fardid is an iranian contemporary philosopher who grows up in iran's inflamed political atmosphere. he is a verbal philosopher who is interested in iran's past history. having scattered speech and don't having any written document result to make a difficulty in finding his philosopher's ideas. fardid's philosophy isn't out of history and never be an abstract philos...

In CMU's Blizzard Challenge 2005 entry we investigated twelve ideas for improving Festival-based unit selection voices. We tracked progress by adopting a 3-tiered strategy in which candidate ideas must pass through three stages of listening tests to warrant inclusion in the final build. This allowed us to evaluate ideas consistently without us having large human resources at our disposal, and t...

Purpose – The assumption of ecological thinking as a main ideology for social systems implies many relevant changes concerning the relation between social and ecological systems. Changes meaning a deep redefinition of goals and strategies pursued for centuries by human communities, like the uncertainty reduction in relation to resources’ availability and management, defence respect to variance ...

negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

In recent years, ideas from statistics and scientific computing have begun to interact in increasingly sophisticated and fruitful ways with ideas from computer science and the theory of algorithms to aid in the development of improved worst-case algorithms that are useful for large-scale scientific and Internet data analysis problems. In this chapter, I will describe two recent examples—one hav...