abū al-jārūd is one of the leading figures of zaydis and the narrator of the significant books and traditions of imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) and imam al-bāqir (a.s.), who has received the attention of the imāmī rijālīs (biographers) and dignitaries. on one hand, the imāmī and sunnī rijālīs have weakened him and, on the other hand, he is known as the transmitter of many and sometimes important traditio...

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Scientists call pasture a natural eco-system and range is an agricultural eco-system. In this point of view although pasture that was full of plants growing by itself and not growing by human being (Pirdashti, 2007; Mohgadam, 2005) and two groups of living beings such as human being, plants, domesticated, and not living being like weather, Wind, gradient which are effective in making of pasture...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer (BC) is one of the most deadly cancers diagnosed among middle-aged women. Precise diagnosis and prognosis are crucial to reduce the high death rate. In this paper we present a framework for automatic malignancy grading of fine needle aspiration biopsy tissue. The malignancy grade is one of the most important factors taken into cons...

zafar n?meh was written by hamdoll?h mostoufi who was a famous iranian historian and geographer in the mongol era and his versified book covers the history of iran after islam until 1336 ad. although this is one of the important sources in the study of mongol era, it has not been considered properly, because this book went under the shadow of another well-known book on history of mongol, j?mi a...

Higher order neural networks, although known for their power, have not been acknowledged very much in literature, mainly due to their apparent computational complexity. In this paper a proposal ([Reid et al. 1989]) to improve the efficiency of such networks is taken and built into a pattern recognition system that autonomously learns to categorize and recognize patterns independent from their p...

In this paper, for the Stratified Median Ranked Set Sampling (SMRSS), proposed by Ibrahim et al. (2010), we examine the proportional and optimum sample allocations that are two well-known methods for sample allocation in stratified sampling. We show that the variances of the mean estimators of a symmetric population in SMRSS using optimum and proportional allocations to strata are smaller than ...

We are performing a survey of the Galactic Center region (Sidoli et al., 1998a) with the BeppoSAX satellite. Several known point sources are visible (including one at the position of SgrA*), as well as newly discovered sources and diffuse emission. Here we report the preliminary results of the on–going analysis of both the point sources and the diffuse X–ray emission.

alopecia areata is a dermatologic disorder which presents itself with sudden and patchy hair loss. the aim of this study is to assess the issues related to the similar condition in ancient manuscripts of traditional persian medicine. this is a descriptive review study in which a number of well-known traditional persian manuscripts such as; kamil al-sina’a al-tibbiyyaby al-majusi, ‘ali ibn al-’a...