An often noted limitation of computational models of faces operating on 2D pixel intensity representations is that they cannot handle changes in orientation. We show that this limitation can be overcome by using multiple views of a given face instead of a single view to represent the face. Speciically, we show that a linear autoassociator trained to reconstruct multiple views of a set of faces ...

Background and Objectives: Euthanasia is one of the major challenges in philosophical, medical, ethical, legal, and religious circles that has fueled many debates. The aim of this study was to investigate prediction of students' attitudes toward euthanasia using their religious orientation, self-esteem, and death anxiety. Methods: The samples of this descriptive-correlational study were 247 st...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

spiritual identity is conceptualized as defining and identification of oneself based on spirituality and spiritual experiences. this study, in a framework of a causal model, investigated the mediating role of spiritual identity between family communication orientations and loneliness aspects. participants, four hundred undergraduate shiraz university students (268 girls and 132 boys) were parti...

This study intends to propose a modern model in the field of human resources (HR) strategic management through designing human resources&rsquo competence framework. Based on this strategic orientation of organization on human resources management system has been investigated considering the mediating role of competence approach in Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In order to implem...

this paper aims to recognize and evaluate the dimensions of market orientation with an emphasis on hr roles in iran banking industry. to achieve this purpose, this paper is structured in two phases. in the first phase, we tried to recognize the dimensions of market orientation with an emphasis on hr roles in banking industry by using comments of marketing and hrm experts and bank staffs. in the...

Background and Objectives: Test anxiety is one of the most common types of anxieties in the learning environment that can be correlated with the psychological well-being of university students. However, the religious orientation of the individuals may have effects on this relationship. Therefore, this study aimed to predict the correlation between test anxiety and psychological well-being, emph...

it has long been assumed that there is a positive relationship between religious orientation and mental health. recently, this has been supported by experimental evidence provided by psychologists of religion. in this paper, the aim of the writers is provide further support by studying the relationship between the degree of religious orientation of immigrants and their mental health, using alpo...