Abdolrazagh Hashemi-Shahraki, Parvin Heidarieh, Samira Azarpira, Hasan Shojaei, Mohammad Hashemzadeh and Enrico Tortoli Author affiliation: Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran (A. Hashemi-Shahraki, S. Azarpira, M. Hashemzadeh); Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran (P. Heidarieh); Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran (H. Shojaei); and San Raffaele Scientific In...

This research addresses the design and development of an incremental software architecture recovery and evaluation environment using data mining techniques. The environment is interactive and provides: pattern-based architectural recovery using a query language and approximate graph pattern matching; optimization clustering; partitioning; and view-based architectural design evaluation. These te...

background: reversal of tubal ligation is requested by some women for various reasons. the present study aims to determine the rate of pregnancy after tubal ligation reversal. case: in these case series, we reported fifteen women who requested tuboplasty after tubal ligation. in these cases reversal of tubal ligation was done in 15 women. pregnancy occurred in 4 women (26.6%). two term pregnanc...

today, all over the word, we see the scientists, thinkers, politicians, consumers, producers and ecologists (who support the environment) pretest against the method of agriculture, because trying to increase the crop outcome to its maximum rate for hectare through the irregular use of chemical input in industrial agriculture lead to a disaster in human life which will endanger the whole life on...

During human walking, precise coordination between the two legs is required in order to react promptly to any sudden hazard that could threaten stability. The networks involved in this coordination are not yet completely known, but a direct spinal connection between soleus (SOL) muscles has recently been revealed. For this response to be functional, as previously suggested, we hypothesize that ...

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been criticized considerably for possible rank reversal phenomenon caused by the addition or deletion of an alternative. While in many cases this is a perfectly valid phenomenon, there are also many cases where ranks should be preserved. Our findings indicate that using the geometric mean reduces the variance in ratings substantially; hence, yielding lower i...

Introduction The Islamic Republic of Iran (Figure 1) has an area of 1,648,000 km 2 and a population of 65 million people (1995 estimate). The country has arid and semiarid climates and the occurrence of rainfall is unreliable, with a coefficient of variation as high as 70%. The average annual precipitation over the country is around 250 mm. Two mountain ridges, the Alborz and Zagros (Figure 1),...

During the Asian financial crises, interest rates were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply. We describe an environment in which this is the optimal monetary policy. ∗Northwestern University and Tilburg University. †Northwestern University, and NBER. ‡International Monetary Fund. §Braggion thanks the European Central Bank-Research Department for its hospitality. Christiano is grateful f...