iran is located in a high-risk seismic zone of earthquakes. it has thousands of valuable historic buildings, mostly made of unreinforced masonry, which is quite vulnerable to natural hazards, especially earthquakes. the conservation and seismic upgrading of these buildings is vital for their survival. however, resources are limited and some sort of prioritization is needed in order to allocate ...

in this paper, heir-equations method is applied to investigate nonclassical symmetries and new solutions of the black-scholes equation. nonlinear self-adjointness is proved and infinite number of conservation laws are computed by a new conservation laws theorem.

In 2013, I was asked by the weekly Die Zeit to record a lecture series about world literature, focusing on works of authors who received Nobel Prize (www.zeitakademie.de/seminare/die-schoenen-kuenste/weltliteratur/). The recording raised number unanswered questions, which four years later sought answer in my book Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur, trying show that processes ca...

This article identifies the agenda of decoloniality as a call to seek solutions Africa’s problems from within herself (Africa). has its hold in colonial and post-independent attempts by African Nationalists, writers, freedom fighters philosophers defend cultural heritages, even against underestimation scholars other climes world. It further argues that, though justice done this quest would affo...

In the attempt to account for striking differences between learning activities of immigrant mathematics students from the former Soviet Union and of their native Israeli classmates, we introduce the notions of actual and designated identities. These identities are subsequently presented as important factors that mold learning and influence its effectiveness. Since designated identities may be s...

0 asks. First, they need to find a suitable host in time nd – in case of endoparasites – they have to be able o disrupt the epithelial lining of the host (e.g., skin, ntestine) in order to enter. During this penetration proess and once inside, the parasites immediately have o cope with the host’s innate immune system (IS) and in case of reinfection – also with the adaptive IS. ubsequently, they...

When children of diverse disabilities and students with ELL rulings are included in traditional classrooms, regular education teachers face a dilemma: How to teach the standard curriculum and teach the new inclusion students? How do they teach students with different heritages and linguistic backgrounds? Differentiated Instruction (DI) is content, process, and product related to student learnin...

IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), which was launched in 1960, formed the Computer History Committee in 1970 in order to record the early history of Japanese computers. The Committee has continued its activities, publishing history related books, maintaining the Virtual Computer Museum web pages, editing articles about old computers and technologies, etc. Recently, it started anoth...