Methods Twenty-seven teenagers with asthma detected through the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire answered the ISAAC rhinitis module and underwent spirometry, FeNO measurement and evaluation of QOL through Peadiatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ). Student t test and Kolmogorov – Smirnov test were applied for means comparison; associati...

In this paper we report on a study on feature selection within the minimum–redundancy maximum–relevance framework. Features are ranked by their correlations to the target vector. These relevance scores are then integrated with correlations between features in order to obtain a set of relevant and least–redundant features. Applied measures of correlation or distributional similarity for redunanc...

Few would dispute the claim that Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) is Britain’s premier psychologist and indeed one of the enduring figures in the history of behavioral science. Some twenty years ago, I asked a number of psychologists to list the names of whomever they considered to be the five or six most important persons in the history of psychological testing. Among all the nominations, o...

the present study aims at studying the relationship between social capital and organizational performance. this is an applied research and in terms of data collection method, it is an descriptive survey. statistical population are official employees with diploma and upper certificate and faculty members of zangan university. sapmles were 115. data collection tool is questionnaire. to analyze da...