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A New Classification Model Based on Transfer Learning of DCNN and Stacknet for Fast Classification of Pneumonia Through X-Ray Images
Coronavirus has spread worldwide, with over 688 million confirmed cases and 6.8 million deaths. The results could be important as containment restrictions begin to be relaxed and we are not immune to new strains. They underscore...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A New Churn Prediction Model Based on Deep Insight Features Transformation for Convolution Neural Network Architecture and Stacknet
Predicting churn has become a critical issue for service providers around the world. In particular, telecom operators for whom acquiring new customers is four times more costly than retaining existing ones. To keep up with the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
"Fake it till You Make it"! Contaminating Rubber Hands ("Multisensory Stimulation Therapy") to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Baland Jalal, Richard J McNally, Jason A Elias, Sriramya Potluri, Vilayanur S Ramachandran
Jan 23, 2020
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a deeply enigmatic psychiatric condition associated with immense suffering worldwide. Efficacious therapies for OCD, like exposure and response prevention (ERP), are sometimes poorly...
Obligatory, Optional and Contrastive Occurrences of KE Modern Persian
Jalal Rahimian
Jul 18, 2013
The function of particles like ke in modern Persian varies according to context. As a morphosyntactic element with a range of roles, it functions as a subordinator, an adverbial conjunction, a focus marker and an interrogative...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Obligatory, Optional and Contrastive Occurrences of KE Modern Persian
Jalal Rahimian
Jul 18, 2013
The function of particles like ke in modern Persian varies according to context. As a morphosyntactic element with a range of roles, it functions as a subordinator, an adverbial conjunction, a focus marker and an interrogative...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
How to Make the Ghosts in my Bedroom Disappear? Focused-Attention Meditation Combined with Muscle Relaxation (MR Therapy)-A Direct Treatment Intervention for Sleep Paralysis.
Baland Jalal
Jan 13, 2016
A Texture Features-Based Robust Facial Expression Recognition
Facial expression plays an important role in communicating emotions. In this paper, a robust method for recognizing facial expressions is proposed using the combination of appearance features. Traditionally, appearance features...
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Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
In vitro sensitivity of human parainfluenza 3 clinical isolates to ribavirin, favipiravir and zanamivir.
Sleep paralysis in Italy
Previous research has found supernatural beliefs about sleep paralysis (SP) to be very prevalent in Italy, with over one third of SP sufferers believing that their SP might have been caused by a supernatural creature known...
Adenovirus pseudo-outbreak in a large UK neonatal intensive care unit.
An unusually high number of positive adenovirus stool antigen tests were observed in neonatal samples from a large tertiary referral unit over a 10-week period, prompting the declaration of an outbreak and escalation of...
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Intellectual Capital, and Green Innovation on Competitive Advantage
The concept of green intellectual capital has gained substantial popularity in context of pressures from competition, environmental forces, and mounting stakeholders’ expectations for environment protection. Scholars have...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A Visual Saliency-Based Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval
During the past two decades an enormous amount of visual information has been generated; as a result, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has received considerable attention. In CBIR the image is used as a query to find the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Prevalence and Clinical Picture of Sleep Paralysis in a Polish Student Sample.
Paulina Wróbel-Knybel, Hanna Karakuła-Juchnowicz, Michał Flis, Joanna Rog, Devon E Hinton, Piotr Boguta, Baland Jalal
May 19, 2020
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a psychobiological phenomenon caused by temporary desynchrony in the architecture of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It affects approximately 7.6% of the general population during their lifetime. The aim...
Beliefs about sleep paralysis in Turkey
The present study examined explanations of sleep paralysis (SP) in Turkey. The participants were 59 college students recruited in İstanbul, Turkey, who had experienced SP at least once in their lifetime. Participants were...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder-contamination fears, features, and treatment
This review aims to shed light on the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with a focus on contamination fears. In addition, we will briefly review the current therapies for OCD and detail what their limitations are....
An Exploration of the Effect of Customer Relationship Management on Organizational Performance in the Banking Sector
The main objective of this paper is to test the linkages among customer relationship management (CRM) practices and organizational performance in Palestinian banking sector. This research relies on an online survey which was...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Novel Smartphone Interventions Improve Cognitive Flexibility and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptoms in Individuals with Contamination Fears.
Baland Jalal, Annette Brühl, Claire O'Callaghan, Thomas Piercy, Rudolf N Cardinal, Vilayanur S Ramachandran, Barbara J Sahakian
Nov 02, 2018
One type of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by contamination fears and compulsive cleansing. Few effective treatments are available for this debilitating condition. Compulsive symptoms, such as excessive...
Risk factors of sleep paralysis in a population of Polish students.
Paulina Wróbel-Knybel, Michał Flis, Joanna Rog, Baland Jalal, Hanna Karakuła-Juchnowicz
Jun 07, 2022
BACKGROUND: Sleep paralysis (SP) is a transitional dissociative state associated with the REM sleep phase that affects approximately 28.3% of the student population during their lifetime. The reasons for the high prevalence of...
An Examination of Customer Relationship Management and Business Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises
The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of customer relationship management (CRM) dimensions on business sustainability in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A quantitative research approach was employed for data...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Are Moroccan Free School Support Websites Effective for Learners During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
In these times of Covid-19 pandemic, many Moroccan students access websites for their school support needs. The objective of this study is to carry out an evaluation of some Moroccan free school support websites and to verify...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Sleep Paralysis among Professional Firefighters and a Possible Association with PTSD—Online Survey-Based Study
Paulina Wróbel-Knybel, Joanna Rog, Baland Jalal, Paweł Szewczyk, Hanna Karakuła-Juchnowicz
Sep 09, 2021
The prevalence of sleep paralysis (SP) is estimated at approximately 7.6% of the world’s general population. One of the strongest factors in the onset of SP is PTSD, which is often found among professional firefighters. Our...
Sleep Paralysis among Professional Firefighters and a Possible Association with PTSD-Online Survey-Based Study.
Paulina Wróbel-Knybel, Joanna Rog, Baland Jalal, Paweł Szewczyk, Hanna Karakuła-Juchnowicz
Oct 29, 2021
The prevalence of sleep paralysis (SP) is estimated at approximately 7.6% of the world's general population. One of the strongest factors in the onset of SP is PTSD, which is often found among professional firefighters. Our...
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