proverbs are short statements which have deep concepts and arise from the social forms and perceptions that provide social situation and orientation. this study seeks to examine the image of women and their issues among local proverbs of lamerd city in fars province. female related proverbs have been compiled and trough qualitative content analysis method analyzed. the results show that no soci...

background and objectives: mental health is one of the most important components of healthy life. culture, particularly religious orientation, is one of the factors whose role in promoting mental health is increasingly being emphasized. the aim of this study was to investigate correlation between religious orientation and mental health among the staff of pars special economic energy zone (pseez...

Contour integration plays an important role in linking local elements into global shape and the binding strength among local elements depends on both orientation and position features. The very high sensitivity reported for detecting the sinusoidal deformation of circular contours may result from the presence and concordance of both orientation and position cues to shape difference. In this stu...

Pattern clustering is an important data analysis process useful in a wide spectrum of computer vision applications. In addition to choosing the appropriate clustering methods, particular attention should be paid to the choice of the features describing patterns in order to improve the clustering performance. This paper presents a novel feature descriptor, referred as Histogram of Structure Tens...