In Indian legislative history the year 1986 will be remembered for passing a revolutionary Act for consumers i.e. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986. After enactment of this statute the vacuum in law fulfilled with respect to any specific law for settlement of consumer disputes. This act provides three-tier redressal machinery for speedy settlement of grievances of consumers. Year 2013 is the si...

sayyed mortaza is one of the noble imami scholors in 4-5th century and an specialist in some different islamic disciplines such as fegh, kalam, tafsir. he believed the preference of reason in explaining and criticizing of the traditions. this article addresses his views on relation of reason and narration. he uses reason to criticize and interpret narrations. reason in his view has an independe...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

A particular challenge for undertaking urbanization mapping of Beirut is the absence of a unified understanding of the city. Migration, informal settlements, a lack of urban planning, political corruption, as well as internal conflict have made this task even harder. The population in Lebanon is unevenly distributed among regions, where one third of the population resides in the Greater Beirut ...