pazhuhesh-nāme-ye alavi (imam ali,s studies) biannual journal volume 3, number 2, autumn & winter 2012-2013 concessionaire: institute for humanities and cultural studies (ihcs) director in charge: hamidreza ayatollahy editor-in-chief: alireza mirzamohammad assistant editor-in-chief: seyed fakhrodin moayedi executive manager: zahra sadeghi   editorial board bahram akhavan kazemi associate profes...

Rural areas have been constrained by a lack of access to health care due to the inherent difficulties in attracting health professionals to them. Telemedicine, which uses communication technology to deliver medical services over distance, is an economical and effective way to address this problem. Immersive Telepresence is a specific application of Telemedicine which can be used to deliver medi...

We develop models of stochastic discount factors in international economies that produce stochastic risk premiums and stochastic skewness in currency options. We estimate the models using time-series returns and option prices on three currency pairs that form a triangular relation. Estimation shows that the average risk premium in Japan is larger than that in the US or the UK, the global risk p...

Common water-plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica L.), arrowhead (Sagitaria trifolia L.) and Echinochloa spp. (L.) are among the most important damaging weeds of rice paddies. In this research, Curvularia lunata (Waker) Boedijn was isolated from the said weeds. Then, its effect in different growth stages, i.e. seed, 2-3 leaf stage (seedling) and also in greenhouse conditions was examined in Alism...

OBJECTIVES Mesenchymal stem cells have the ability to differentiate into various cell types, and thus have emerged as promising alternatives to chondrocytes in cell-based cartilage repair methods. The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells combined with platelet rich fibrin on osteochondral defect repair and articular cartilage...

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In this paper, we study end-to-end energy efficiency of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing relay-based system under power constraints for the base station and relay node with system circuit power considerations. Using a two-phase amplify-and-forward relaying protocol, we assume that relay has a fixed power constraint and the source power can vary in transmission power interval where ...

First-order knowledge compilation techniques have proven efficient for lifted inference. They compile a relational probability model into a target circuit on which many inference queries can be answered efficiently. Early methods used data structures as their target circuit. In our KR-2016 paper, we showed that compiling to a low-level program instead of a data structure offers orders of magnit...