the contract of marriage is the most important contract which a person may conclude during his or her life. as women are vulnerable and their commitment to the marriage is very tight, iranian legislator should protect women on the conclusion of marriage contracts in three stages; before age of puberty by prohibiting any marriage, after age of puberty but before attaining majority by judicial su...

Rights) that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . " History has repeatedly demonstrated the need for separation of church and state which our United States Constitution guarantees. By imposing the tenets of any religious group on all we would destroy the liberty of all not in agreement with the state-sponsored morali...

Configurable computers based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are capable of accelerating suitable applications by several orders of magnitude when compared to traditional processor-based architectures [3]. However, the programming paradigm for such machines is often no more than a set of hand-crafted circuits, one per FPGA in the system. Programmers must explicitly account for machine...

HIV has been linked to several autoimmune disorders since its emergence in the 1980s. By affecting different cells and pathways in the immune system, HIV induces the development of certain autoimmune diseases while prohibiting the emergence of others. Dermatomyositis has been rarely described in patients with HIV. We present a case of dermatomyositis in a patient with HIV and explore the pathog...

We present a first order formula characterizing the distributive lattices L whose Priestley spaces P(L) contain no copy of a finite forest T . For Heyting algebras L, prohibiting a finite poset T in P(L) is characterized by equations iff T is a tree. We also give a condition characterizing the distributive lattices whose Priestley spaces contain no copy of a finite forest with a single addition...

Prohibiting configurations (≡ induced finite connected posets) in Priestley spaces and properties of the associated classes of distributive lattices, and the related problem of configurations in coproducts of Priestley spaces, have been brought to satisfactory conclusions in case of configurations with a unique maximal element. The general case is, however, far from settled. After a short surve...

Modeling of interacting galaxies suffers from an extended parameter space prohibiting traditional grid based search strategies. As an alternative approach a combination of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) with fast restricted N-body simulations can be applied. A typical fit takes about 3–6 CPU-hours on a PentiumII processor. Here we present a parallel implementation of our GA which reduces the CPU-requ...

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