introduction: breastfeeding is an important principle in pediatric health. it decreases their mortality and protect them fromm diseases in the first 6-month of life. this study aimed to determined maternal knowledge and practice in mashhad city about breast-feeding in first 6 -month of infant's life.   materials and methods: this analytic study was conducted on 105 mothers who had a child ...

This study investigated the relative effects of deductive and inductive form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisition of 4 non-generic definite article uses(cultural, situational, structural, and textual) as assessed by explicit and implicit outcome measures. The tests utilized to assess EFL learners' acquisition of definite article uses were timed and untimed grammaticality judgment tests....

BACKGROUND Decision support in health systems is a highly difficult task, due to the inherent complexity of the process and structures involved. METHOD This paper introduces a new hybrid methodology Expert-based Cooperative Analysis (EbCA), which incorporates explicit prior expert knowledge in data analysis methods, and elicits implicit or tacit expert knowledge (IK) to improve decision suppo...

Guest editoral Preface i This special issue of the IJVCSN is devoted to computational technologies boosting the creation of Internet-based social networks and communities. In recent years we experienced the rapid development in the area of advanced groupware and social software frameworks. It became obvious that the impact the dynamic changes in virtual communities have on performance, service ...

We present an algorithm for automatic word sense disambiguation ba.sed on lexical knowl edge contained in WordNet and on the results of surface-syntactic analvsis The algorithm lb part of a system that analyzes texts in or der to acquire knowledge in the presence of as little pre-coded semantic knowledge as possi blc On the other hand, we want lo make Hit besl us* of public-domain information s...

The GE NLTooLsET aims at extracting and deriving useful information from text using a knowledge-based , domain-independent core of text processing tools, and customizing the existing programs to each new task . The program achieves this transportability by using a core knowledge base and lexicon that adapts easil y to new applications, along with a flexible text processing strategy that is tole...