background: the whoqol-bref is one of the best-known instruments that have been developed for cross-cultural compari­sons of quality of life and currently it is available in more than 40 languages. current study was done to provide: (1) the psychometrics properties of the iranian version of whoqol-bref and (2) the norm scores for satisfaction with life over­all and satisfaction with specific li...

The information has always been a valuable patrimony for the information systems that every company tries to capitalize as much as possible. With the web, the amount of information is increased and several problems arise for instance for the safety of the exchanged data but also to the semantic heterogeneity: the same information is very often represented in different ways in different informat...

Modified three-taxon analysis (m3ta), a method in which three-taxon statements are produced from a nonadditive binary coding of the original data, has been proposed as a model-free way of assessing monophyly of groups, utilizing the taxic concept of homology. In fact the taxic concept amounts to a model, and, further, one that seems to conflict directly with evolution. M3ta is a type of groupin...

Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) by Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH, TE Connectivity, and Software AG The increase in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is one of the most important applications of Industrie 4.0. However, retrofitting existing production systems poses major challenges for plant operators. For this reason, Pepperl+Fuchs, TE Connectivity, and Software AG – companies that are technologica...

ONSM is a rare tumour. It is usually separated into the primary ONSM (pONSM) (intraorbital or intracanalicular) and secondary (sONSM) (intra­ cranial). The tumour can also originate within the optic nerve sheath in the orbit or optic canal and may grow intracranially to involve various struc­ tures there. ONSM can also present in a bilateral form. pONSM represent approximately 96% of all intrao...

Forward Error Correction (FEC) is very efficient for off-line streaming with large buffering time, but real-time streaming puts hard restrictions on the buffer size making FEC inefficient for combating long link failures on single path routes. Multi-path routing, orthogonal to buffering, can however make FEC effective also for real-time streaming. For this purpose we introduce a capillary routi...

Initiation of Intercourse: Overall Influences At the follow-up interview, 28% of young men reported having initiated intercourse within a year of the first survey. In general, involvement in risky behaviors and precoital sexual activity increased the likelihood of first sex (odds ratios, 1.4 and 1.3, respectively—Table 3). The more approving that young men were of premarital sex, the more likel...