the issuing of credit cards by banks and other financial and credit institutions is a new experience in iran. the compatibility of credit cards with islamic rules and islamic banking and establishment of a legal structure for maintaining security for such cards, avoiding frauds and settling relating disputes is one of the most challenging issues of the iranian legislation. as the issuance and u...

Given is a deal of ten cards over three players, such that two players each get four cards and the remaining player (the ‘eavesdropper’) two cards. We show that there does not exist a protocol of two steps for the four-card players to inform each other safely of their hands of cards, and we then present a protocol of three steps that achieves that goal. We verify the properties of that protocol...

purpose : design and establishment of persian near reading card for clinical use and practice methods : at first, card dimension, word and character size and specifications were calculated. then, english near reading card, richmond product inc, was considered as a template. context and syntax contribute to reading accuracy and efficacy of the richmond card was considered for designed persian ca...

Hierarchy of cities reflects the ubiquitous structure frequently observed in the natural world and social institutions. Where there is a hierarchy with cascade structure, there is a Zipf’s rank-size distribution, and vice versa. However, we have no theory to explain the spatial dynamics associated with Zipf’s law of cities. In this paper, a new angle of view is proposed to find the simple rules...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background: the angular dependency of response for tld cards may cause deviation  from its true value on the results of environmental dosimetry, since tlds may  be exposed to radiation at different angles of incidence from the surrounding area. objective: a 3d setting of tld cards has been calibrated isotropically in a standard  radiation field to eval...

In India, the credit card usage as well as the penetration has been found to be very low compared to that of debit cards. Though banks offer the best of the services, still there are apprehensions about the risks involved in using a credit card in India. Hence, this study investigates the customer’s adoption behavior of credit cards and determines the factors which influence the acceptance amon...

The independence of two phenotypic characters affected by both pleiotropic and nonpleiotropic mutations is investigated using a generalization of M. Slatkin's stepwise mutation model of 1987. The model is used to determine whether predictions of either the multivariate normal model introduced in 1980 by R. Lande or the house-of-cards model introduced in 1985 by M. Turelli can be regarded as typ...