I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

Note-taking activity was introduced into two types of university courses, a blended learning course and a fully online course, and causal relationships between student’s characteristics such as notetaking behaviour and learning performance were analysed. The objective was to improve learning activities in the online learning environment. Metrics such as personality, information literacy and not...

The VTEXT framework is designed to provide many of the desired features of an etextbook in such a way that it provides pedagogical value rather than just convenience for students. Many so-called e-textbook solutions available today provide few features beyond those possible with hardcopy textbooks. The VTEXT framework is built as an add-in to Microsoft’s note-taking program, OneNote. The add-in...

The astonishing skills of savants have been suggested to be latent in everyone, but are not normally accessible without a rare form of brain impairment. We attempted to simulate such brain impairment in healthy people by directing low-frequency magnetic pulses into the left fronto-temporal lobe. Significant stylistic changes in drawing were facilitated by the magnetic pulses in four of our 11 p...

in all societies it is normal for a group of physicians' s up and sit in parliament named legislatures, and laws are enacted to govern human society and its development. all of them, without exception, each and every program in the materials and corruption are considered and then there is the lack of interest and corruption, or rather the interests of the corruption, the law must be enacte...

Jimminy is a wearable personal note-taking and note-archival application that automatically displays notes that might be relevant to the wearer in his current environment. The system selects old notes to show on a head-up display based on the wearer’s current location, people in the immediate area, and the subject-line and contents of any current notes being written. This paper describes an exp...

“Note taking is an important practice during lectures. With the rapid development of electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptops, digital note-taking has become an option for many students. In the classroom setting, note takers might fail to record clearly organized notes due to limitations of time and devices. Therefore, users often need to manually organize long paragraphs of...

The evolution of Earth's climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere. Here we show that the slow ∼50 Wm-2 increase in TSI over the last ∼420 million years (an increase of ∼9 Wm-2 of radiative forcing) was almost completely negated by a long-term decline in atmospheri...

We report numerical observation of two new forms of stable localized solutions of the quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. The 6rst form is a stationary zero-velocity solution, which consists of two motionless fronts and a source between them. We call this structure the "composite" pulse. We show that in some range of parameters, a composite pulse can coexist with a plain pulse solution. A...

A growing number of X-ray sources based on the free-electron laser (XFEL) principle are presently under construction or have recently started operation. The intense, ultrashort pulses of these sources will enable new insights in many different fields of science. A key problem is to provide x-ray optical elements capable of collecting the largest possible fraction of the radiation and to focus i...