BACKGROUND Oral and dental health diseases can affect the general health of students. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of oral and dental health behavior using the health belief model (HBM) in female students in Teheran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study framed by the HBM, including 400 female students living in district 5 of Tehran, ...

ion, and table construction, as discussed below. The process of report generation and chapter preparation was an iterative one: research, initial manuscript drafts, group discussions, electronic communicationbetweeneditors and authors, revision and re-revision, and final editing. The three working group meetings (February 2001, December 2001, and December 2002) provided important opportunities ...

Total preorders (tpos) are often used in belief revision to encode an agent’s strategy for revising its belief set in response to new information. Thus the problem of tpo-revision is of critical importance to the problem of iterated belief revision. Booth et al. [1] provide a useful framework for revising tpos by adding extra structure to guide the revision of the initial tpo, but this results ...

this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

We generalize AGM belief revision theory to the multi-agent case. To do so, we first generalize the semantics of the single-agent case, based on the notion of interpretation, to the multi-agent case. Then we show that, thanks to the shape of our new semantics, all the results of the AGM framework transfer. Afterwards we investigate some postulates that are specific to our multi-agent setting. F...

This paper presents both a semantic and a computational model for multi-agent belief revision. We show that these two models are equivalent but serve different purposes. The semantic model displays the intuition and construction of the belief revision operation in multi-agent environments, especially in case of just two agents. The logical properties of this model provide strong justifications ...

Forensic science advocates the use of inference mechanisms which may be viewed as simple multi-agent protocols. An important protocol of this kind involves an agent FE (forensic expert) who communicates to a second agent TOF (trier of fact) first its value of a certain likelihood ratio with respect to its own belief state which is supposed to be captured by a probability function on FE’s propos...

in this work we develop a new optimal without memory class for approximating a simple root of a nonlinear equation. this class includes three parameters. therefore, we try to derive some with memory methods so that the convergence order increases as high as possible. some numerical examples are also ‎presented.‎‎