conclusions cognitive behavior therapy was more effective than the other psychotherapy approaches relieving chronic pain in the studies. well-designed studies and comprehensive clarification of the studies demonstrating groups, intervention, follow-up and drop outs can improve the quality of the rcts. context keeping in mind the burden of psychotherapy can play a crucial role concerning chronic...

While many high-quality tools are available for analyzing major languages such as English, equivalent freely-available tools for important but lower-resourced languages such as Farsi are more difficult to acquire and integrate into a useful NLP front end. We report here on an accurate and efficient Farsi analysis front end that we have assembled, which may be useful to others who wish to work w...

The aim of this study was to describe the psychometric properties of the Farsi Form of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA). The original scale was first translated into Farsi by language experts using the back translation procedure and then administered to a total of 252 Iranian college students and 52 psychiatric outpatients from psychiatric and psychological clinics. The one-week test-re...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.02.088 * Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +98 (21)82883990 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G mcmaster.ca (H.Q. Saremi), [email protected] (V. Character recognition of Farsi and Arabic texts as an open and demanding problem needs to encounter sophisticated specifications of the characters such as their shapes,...

Pitch is often described metaphorically: for example, Farsi and Turkish speakers use a 'thickness' metaphor (low sounds are 'thick' and high sounds are 'thin'), while German and English speakers use a height metaphor ('low', 'high'). This study examines how child and adult speakers of Farsi, Turkish, and German map pitch and thickness using a cross-modal association task. All groups, except for...

objective: mental disorders are more common among the chemically injured veterans rather the than the normal population. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mustard gas (mg) on mental health and quality-of-life (qol) in the people exposed to it based on reviewing valid published articles. methods: we searched english databases including medline, isi and scopus as well as f...

In this paper a new algorithm for stemming in Farsi language is presented. This stemmer is based on removing the suffixes and prefixes but a database is used to save the exceptions to decrease error rate. In the proposed method the speed of stemmer and also the percentage of errors are improved. The evaluation results on a small Farsi document collection show significant improvement in precisio...