one of the practices, particularly important in shi'ism is to pay khums.somesunnites believe there is merely one verse in quran concerning khums; thus itisnot so important. this single verse includes the spoils of war, not business profitand trade as shiites believe in it. but shiites criticize sunnites argument asfollows: 1- firstly, there is more than one quranic verse regarding it, seco...

in this research, the numerical method of computational fluid dynamics and dimensionless parameter of froude number have been applied to determine the flow regime over ogee spillways.froude number is a dimensionless dynamic parameter calculated using the square root of the ratio of inertia force and gravitational force. considering that the study of the regimes of flow over hydraulic structures...

in this study, the daily total ozone column (toc) measured by the instruments of toms (2001) and omi (2005-2011) satellites and brewer ground station (2002-2004) is used to investigate the extreme ozone mini-holes over esfahan. based on previous reports on validation of the toc data products, it is found that there is no problem with homogenization of data records, which was provided by the abo...

Response modification factors (R-factor) are used in current seismic building codes to reduce earthquake forces associated with seismic design level to determine force levels. In recent years, many authors have shown great interest in the development of seismic structural systems and several theoretical and experimental studies have been conducted to investigate performance of dampers but littl...

In this paper, we study the iterative algorithms for saddle point problems(SPP). We present a new symmetric successive over-relaxation method with three parameters, which is the extension of the SSOR iteration method. Under some suitable conditions, we give the convergence results. Numerical examples further confirm the correctness of the theory and the effectiveness of the method. Key–Words: i...

Various subsets of the tracial state space of a unital C∗-algebra are studied. The largest of these subsets has a natural interpretation as the space of invariant means. II1-factor representations of a class of C ∗-algebras considered by Sorin Popa are also studied. These algebras are shown to have an unexpected variety of II1-factor representations. This general theory is related to various ot...

Draft Background The aim of this paper is to present an outline for discussion upon a new Research Challenge on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. This research challenge has been developed in the scope of project CROSSOVER “Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy-Making” in the view of the definition of a new Research Roadmap on ICT Tools for Governance and Policy Making, building ...

Objective: By combining fractional calculus and duality theory, a novel fractional-order primal-dual model which is equivalent with the fractional ROF model is proposed. We theoretically analyze its structural similarity with the saddle-point optimization model. So the algorithms for solving the saddle-point problem can be used for solving the model. Methods: The primal-dual algorithm based on ...

In this paper, we propose a medium access control (MAC) protocol to allow a radio over fiber-based wireless local area network (RoF-based WLAN) to coexist with legacy carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)-based WLANs. In RoF-based WLANs, there are long propagation delays between access points (APs) and stations (STAs). When an RoF-based WLAN uses the conventional CSMA...

BACKGROUND Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is usually based on trials where patients are randomized individually into two different, parallel, treatment groups. This paper concentrates on RCTs of a different design-two-period, two-treatment cross-over trials. METHODS The characteristics of these trials are outlined, with detailed examples of methods for analysis for both ...