between the progression of the disease and SACE activity. Conversely, we recently observed three cases of rapidly progressive pneumoconiosis (CWP, 1 case; silicosis, 2 cases) characterized by very high SACE activity (>mean + 4 units of standard deviation), associated with an increased alveolar lymphocytosis. Evidence of elevated SACE levels in non pneumoconiotic coal miners lead us to suggest t...

Fuzzy Logic, Computing with words, and the Computational Theory of Preceptions build a stack of methodologies to help bridge the gap between systems and phenomena in reality and scientific theories. Bridging this gap has been a problem in all philosophical approaches, and the so-called structuralist view of theories in one that was established in the 20 century. In this paper we present a “fuzz...

In the domain of Computing with words (CW), fuzzy linguistic approaches are known to be relevant in many decision-making problems. Indeed, they allow us to model the human reasoning in replacing words, assessments, preferences, choices, wishes. . . by ad hoc variables, such as fuzzy sets or more sophisticated variables. This paper focuses on a particular model: Herrera & Mart́ınez’ 2-tuple lingu...

OBJECTIVE An investigation of the interplay between various types of adolescents' perceptions of weight status in predicting adolescents' nutrition behavior and their body mass was conducted. In particular, it was hypothesized that the relationship between parental and peers' perceptions of their own weight status (reported by adolescents) and objectively measured weight status of adolescents w...

Listening taking over half of the learners’ time and effort (Nunan, 1998), forms a basis for acquiring much of a language. There are factors affecting listening comprehension and its perception, such as the speech rate, phonological properties of the text, the quality of the recording, the learners’ anxiety, and listening comprehension strategies (Goh, 2000; Hamouda, 2013). At the Iran Language...

purpose – this study tries to examine how perceived instrumentality organizational (the extent to which employees feel that their display of ocb will help in contributing to organizational operations and achievement of organizational objectives) and perceived instrumentality individual ( the extent to which employees perceive that their display of ocb will help in achieving individual objective...

background and purpose   methods   results   conclusion:   key words   journal of medical education fall 2006; 10(1); 3-10 : q uality g ap , e ducational s ervices , s tudent , b andar a bbas negative quality gap means students’ expectations are more than their perceptions. so improvements are needed across all of the five dimensions. : the results demonstrated that in all of the five servqual ...