The relationship between the urban and rural world is examined here from the standpoint of the role of local leaders and their retinues of armed men, their impact on the cities and the impact of the cities on them. In periods of state weakness or disintegration, Afghan cities were unable to resist the ‘solidarity groups’ which had coagulated in the countryside under the pressure of constant con...

This paper designs an intra-body network (IBN) of nodes, consisting of small sensors and processing elements (SPEs) placed at different locations within the body and a Personal Digital Assistant placed externally but in close proximity to the body. The sensors measure specific physiological attributes such as electrophysiological and biochemical changes in the myocardium (action potentials of c...

ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m hooshang a‘lam ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m hooshang a‘lam this is an unpublished work by the late dr. hooshang a‘lam on ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m. the work has been written in french and translated into persian by mrs. negar naderi. the scan copy of dr. a’lam’s handwriting is provided at the end of the article. this is an unpublished work by the late...

Autonomous intelligent agent research is a domain situated at the forefront of artificial intelligence. Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improve the likelihood and quality of a offer. In this paper we model and verify a multi-agent argumentation scenario of resource sharing mechanism to en...

BACKGROUND Using a nude rat model of site-specific metastatic bone disease (MBD), we developed a semiquantitative histological score for rapid assessment of lytic lesions in bone. This provides additional information to conventional histological measurement by clarifying the extent and location of metastatic infiltration and the tumor growth pattern. The score can also be used to assess the act...

Having been asked by a few persons to provide a detailed explanation on why the Shia Imamis have a negative stance on 'Shaykhul Islam' Ibn Taimiyyah, we have provided the research carried out by Al-Ghadeer Center. This gives a brief a overview on why this man is viewed as an extremist and why his views were not only conflicting with Islam, but served to damage Islam through the adherence of a f...

ibn sina characterizes sidiqin argument as an argument by means of which the existence of necessary being is proved just on the basis of reflecting on the nature of being. he claims that his versions of the argument satisfy the criterion, really. mulla sadra, however, argues first that ibn sina’s arguments are not, properly speaking, based on reflecting on the nature of being, and second that t...

after introducing three famous grammarians –ibn-e-malek, ibn-e- aqil and al-soyuti– the authors of this article try to compare and contrast the tow well-known explications of ibn–malek`s alfiyya, by ibn-e-aqil and al-soyuti. the authors refer to the similarities and differences between the two explications and give examples from both works. the main purpose of this article is introduce th...

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 780-850 AD The word " algebra " is taken from the title of one of his books.