PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN is the traditional name given to the ancestor language of the Indo-European family that is spread from Iceland to Chinese Turkestan and from Scandinavia to the Near East. A PROTO-LANGUAGE (Gk. prõtos ‘first’) refers to the earliest form of a language family presupposed by all of its descendants. There will forever be major gaps in the reconstruction of proto-languages, but a...

Informal economy (IE) is second only to the US economy in size; however, the role of ICT in IE remains largely unexplored. In this study, we conduct an empirical analysis of the role of ICT in IE growth. With PLS analysis involving more than 100 nations, we show that ICT products and software piracy may play important roles in IE growth, that impact of ICT and other determinants on IE growth re...

In this paper we introduce an extension of the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning model to study the problem of learning inclusion hierarchies of concepts (sometimes called is-a hierarchies) from random examples. Using only the hypothesis representations output over many different runs of a learning algorithm, we wish to reconstruct the partial order (with respect to generality) amon...

Evaluation of Genetic Parameters Yield and Agronomic Characteristics in Domestic Foreign Hybrid Cultivars Cucurbita pepo L. Isfahan

Arefeh Kazemi 1,*, Antonio Toral 2, Andy Way 3, Amirhassan Monadjemi 1,* and Mohammadali Nematbakhsh 1 1 Department of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; [email protected] 2 Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen 9712 EK, The Netherlands; [email protected] 3 ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Du...

Determining the Potential Habitat of Astragalus verus using CART Regression Decision Tree Algorithm (Case Study: West Isfahan Province)

1Department of Microbiology; 2Department of Environmental Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to A. Tavakoli: [email protected]). Received: 05/10/03; accepted: 22/03/04 ABSTRACT To investigate the inactivation of potential pathogens, we evaluated survival rates for Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Aeromonas hydrophila and Sa...

Using Ephestia kuehniella larvae as hosts, invert emulsion (IE) and an aqueous suspension (AS) of Beauveria bassiana (isolate IR34-JS2) and Metarhizium anisopliae (isolate IR41-TT1) formulations were compared when stored for three months at either 3 °C or 25 °C. Initially, IE formulations of isolates JS2 and TT1 were 13- and 14-fold more virulent than AS formulations, based on their LC50 values...

1Medical Radiation Department and Medical Imaging Research Center, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 2Center for Research in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Physics Unit, Radiotherapy Department, Namazi Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Radiology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4Medical Physics Depa...

1. Student's Research Committee, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord , Iran 2. Dept. of Public Health, School of Public Health, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran 3. Dept. of Public Health, School of Public Health, Abadan School of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 5...