To avoid the false results of deterministic identification methods induced by uncertainties, a fuzzy nearness-based method is proposed for the damage identification of bridge. An improved index based on ratios of modal shape components is used as identification measurements. The knowledge base for damage identification is established through corresponding relationship between fuzzified measurem...

Islamic art is unique because its form and function permeate both distance and time. Since the birth of Islam, Muslim artists around the world have created pieces of art that share an uncanny resemblance to pieces created by other Muslim artists through common themes, appearances, and applications. These similarities include calligraphic elements, exaggerated depictions of plants and animals, a...

The Qur’an does not mention a lot of alcohol, but pedagogically it explains its gradual ban in a convenient way by pointing out that alcohol is not used in a “good” benefit. Say, “My Lord has only forbidden immoralities what is apparent of them and what is concealed and sin, and oppression without right, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not sent down authority, and that y...

This article gives a brief overview of near sets. The proposed approach in introducing near sets is to consider a set theory-based form of nearness (proximity) called discrete proximity. There are two basic types of near sets, namely, spatially near sets and descriptively near sets. By endowing a nonempty set with some form of a nearness (proximity) relation, we obtain a structured set called a...

This paper introduces two new matrix nearness problems that are intended to generalize the distance to instability and the distance to stability. They are named the distance to delocalization and the distance to localization due to their applicability in analyzing the robustness of eigenvalues with respect to arbitrary localization sets (domains) in the complex plane. For the open left-half pla...

Metric nearness refers to the problem of optimally restoring metric properties to distance measurements that happen to be non-metric due to measurement errors or otherwise. Metric data can be important in various settings, for example in clustering, classification, metric-based indexing, query processing and graph theoretic approximation algorithms. This paper formulates and solves the metric n...

This article discusses Arabic expressions referring to God, such as inshallah, mashallah, and alhamdulillah in the 2014 season of Arab version talent show The Voice. It question what extent these are used by various actors show, particular its four jury members three presenters, it tries explain why they use them purpose. analysis is set against background relationship between ‘language’ (in th...