexing both the textual content of each patent and the IPC codes assigned to ...

Kirja-arvio: Kristo Vesikansa, Philip Tidwell & Laura Berger, New Standards – Timber Houses Ltd. 1940–1955 (Helsinki: Garret Publications, 2021).

ERSS 2008 attempted to rectify certain issues of ERSS 2007. The improvements to readability, however, do not reflect in significant score increases, and in fact the system fell in overall ranking. While we have not concluded our analysis, we present some preliminary observations here.

Web pages are highly dynamic and it’s difficult to retrieve the relevant web pages in top 10 search results. This is based on some ranking mechanism incorporated retrieval system. The Retrieval system is designed for ranking the relevant web pages for user query. Usually, the retrieval system considers many techniques for ranking such as link based, connectivity based and keyword based techniqu...

conclusions there was a statistically significance correlation between thyrads score and pathologic bethesda scoring system. decision making basis on the radiologic thyrads score can improve the radiological diagnosis precision in nodular goiter patients. results the mean age (± standard deviation) of patients was 44.5 (± 12.8 years). most of them were female 138 (83.6%). the frequency of final...