OBJECTIVE A dissertation is a scientific document. However, if it is not published in a scientific journal, it will gain access to only a limited audience and thus will be unable to achieve its objective. Nevertheless, the rate of publishing in journals is not high among dissertations. In this study, we aimed to investigate the publishing rates of general surgery dissertations in journals and t...

This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school. ASCI dissertation series number 281. iii The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.-Richard Hamming iv Acknowledgements When I started my PhD, I knew the road towards the finish would be a difficult and long one. The transformation process I passed through the last four years has been quite remarkable. I learned to be independent and...

in recent years, notable measures have been taken to protect the rights of participants in biomedical research in iran. the present study examines possible trends in adherence to ethical codes regarding informed consent after the development of the national code of ethics in biomedical research (ncebr) and establishment of research ethics committees. in this retrospective study, 126 dissertatio...

MATLAB is at present among the best available technique for image processing. Medical images after digitalized processed can help reducing the number of false positives and they assist medical officers in deciding between follow-up and biopsy. This paper gives a survey of image processing algorithms that have been developed for detection of masses and segmentation techniques. 35 students from u...

s of the dissertations and licentiate theses are published below. Tervo’s dissertation was already included in the list of dissertations for 2011 GAiF 40(2011)2 as that was the year of printing. The dissertations and licentiate theses are available on-line as pdf's and can be accessed by clicking on the name of the dissertation. Moreover, the introduction to Nuutinen’s dissertation, divided in ...