This paper focuses on the concept of consciousness and liminality in the Iranian Diaspora and the way Iranians create digital diasporas where they can practise cultural identities outside the homeland. The discussion elaborates on the concept of traditional dowreh (family/social circle) in the fibre of Persian culture and then illustrates the creation of a virtual dowreh among...

This paper presents the Transform-Based Layered Query (TLQ) System, which is proposed as a new image querying scheme aiming at decreasing retrieval processing time and run-time memory consumption. The TT.,Q system contains abstract layers in both indexing and querying phases. These layers are based on linear or nonlinear transformations that reduce image and feature data dimensions. The propose...

The author identifies himself as a homosexual with antibodies to human T cell lymphotropic virus III (HTLV-III). He describes his reactions to learning that he might develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to the counseling sessions which helped him cope. While he does not advocate compulsory testing of homosexuals for antibody to HTLV-III, he recommends voluntary participation pr...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to build basic information related to the production and market of human vaccine products in Korea, which can be an important indicator to provide basic data in practical use. MATERIALS AND METHODS Statistical data were obtained from the Bank of Korea, Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Korea Pharmaceutical Traders Association, and Korea Pharmaceut...

Workshop on Web Services-based Grid Applications (WSGA), Monday, August 14th, morning Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia (PDM), Monday, August 14th, morning Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks (WSNet), Monday, August 14th, all day 3rd International Workshop on Embedded Computing (EC-06), Monday, August 14th, all day Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Networks for Parallel, ...