the major difference between iranian traditional medicine and allopathic medicine is in the application  of  evidence  and  documents.  in  this  study,  criteria  for  evidence-based  practice  in  iranian traditional medicine and its rules of practice were studied. the experts’ views were investigated through in- depth, semi-structured interviews and the results were categorized into four mai...

in this study, we investigate the further properties of quasi irresolute topological groupsdened in [20]. we show that if a group homomorphism f between quasi irresolute topologicalgroups is irresolute at eg, then f is irresolute on g. later we prove that in a semi-connectedquasi irresolute topological group (g; ; ), if v is any symmetric semi-open neighborhood ofeg, then g is generated by v...

Burrows serve many functions for animals by providing a location for rearing young, sleeping, hibernation, food storage, and protection from predators and environmental extremes (Reichman & Smith 1990; Kinlaw 1999). Architectural features of burrows such as depth, orientation, and number of entrances can enhance specific functions critical to the occupant’s fitness. In particular, burrow archit...

Karst spring systems provide permanent water sources in semi-arid to arid environments, supporting a diverse aquatic community. Numerous karst streams in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos regions of Texas support two distinct fish assemblages, spring-associated species and riverine species. Previous studies have identified constant water temperature as the segregating factor but have lacked t...

[1] Marine dissolved organic matter is a massive reservoir of carbon holding >200x the ocean biomass inventory. Primarily produced at the ocean surface and then exported to depth with overturn of the water column, this carbon can be sequestered in the ocean interior for centuries. Understanding the loss of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) upon export has been data limited, but recent global ocean...

Interdependencies of ecologic, hydrologic, and social systems challenge traditional approaches to natural resource management in semi-arid regions. As a complex social-ecological system, water demands in the Sonoran Desert from agricultural and urban users often conflicts with water needs for its ecologically-significant riparian corridors. To explore this system, we developed an agent-based mo...

We investigate the phenomenon of depth-reduction in commutative and non-commutative arithmetic circuits. We prove that in the commutative setting, uniform semi-unbounded arithmetic circuits of logarithmic depth are as powerful as uniform arithmetic circuits of polynomial degree (and unrestricted depth); earlier proofs did not work in the uniform setting. This also provides a uni ed proof of the...

In Paper I we studied the theory of gravitational microlensing for a planar distribution of point masses. In this second paper, we extend the analysis to a three-dimensional lens distribution. First we study the lensing properties of three-dimensional lens distributions by considering in detail the critical curves, the caustics, the illumination patterns, and the magnification cross-sections σ(...

In the field of video segmentation, the majority methods are based on monocular video. Traditional unsupervised segmentation algorithm does not perform well in terms of time efficiency and accuracy, because of the bottleneck on how to define the foreground. Semi-supervised segmentation algorithm aims to propagate the label information in one or more key frames, which are generated manually and ...