aim and background: efficacy of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and traditional cognitive behavior therapy in reduction of over generality in autobiographical memory test of patients with major depressive disorder in 2007 is considered in this study. method and materials: this clinical-experimental study was carried out on 90 patients randomly selected from 160 cases refering to tehran univ...

the estimate of entropy (sample entropy), has been introduced by vasicek (1976), for the first time. in this paper, we provide an estimate of entropy of order statistics, that is the extention of the entropy estimate. then we present an application of the entropy estimate of order statistics as a test statistic for symmetry of distribution versus skewness. the proposed test has been compared wi...

This paper describes the first participation of the SINAI group of the University of Jaén in TRECVID 2007. We have only participated in the automatic search task. Our approach is a very simple system made up of three main modules: the text-based retrieval subsystem, the image-based retrieval subsystem and the fusion module. We have submitted several runs exploring fusion of both textual and vis...

OBJECTIVE To investigate medical students' perception of problem based learning (PBL), to compare the acceptance level of new students who were introduced to PBL theoretically with those who had 2 years experience, and to study the effect of PBL on the academic performance. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on medical students at King Abdul-Aziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi ...

Due to an increasing interest in SDL, MSC and TTCN based tools for validation and test generation, Telelogic AB, Malmm o, and the Institute for Telematics of the University of L ubeck are cooperating in a research and development project aiming at bringing new test generation facilities to the Tau tool set. For that purpose, a software component has been developed which supports the automatic g...