The mysterious smile of the famed portrait ‘The Mona Lisa’ has confused both art historians and researchers for many years. The nature of the model’s enigmatic smile has been explained as the smile of a new, joyous mother, Lisa Gherardini, who had developed Bell’s palsy during her recent pregnancy. Bell palsy which is acute in onset, unilateral, and is considered to be idiopathic is the most co...

In this paper we present MoNa-map, a collaborative mapping system for monitoring temporary mobility barriers. This type of temporary data is known to exhibit a high change rate and, as a consequence, some existing barriers will not be mapped (false negatives) while some barrier which ceased to exist will still appear on the map (false positives). Our approach addresses the problem of balancing ...

Mohsen Amiribesheli Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Pool, Dorset, BH12 5BB UK www.bournemouth.ac.uk [email protected] Mahmood Hosseini Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Pool, Dorset, BH12 5BB UK www.bournemouth.ac.uk [email protected] Hamid Bouchachia Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Pool, Dorset, BH...

* Corresponding author at: Seyed Yasser Saiedi Hosseini, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Baqiayatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9124475022, Fax: +98-2181262072. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.1735143X.710 Copyright c 2011, BRCGL, Published by Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved. A R T I C L E ...

Scientists are beginning to realize more and more that nature is a great source for inspiration in order to develop intelligent systems and algorithms. In the field of Computational Intelligence, especially Evolutionary Computation and Swarm-based systems, the degree of imitation from nature is surprisingly high and we are at the edge of developing and proposing new algorithms and/or systems, w...

Gender inequality and violence against women are critically discussed by scholars around the world. Set in Afghanistan, a country that still adheres to patriarchal culture, Khaled Hosseini, his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, depicts how two main female characters, Meriam Laila, have face domestic their polygamous marriage with Rasheed. This research aims show is portrayed Suns Hosseini challen...