this study aims to assess the validity and reliability of the persian version of simons and gaher's distress tolerance scale(dts) by administering it to nicotine dependent students of tehran university.in a descriptive cross-sectional study, 317 nicotine dependent students of tehran university who were selected, using available sampling method, completed dts, coping with stress- revised(cs-r), ...

NASA and other organizations involved with climate research have captured huge archives of earth observations. The sensors, spacecraft, and science algorithms for transforming and analyzing the data and the processing frameworks are evolving over time. Science Data Processing Systems (SDPSes) should capture, archive, and distribute provenance information of all externally received data and algo...

A strategy to examine the sensitivity of electrical device parameters on geometrical and technological tolerances is described. An approach is offered to determine the limit of device miniaturization for a given fabrication process and a desired operating condition. As a didactic example of practical relevance the minimum channel length for a modern silicon gate, double implant process due to t...

In this paper a novel solution to automatic and unsupervised word sense induction (WSI) is introduced. It represents an instantiation of the ‘one sense per collocation’ observation (Gale et al., 1992). Like most existing approaches it utilizes clustering of word co-occurrences. This approach differs from other approaches to WSI in that it enhances the effect of the one sense per collocation obs...

The Motorola Automated Test Environment (MATE) provides a means of automating the test process and integrating tools to support required testing capabilities across the lifecycle. The MATE architecture is provided as a foundation to discuss the issues of test tool integration with COTS products that automate the full system test lifecycle. Specific tool integration issues include data, control,...

We describe the development of high-T e Josephson junction devices for applications at millimeter wave frequencies. These devices consist of ramp type YBCO/PBCO/YBCO Josephson junctions that are equipped with a noble metal log-periodic antenna. Growth conditions of all layers, as well as etching, cleaning and annealing procedures are being optimized, to guarantee well-defined device properties....

Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to R. Der and T. Martinetz for useful discussions and to the reviewers for valuable comments. Abstract Neural maps combine the representation of data by codebook vectors, like a vector quantizer, with the property of topography, like a continuous function. While the quantization error is simple to compute and to compare between diierent maps, topography...

|Neural maps combine the representation of data by codebook vectors, like a vector quantizer, with the property of topography, like a continuous function. While the distortions due to the vector quantization are simple to compute and to compare between diierent maps, topography of a map is diicult to deene and to quantify. Yet, topography of a neural map is an advantageous property, e.g. in the...

Two data sets commonly used for geological resource assessment include bedrock geology and stream-sediment geochemistry. Traditional methods for determining relationships between these data include both qualitative and quantitative techniques. Qualitative interpretation and integration is generally based upon visual observations of spatial coincidence between the data. Quantitative results can ...