The trend to digitize (historic) paper-based archives has emerged in the last years. The advantages of digital archives are easy access, searchability and machine readability. These advantages can only be ensured if few or no OCR errors are present. These errors are the result of misrecognized characters during the OCR process. Large archives make it unreasonable to correct errors manually. The...

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Agricultural land use commonly leaves a persistent signature on the ecosystems that develop after agricultural abandonment. Th is agricultural legacy limits the biodiversity supported by post-agricultural habitats compared to remnant habitats that have never been used for agriculture. In particular, beta diversity (variation in community composition across space) at both large and small spatial...

Post-evaluation for agricultural project (PEAP) is an important indispensable aspect of agricultural project cycle management. Based on the comparison of the virtual situation and in advanced anticipation of the investigation, PEAP can be used to determine the variation and find the improving method through analyzing the reason, feedbacking the information, and summarizing the lessons, so as to...

the article presents an account of the library and information science (lis) education in iran. it briefly reviews the growth and development of the lis education in the periods: 1939-1978, as the pre- islamic revolution period, and 1979- 2007, as the post –islamic revolution period. the paper covers an up-to-date list of the 29 universities in iran offering various lis programs including post-...