caesarean section (c-section) rates have been increasing dramatically in the past decades around the world. this increase has been attributed to multiple factors such as maternal, socio-demographic and institutional fac-tors. therefore, this study examines the impact of maternal, socio-demographic and relevant characteristics on caesar-ean delivery in the northern region of bangladesh.this stud...

the climate and weather patterns of buffalo (new york, u.s.a.) are strongly influenced by thecity’s proximity to lake erie. total monthly snowfall in buffalo is forecasted using neural network techniques(multi-layer perceptron = mlp) and a multiple linear regression (lr) model. the period of analysis comprises 28 years from january 1982 to december 2009. input data include: zonal wind speed (u-...

the main focus in this study is on data pre-processing, reduction in number of inputs or input space size reduction the purpose of which is the justified generalization of data set in smaller dimensions without losing the most significant data. in case the input space is large, the most important input variables can be identified from which insignificant variables are eliminated, or a variable ...

this study aims at evaluating the coursebooks taught at the intermediate level of adult and young adult departments of the iran language institute in terms of multiple intelligence types introduced by gardner (1983) to see to what extent such coursebooks represent the multiple intelligence theory. to fulfill the objectives, a checklist developed by botelho (2003) and localized by the researcher...