since the government, following the shi’ie doctrine, paid special attention to art and architecture, the school of isfahan found the opportunity to manifest the shi’ite beliefs in architecture. the rare combination of art, shi’ism and illumination gave this era a unique identity, which manifested itself more or less in the isfahan school of art and architecture. shia influence in the political ...

A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occa...

Observing the development of content based image retrieval systems hindered by the lack of eecient image representations, color histogram based indexing techniques have been used quite successfully. Though their performance strongly depends on illumination conditions being controlled, there has been only small eeort to make them invariant to illumination. By introducing color{orientation histog...

In mystical ethics, some virtues have a foundational role in relation to other virtues; that is, other virtues are in some ways dependent on, conditional to, or rooted in them. This is a gradational concept, and therefore one can speak of foundational and more foundational among foundational virtues in mysticism. Honesty is the most foundational virtue in mystical ethics, and other virtues are ...

to investigate the effect of preprocessing techniques including contrast enhancement and illumination correction on retinal imagequality, a comparative study was carried out. we studied and implemented a few illumination correction and contrast enhancementtechniques on color retinal images to find out the best technique for optimum image enhancement. to compare and choose thebest illumination c...