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ii Dedicated to my parents iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my advisor Dr. Gu Guoxiang for his valuable academic suggestions and patient guidance throughout the research and preparation of this thesis. His expertise and technical advice deeply influenced me and my work recorded herein. Without his valuable suggestions and constructive direction, this thesi...

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost I would like to thank Almighty God for granting me the capability and providing me health and opportunity to finish this work. I offer my sincerest gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Shahab Mehraeen, for the patient guidance, encouragement and advice he has provided throughout my time as his student. I consider myself very fortunate for being able to work with a...

being an outstanding hadith transmitter of sunni hadith collections as well as narrating some hadiths in shiite collections while having some relation with shiite fourth, fifth, and sixth imams on the one hand and occupying various posts for 45 years in marwanid court on the other, zuhri played a significant role in organizing and writing down hadiths. such a background caused contradictory jud...

Business logic is one of the most important logics based on the decision matrix. However, using this logic alone and environmental uncertainty leads to problems such as low accuracy and integrity in strategic planning. In this work, we use an intelligent model based on the neural-fuzzy approach aiming at a desired decision-making and reducing the uncertainty in the strategic planning in mineral...

Akhter, Shahab A., Karen M. D’Souza, Natalia N. Petrashevskaya, Jeanne Mialet-Perez, and Stephen B. Liggett. Myocardial 1-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms affect functional recovery after ischemic injury. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 290: H1427–H1432, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00908.2005.—Association studies suggest 1-adrenergic receptor ( 1-AR) polymorphisms are disease modifiers in heart...

Acknowledgment Whose hand and tongue is capable To fulfil the obligations of thanks to Him? – Sa'di I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me in the completion of this work. Especially I am highly indebted to my advisor, Atish Dabholkar, for his guidance and stimulating suggestions throughout the work. I would also like to thank all my collaborators, Ashoke Sen, Norihiro I...

We investigate the use of machine learning to create effective heuristics for search algorithms such as IDA* or heuristic-search planners such as FF. Our method aims to generate a sequence of heuristics from a given weak heuristic h0 and a set of unsolved training instances using a bootstrapping procedure. The training instances that can be solved using h0 provide training examples for a learni...

religious scientists opinion about the numbers meaning in quran is different. some of them including shahab-o-ddin ebne edris reject that the numbers shall go out of their main original meaning and shall be applied in their virtual meaning and some others agree that some numbers like seven, seventy, and thousands are indicative of figurative meanings and say about them: the meaning of these num...