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Prolegomena: questions to be settled before the study of an author, or a text

Contrary to what its title suggests, this book is not a prescriptive argument about principles of hermeneutics but a study of Greek and Roman (and early Christian) views on what preliminary issues (philological, biographical) should be dealt with before actually reading the texts of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, medical writers such as Hippocrates and Galen, and the Bible....

Don't get the message: the effect of a warning text before visiting a proanorexia website.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effect of the placement of a warning text before visiting proanorexia websites on actual access of these websites. METHOD A separate webpage with a warning text aiming at first-time visitors was placed before each proanorexia website hosted by a Dutch Internet provider. During the research period of 1 year, the numbers of hits at the warning webpage were regi...

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Within-text and Out-of-text Structures of Islamic-Iranian Manuscripts

Despite some differences, Islamic-Iranianmanuscriptshave special common out-of-text and within-text structures. These structures were followed by authors, scribes and transcription centers during centuries when transcription tradition was dominant throughout the Islamic world. In this article, these common features were considered in detail. Some manuscript folios preserved in National Library ...

Using Fuzzy LR Numbers in Bayesian Text Classifier for Classifying Persian Text Documents

Text Classification is an important research field in information retrieval and text mining. The main task in text classification is to assign text documents in predefined categories based on documents’ contents and labeled-training samples. Since word detection is a difficult and time consuming task in Persian language, Bayesian text classifier is an appropriate approach to deal with different...

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Interest in climatic variability on time-scales of decades to centuries has grown rapidly in the last five years. Some of this interest has been engendered by the need to gain a better understanding of natural climatic variability in order to resolve more clearly the climatic signature of enhanced greenhouse warming. However, this focus on decadal and interdecadal fluctuations in climate has al...