the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

In the last three decades, the development of communication and networking technology has rapidly increased and the use of the internet has become one of the tasks in our daily life. The revolution of the internet from transferring the data to the multimedia applications makes it one of the most important and quickest media for delivering the information in the world. On the other side, this re...

The genetic revolution will touch all disciplines of medicine, much like the antibiotic discoveries in the last century did. However, genetic medicine is not an immediate "magic bullet" for all noninfectious conditions. Despite the sometimes melodramatic announcements by the lay media, there are hurdles to overcome before genetic treatments become as ubiquitous as antibiotics. These barriers fa...

This paper explores the growth of online mobilizations using data from the ‘indignados’ (the ‘outraged’) movement in Spain, which emerged under the influence of the revolution in Egypt and as a precursor to the global Occupy mobilizations. The data tracks Twitter activity around the protests that took place in May 2011, which led to the formation of camp sites in dozens of cities all over the c...

The enforcement of intellectual property rights is dif cult for digital data One possibility to support the enforcement is the embedding of digital watermarks containing information about copyright owner and or receiver of the data Watermarking methods have al ready been presented for audio images video and polygonal D models In this paper we present a method for digital watermarking of model a...

Depending on the application, audio watermarking systems must be robust to piracy attacks. Desynchronization attacks, aimed at preventing the detector from correctly locating the information contained in the watermark, are particularly diÆcult to neutralize. In this paper, we introduce resynchronization methods for audio watermarking based on the use of training sequences. These methods reverse...

It is well accepted that the rise in the proliferation of inexpensive digital media collection and manipulation devices has motivated the need to access this data by content rather than by keywords. The requirements of content based access are well understood by the digital media research community and there is no need to elaborate further here. Parsing multimedia streams by detection and class...

The sharing economy will blur the distinctions between renting and owning a wide variety of durable products. The first great entrepreneurial (Neolithic) revolution transformed hunter-gatherers into fixed agriculturalists. The second (Industrial) revolution dramatically reduced the costs of owning products. The third (Transactions Costs) revolution will reduce the costs of exchange, fostering a...

The Significance of Information Management As an outgrowth of the continuous improvement in the information technologies since the beginning of the 90’s, the development of the resulting data networks is showing the way into the Age of Information. The corresponding communication and information technologies are characterized by such buzzwords as online service; interactive television; the Inte...