a tug which, according to towage contract, renders salvage services to tow, is not, principally, entitled to reward, although she has, practically, rescued the tow from danger. notwithstanding this, section 176 of iranian maritime act says: a tug has no right to remuneration for assistance to or salvage of the vessel she is towing or of the vessel cargo, except where she has rendered exceptiona...

Despite nutrient enrichment having widely reported negative impacts on biodiversity, fertilizer is routinely applied in post mining restoration to enhance plant growth and establishment. Focusing surface mine (predominately bauxite mineral sands), we outline the long-term of fertilizer, particularly phosphorus community composition, species richness, fire fuel loads, belowground nutrient-cyclin...

the extent of “benefits”, as the subject of khums, is one of the controversial discourses among the imāmī jurists, which is of great importance because of its applicability. the “acquired benefits” and “benefits in general” are the two significant views in the discourses concerning khums. in this research, the evidences for any of these two views are critically reviewed. for the first view, two...

Since its invention in 1876 the telephone has been used as a tool for delivering health care: Alexander Graham Bell’s first recorded telephone call was for medical help after he spilt sulphuric acid on himself. By the 1970s clinical enthusiasts were describing the telephone as having become as much a part of standard medical equipment as the stethoscope. However, despite the widespread use of t...

Despite their widespread adoption, Product Quantization techniques were recently shown to be inferior to other hashing techniques. In this work, we present an improved Deep Product Quantization (DPQ) technique that leads to more accurate retrieval and classification than the latest state of the art methods, while having similar computational complexity and memory footprint as the Product Quanti...