Politics by Scientific Means and Science by Political Means

Evaluating Scientific Work by Means of Diffusion

There are two approaches for evaluating scientific papers. The classic way is to choose well established representatives of the specific scientific community and have them evaluate their colleague’s work. The other method of evaluation, the so called peer-evaluation method, is where peers (famous or otherwise) of the author evaluate the paper. Peer-evaluation resembles the diffusion process in ...

Segmentation of Photospheric Solar Images by Using c-Means,k-Means, and FCM Algorithms

Remote Voting by Electronic Means : Some Legal and Political Objections

—Pierre Lévy, amongst other authors, argues that e-technology will lead to a rebirth of the ancient agora; a virtual marketplace of political ideas in which all members of a new worldwide on-line political community can take part in an expanded democracy. It is argued herein that Lévy is fundamentally mistaken; there are important legal objections to on-line voting and Lévy's conception of the ...

Agroclimate Zoning of Esfahan Province by Means of Moisture Indices

The zoning of phenomena based on geographical location has a long history; any geographical zone is a part on ground level, which possesses noticeable internal consistency in terms of its existing phenomena and processes. Agroclimatic zoning is mainly purposed to determine agroclimate regions and to evaluate these zones based on their relative utility in order to cultivate varieties of agricult...

Monthly runoff forecasting by means of artificial neural networks (ANNs)

Over the last decade or so, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become one of the most promising tools formodelling hydrological processes such as rainfall runoff processes. However, the employment of a single model doesnot seem to be an appropriate approach for modelling such a complex, nonlinear, and discontinuous process thatvaries in space and time. For this reason, this study aims at de...