khwaja nasīr al-dīn tūsī is accused, by many, of collaborating with the mongol invaders and legitimizing their domination (power). using the identity theory of manuel castells and discourse theory, the present essay hypothesizes that khwaja nasīr has tried to create iranian identity utilizing the archetypes of iranshahr and has founded a programmed identity that was later followed by other bure...

We are living in a world where seeing is no longer believing – the technology that allows for digital media to be manipulated and distorted is developing at break-neck speeds. And at the same time our understanding of the technological, ethical, and legal implications is lagging behind. How is this technology affecting our society and how do we contend with the implications? Hany Farid describe...

Farid Farahmand1, Isabella Cerutti2, Ankitkumar N. Patel3, Jason P. Jue3 and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues4∗,† 1Department of Engineering Science, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA 2Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy 3Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA 4Instituto de Telecomunicacões, NetGNA Group, Portugal University of...

Moises Solis, Florent Ravelet, Sofiane Khelladi, Farid Bakir. Experimental and numerical analysis of the flow inside a configuration including an axial pump and a tubular exchanger. ASME. Proceedings of ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting and 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, FEDSM2010-ICNMM2010., Aug 2010, Montreal, Can...

Cerinţele pietei şi presiunile din cadrul social necesită sisteme de fabricaţie eficiente care să ţină pasul cu tendinţele mereu crescânde din domeniu. De aici rezultă necesitatea dezvoltării unor sisteme noi de control al fabricaţiei care să poată face faţă schimbărilor şi perturbaţiilor din producţie într-un mod eficient. În acest sens, în ultimul deceniu au fost făcute numeroase cercetări şi...

The behaviour of multiple stock markets can be described within the framework of complex dynamic systems (CDS). A representative technique of the framework is the dynamic interaction network (DIN), recently developed in the bioinformatics domain (Chan et al., 2006). DINs are capable of modelling dynamic interactions between genes and predicting their future expressions. In this paper, we adopt ...

since ethics is one of the subdivisions of practical wisdom, islamic philosopher’s view point is very important in explanation of theoretical and practical reason. this paper is going to analyze the distinction between practical and theoretical reason from haeri’s point of view. in order to finding the roots of his issue, at the beginning we will propose the idea of philosophers like farabi, ib...