Common tasks in document analysis, such as binarization, line extraction etc., are still considered difficult for highly degraded text documents. Having reliable fundamental information regarding the characters of the document, such as the distribution of character dimensions and stroke width, can significantly improve the performance of these tasks. We introduce a novel perspective of the imag...

To construct a model in which competencies expected from female high school students are outlined, from among all experts in psychology, education, Islamic studies, and Islamic counseling working in Tehran high schools, 18 were  initially and purposefully selected and then interviewed extensively on the topic. The sampling and interviewing continued to the point of saturation. Content analyses ...

We present human guided evolution of brochure documents. The user interacts with a genetic algorithm, which evolves placeholders, each placeholder represented with one of three shapes: (1) ellipse, (2) rectangle, and (3) rounded rectangle. The user guides the evolutionary process by evaluating a small subset taken from a large population of documents. Along with the subjective user input, indiv...

Operational objective number 11 of the Fundamental Reform Document of Education, Act 4, calls for the establishment of a system of competency evaluation of teachers comprised of moral, revolutionary, and professional beliefs and consistent with the goals and foundations of the document. In order to identify these competencies and their constituents, reliable library sources were initially revie...

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ characteristics based on the implications of Ministry of Education’s strategic plans. This applied research utilized qualitative content analysis with a conventional approach and was a library research in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study was comprised of Ministry of Education’s strategic plans, i.e., the The...

We consider diierence equations y(s + 1) = A(s)y(s), where A(s) is an n n-matrix meromorphic in a neighborhood of 1 with det A(s) 6 6 0. In general, the formal fundamental solutions of this equation involve gamma-functions which give rise to the critical variable s log s and a level 1 +. We show that, under a mild condition, formal fundamental matrices of the equation can be summed uniquely to ...