everyone looks unsightly at the human, who has been created from feeble sperm he will prostrate to great creator who has created everything with the finest stature. the holy qur'an has encouraged the fair and conscientious seekers of truth to meditate on the quality of human creation, creation of body limbs and recognition of his innovations. the hand is one of the body limbs, be used in d...

he United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copen-hagen (7–18 December) will soon be behind us. Climate change, however, continues to progress more rapidly and disruptively than climate scientists foreshadowed only 5 years ago. Recent peer-reviewed reports of climate change processes and impacts show, among other effects, an increased rate of greenhouse gas accumulation in the lower atmosphe...

Correct registration between pre-operative high-resolution images and intra-operative data of lower detail is a fundamental requirement in image-guided liver surgery. We propose a multi modality liver model for measuring the accuracy of such registration methods. A freshly explanted porcine liver is artificially perfused by a peristaltic pump and liver motion is simulated by means of inflatable...

We evaluate the accuracy and precision of different techniques for measuring brain volumes based on MRI. We compare two established software packages that offer an automated image analysis, EMS and SIENAX, and a third method, which we present. The latter is based on the Interactive Watershed Transform and a model based histogram analysis. All methods are evaluated with respect to noise, image i...

Collecting ground truth data for music research requires large amounts of time and money. To avoid these costs, researchers are now trying to collect information through online multiplayer games with the underlying purpose of collecting scientific data. In this paper we present two case studies of such games created for data collection in music information retrieval (MIR): Emotify, for emotiona...

Human rights do not represent an absolute truth. Otherwise, they would represent ideology, which is contradictory to the basic idea of human rights itself. Consequently, there is a need for redefinition of the main presuppositions of modern conception of human rights represented in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This paper argues that Rawls’s conception of human rights is significan...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...