customer orientation is one of the new approaches which is recently considered by the iranian healthcare centers. the present study aims to identify the main factors of customer orientation in iranian hospitals. the study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after recognition of the main variables. iranian social security organization hospitals (the major governmental health ins...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis of the knee is commonly diagnosed and monitored with radiography. However, the reliability of radiographic classification systems for osteoarthritis and the correlation of these classifications with the actual degree of confirmed degeneration of the articular cartilage of the tibiofemoral joint have not been adequately studied. METHODS As the Multicenter ACL (anterio...

introduction: critical thinking disposition indicates individual’s inclination to critical thinking, which is one of the domains of personality. individual characteristics are important and influential factors in the growth and development of students’ critical thinking. one of these influential characteristics might be self-esteem, thus this study was to determine the correlation between criti...

the current study examined interrelation of affectivity, emotional intelligence and personality and their roles in sport coaches’ transformational leadership style using their disposition. data are collected from 206 sport coaches. pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze data. the results showed a positive deep relationship between positive affectivity with personality (r=0.251, p

This paper presents our metric (UoWLSTM) submitted in the WMT-15 metrics task. Many state-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) evaluation metrics are complex, involve extensive external resources (e.g. for paraphrasing) and require tuning to achieve the best results. We use a metric based on dense vector spaces and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks, which are types of Recurrent Neural Netwo...

This paper is a continuation of our previous work on Pearson’s coefficient r and we discuss here the concept of the Spearman correlation coefficient and the Kendall correlation coefficient between Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A-IFSs, for short) to measure the degree of association between the A-IFSs when the assumption that the data distributions are normal is not valid or when data a...

Background: For decades, it was suspected that diabetes contributed to poorer oral health and the increased frequency of periodontitis. More recently it was found that periodontitis could adversely affect glycemic control in diabetics. The aim of this study was to compare periodontal parameters with the metabolic sugar levels of diabetic and non-diabetic individuals. Materials and Methods: I...