development of the modern education system and iranian high interest in studying the new science and broad government support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means imply the entrance of science and scientific attitude to iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political st...

this essay is about mulla sadra and allameh tabatabaei’s views on the concept and extension of the “world of zar (pre-existence)” (the pervading meaning of verse 172, al-araf, holly quran). in this research, based on sadra and tabatabaei’s basic thoughts and by using the descriptive and analytic method the following results have been achieved: 1. the existence of the world of zar is proved by s...

Drawing upon a series of studies that examines the information world of poor people, the author discovers four critical concepts that serve as the basis for defining an impoverished life-world. These concepts are risk-taking, secrecy, deception, and situational relevance. Moving back and forth among the worlds of janitors, single mothers, and an aging population, the author develops a conceptua...

Discovering the three dimensional structure of an object is important for a variety of robot tasks. Single sensor systems such as machine vision systems cannot reliably compute three dimensional structure in unconstrained environments. Active, exploratory tactile sensing can be used to complement passive stereo vision data to derive robust surface and feature descriptions of objects. The contro...

BACKGROUND The links between nature and nurture need to be redefined to accommodate anthropogenic chemical contamination. Although some local remediation of contamination has occurred, at the global level this is simply not possible. Contaminants are spread by population migration, by introduction via the food chain, and through air and water currents, even to regions that were never exposed di...

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Journal of Futures Studies, May 2007, 11(4): 97 104 How do we conceive of the world system? For a long time, say 1950-2000, there were two clear answers based on real world divisions coinciding with the compass: the West-East, and the North-South discourses; the former based on ideology and military alliances and the latter on economic development. NATO versus WTO, the North Atlantic Treaty Org...

This paper explores the sociological and cultural implications of blockchain technology, specifically focusing on three prominent ecosystems: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Algorand. The study utilizes concept lifeworld, which encompasses collective human perceptions everyday communicative social interaction, to analyze formation perpetuation lifeworlds within these ecosystems. By employing scene theory as...