BACKGROUND Semi-structural clinical interviews are very important in the area of mental health research and services. There were no studies of the reliability and validity of the Farsi (Persian) version of Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) in Iran. This study compares the results of face-to-face, semi-structural interview and clin...

Chickpea, chick pea, Egyptian bean, gram pea, Bengal gram [English]; garbanzo [Spanish]; pois chiche [French]; grão-de-bico, ervilha-de-bengala [Portuguese]; kikkererwt [Dutch]; Kichererbse [German]; kacang arab [Indonesian]; cece [Italian]; nohut [Turkish]; Đậu gà [Vietnamese]; [Amharic]; صمّـحِلا [Arabic]; [Bengali]; 鹰嘴豆 [Chinese]; دوخن [Farsi]; Ρεβιθιά [Greek]; [Gujarati]; הצמח [Hebrew]; [Hind...

Graphology is the science of study and analysis of the personality of an individual from his/her style of handwriting. In western communities, the most important application of graphology is the recruitment of job applicants. In this regard, computer aided extraction and analysis of features from handwriting can be of great assistance to graphologists. The most predominant features of handwriti...

A new method for feature extraction based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) implementation is proposed in this paper. The specific application is offline Farsi handwritten digit recognition. The classification is based on a simple two layer MLP (Multi Layer Perceptron). This method of feature extraction is appropriate for FPGA implementation as it can be implemented only with addition an...

Having Farsi as the underlying language and using a test collection of 166,774 documents and 100 topics, this experiment evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of different IR models while using a light and a plural stemmer as well as n-grams and trunc-n indexing strategies. Moreover the impact of stoplist removal is evaluated. According to the obtained results the DFR-I(ne)C2 model is the best ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to estimate the pooled prevalence of different types of child abuse in Iran. METHOD We systematically searched four English databases (PubMed, Sciencedirect, PsychINFO and Scopus), and three Farsi databases (Magiran, IranMedex and SID) to find out relevant articles that have reported the prevalence of child abuse in Iran. Studies conducted on special...

BACKGROUND Restoring sleep is associated with a broad variety of favorable cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral benefits during the day. This holds particularly true for adolescents, as maturational, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes might unfavorably impact on adolescents' sleep. Among adolescents, poor sleep hygiene practices are a potentially modifiable risk factor t...