Abstract In the analysis of complex stratigraphical structures like painted artefact, infrared (IR) techniques can provide precious information about elements hidden under superficial layers artwork, such as pictorial features and structural defects. This paper presents a novel complementary use reflectographic thermographic for survey three baroque paintings, preserved at Chigi Palace in Aricc...

Entity recommendation, providing entity suggestions relevant to the query that a user is searching for, has become a key feature of today’s web search engine. Despite the fact that related entities are relevant to users’ search queries, sometimes users cannot easily understand the recommended entities without evidences. This paper proposes a statistical model consisting of four sub-models to ge...

This paper studies a method for identifying cellular automata rules (CA rules). Given a sequence of CA configurations, we first seek an appropriate neighborhood of a cell and collect cellular changes of states as evidences. The collected evidences are then classified using a decision tree, which is used for constructing CA transition rules. Conditions for classifying evidences in a decision tre...

split of the moon (shaqq al-qamar) is introduced as one of the prophet’s miracles. this miracle is supported by evidences from the noble verse of the qur’ān ﴾the hour has drawn near and the moon is split.﴿ [q. 54:1], and a collection of the shī‘a and sunnī traditions. this noble verse has been understood in several ways, of which, one concerns the split of the moon in the time of the prophet an...

The present paper is an attempt to assess the credibility of various folk claims on medicinal uses of Bombax ceiba L. in view of scientific studies done so far. Almost all parts of the plant are widely used by tribal communities for gastrointestinal and skin diseases, gynecological and urino-genital disorders, general debility, diabetes and impotence. There are direct evidences of scientific va...