BACKGROUND Oxford shoulder score is a specific 12-item patient-reported tool for evaluation of patients with inflammatory and degenerative disorders of the shoulder. Since its introduction, it has been translated and culturally adapted in some Western and Eastern countries. The aim of this study was to translate the Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) in Persian and to test its validity and reliability...

In a previous production experiment, post-focus compression (PFC) of F0 and intensity were found to be present in Persian. It was also shown that F0 and duration were the main correlates of prosodic focus in Persian. However, the perceptual relevance of PFC in Persian was not yet clear. The present paper reports the findings of an experiment on focus perception in Persian. Native speakers of Pe...

Access to weblogs, both through commercial services and in academic studies, is usually limited to the content of the weblog posts. This overlooks an important aspect distinguishing weblogs from other web pages: the ability of weblog readers to respond to posts directly, by posting comments. In this paper we present a large-scale study of weblog comments and their relation to the posts. Using a...

Weblogs have been proposed as a highly effective means for organizations to communicate with customers, suppliers, and employees. This paper provides a conceptual model of the relationships among weblog use, intellectual capital--the cumulative knowledge resources possessed by organizations-and both radical and incremental innovative capabilities. We argue that in enabling the transfer of knowl...

This paper will present how weblogs, or web-based, chronologically-ordered, content management system, can be used as part of computer science classes. The experience consisted in having the class professor use a weblog for class-related topics, as well as anything mentioned in class that needed the complement of a hyperlink, and giving students the possibility of having their own weblogs, whic...

A weblog—blog, for short—is a Web site that uses a dated log format to publish periodical information. The updates are frequent, usually daily, according to the site owner's editorial purposes—or whims. Blogs contribute to Web content by linking and filtering evolving content in a structured way and by establishing interlinked com-munities—the blogosphere—connect-ing people through shared inter...

Weblogs are a source of human activity knowledge comprising valuable information such as facts, opinions and personal experiences. In this paper, we propose a method for mining personal experiences from a large set of weblogs. We define experience as knowledge embedded in a collection of activities or events which an individual or group has actually undergone. Based on an observation that exper...

Credibility is a perceived quality and is evaluated with at least two major components: trustworthiness and expertise. Weblogs (or blogs) are a potentially fruitful genre for exploration of credibility assessment due to public disclosure of information that might reveal trustworthiness and expertise by webloggers (or bloggers) and availability of audience evaluations. The objectives of the plan...

In this paper we investigate how conceptualisations can be identified in weblogs using language technology (automated text analysis). We focus on getting a handle on both the concepts bloggers use and the way they think these concepts are related. The analysis of these conceptualisations can then be applied to a single weblog, resulting in a visualisation of potential conceptualisations the blo...

Comprehensive explanation about milk oversupply is not available in the current literature because few studies have been done on this topic. In traditional Persian medicine, milk oversupply and its management have been described. The aim of this study was to investigate milk oversupply from the perspective of medieval Persian practitioners. In this study, some main medical resources of traditio...