nowadays, credit risk is recognized as one of the most important bankruptcy factors of banks and financial institutions. in order to manage and control this risk, design of credit rating models is undeniable necessity. credit rating is used to identify the probability of credit default and on the other side classify the customers into two groups: good and bad accounts. until now, various statis...

The StarTech massively parallel chess program, running on a 512-processor Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputer, tied for third place at the 1993 ACM International Computer Chess Championship. StarTech employs the Jamboree search algorithm, a natural extension of J. Pearl’s Scout search algorithm, to find parallelism in game-tree searches. StarTech’s work-stealing scheduler distributes the work...

 Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (CI) on speech intelligibility. Methods: Aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for CI. All children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. They were followed up until 5...

Recently, many meta-heuristic algorithms are proposed for optimization of various problems. Some of them originally are presented for continuous optimization problems and some others are just applicable for discrete ones. In the literature, sizing optimization of truss structures is one of the discrete optimization problems which is solved by many meta-heuristic algorithms. In this paper, in or...

the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of pressure andattentional instruction on table tennis players' performance. for this purpose, 16table tennis players were tested in 4 conditions with different attentionalinstructions and pressure conditions. the test included a table tennis task: the ballcolor signified the target where the ball had to be hit and the player had to p...

Cybersecurity risk is among the top risks that every organization must consider and manage, especially during this time wherein technology has become an integral part of our lives; however, there no efficient simplified measurement method organizations or regulators could use, as frequently they need, to evaluate compare outcome cybersecurity efforts have been put in place. Consequently, result...