the present paper aims to study the iranian-made movie “aroos-e-atash” (the bride of fire), using semiotic methodology at the three following levels: description (social codes), representation (technical codes) and ideology (ideological codes). the process of interconnections and interactions between these three types of codes resulted in these findings: although the movie enjoys an emancipatio...

Hashing techniques have become very popular to solve the content-based image retrieval problem in gigantic image databases because they allow to represent feature vectors using compact binary codes. Binary codes provide speed and are memory-efficient. Different approaches have been taken by researchers, some of them based on the Spectral Hashing objective function, among these the recently prop...

The standard genetic code is well known to be optimized for minimizing the phenotypic effects of single nucleotide substitutions, a property that was likely selected for during the emergence of a universal code. Given the fitness advantage afforded by high standing genetic diversity in a population in a dynamic environment, it is possible that selection to explore a large fraction of the space ...

Consistent with capacity design principles and requirements of ductile behavior, the 2005 AISC and 2001 CSA seismic design codes require that the intermediate horizontal boundary elements HBEs of steel plate shear walls SPSWs be designed to remain essentially elastic with the exception of plastic hinges at their ends when the infill plates fully yield under seismic loading. However, the unexpec...

Frailty is associated with poor quality outcomes. To examine associations between frailty and hospital readmission or mortality in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Retrospectively assessed the 2016 US Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) including adults ≥ 65 years pre-existing CHD. A validated Hospital Risk Score (HFRS) using ICD-10-CM codes identified risk. Outcomes included: Readmission (30-d...

this guide to the identification of iranian freshwater snails has been prepared with aim of helping individuals involved in field work, but who have had no specialized training in taxonomy to differentiate snail specimens which they collect to certain groups by means of simple identification key. the guide pays special attention to the principal snail groups which transmit human schistosomiasis...

background and aims: infectious bursal disease (ibd) is an acute contagious viral disease of birds worldwide. the causative virus induces a persistent immune suppression following destroy b lymphocytes precursors in bursal lymphoid follicles. vaccination is the main strategy for prevention of the disease in commercial poultry industry. materials and methods: to produce a live vaccine against th...

introduction: the review of medical records with the aim of assessing the quality of codes has long been conducted in different countries. auditing medical coding, as an instructive approach, could help to review the quality of codes objectively using defined attributes, and this in turn would lead to improvement of the quality of codes. method: the current study aimed to present a model for au...

ABSTRACT Cosmic ray (CR)-modified shocks are a demanding test of numerical codes. We use them to and validate the two-moment method for CR hydrodynamics, as well characterize realism shock acceleration in two-fluid simulations which inevitably arises. Previously, codes were unable incorporate streaming this regime, have never been compared against analytic solutions. First, we find new solution...