Considerable attention has recently been devoted to the linear trend of drought at the decadal to inter-decadal time scale; however, the nonlinear variation of drought at multi-decadal scales and its relation to atmospheric circulation need to be further studied. The linear and nonlinear variations of the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) in Shandong from 1900 to 2012 and its relations to th...

the aim of this study was surveying the mediating effect of parent-adolescent conflict between inter-parenting conflict and risk behaviors. the study is description and the type is structural equation modeling; the population of the study is students of qods town which is located in tehran province. sample size is 610 students that were selected by multistage random sampling. the data were gath...

conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...

OBJECTIVE Digital ulcers (DUs) are often a primary end point in systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) clinical trials, although the reliability of rheumatologists grading DUs is poor to moderate at best. DU assessment in recent trials has been based upon visual inspection alone, which potentially misses "real-world" clinical contextual information. Our aim was to investigate whether this clinic...

An inter-rater agreement study is performed for readability assessment in Bengali. A 1-7 rating scale was used to indicate different levels of readability. We obtained moderate to fair agreement among seven independent annotators on 30 text passages written by four eminent Bengali authors. As a by product of our study, we obtained a readability-annotated ground truth dataset in Bengali.

ÐThis paper presents a modular algorithm which is suitable for computing a large class of multidimensional transforms in a general purpose parallel environment without interprocessor communication. Since it is based on matrix-vector multiplication, it does not impose restrictions on the size of the input data as many existing algorithms do. The method is fully general since it does not depend o...