social security of iran has passed different stages and today has entered the stages of organizational development and universal coverage. but this system, like other man-made systems, has inadequacies which must be rectified. in this article, legal system of iran has been studied from legal point of view and necessary proposals have been presented in order to remove these defects: main axis of...

In this extended abstract we report on results recently achieved for answering instance queries relaxed by concept similarity measures [4]. Traditionally, Description Logic (DL) reasoning systems only support crisp inference services, like subsumption and instances queries. The latter can be effectively used to perform different types of search tasks: Given an ABox describing a set of individua...

The present study explores the possibility of systematic acoustic differences that could be used to differentiate ‘homophones’. This study investigates productions of like in western Canadian English, focussing specifically on acoustic characteristics and whether they differ across multiple distinct lexical and grammatical functions. Segment duration, word duration, and degree of diphthongizati...

We have developed Textpresso, a new text-mining system for scientific literature whose capabilities go far beyond those of a simple keyword search engine. Textpresso's two major elements are a collection of the full text of scientific articles split into individual sentences, and the implementation of categories of terms for which a database of articles and individual sentences can be searched....

Similarities in public sector organizations allow the reuse of SW products using open-source (OS) like characteristics. This enables cost savings as organizations can reuse and tailor SW products developed by other organizations free of charge. However, without coordination SW products will evolve in an uncontrolled manner. This article argues the importance of application lifecycle management ...