after reza khan took power and established a powerful central government, the way was paved for planning reforms in iran. among these reforms was the improvement of the status of women, which tried to make iran similar to the west. this goal accounts for the removal of hijab and changing the appearance of the people. in the present study, through library research, the authors investigated how p...

Channel repertoires, the subsets of available channels that viewers actually watch, have typically been measured by relying on respondent recall. Using minute-by-minute peoplemeter data from Beijing, this study operationalized channel repertoire as the channels actually watched for 10 or more consecutive minutes during the week. On average, Chinese viewers used 13 channels, about one third of t...

This paper describes a new head detection method for people counting in crowded environments from a single camera. Our method adopts skeleton graph to distinguish person among people in crowded enviroments. The usage of skeleton graph is the main difference between this method and the traditional ones. Firstly, the skeleton graphs are calculated for each selected blob in the scene after foregro...

A significant nutrient load can be generated internally by publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). These nutrients can be found in the reject water, also known as side streams, of many municipal wastewater and sewage sludge treatment processes. These side streams include the reject stream from membranes, supernatant liquid from sludge digesters, and the centrate/filtrate return stream from sewa...

This paper reports findings from the initial stage of a funded collaborative research program aimed at identification of E-Commerce cultural change and technology uptake experience in Australia and comparison of Australian and United States experience. In collaboration with Georgia State University and employing the study script and methodology used in their landmark American research series, t...