literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situ...

In this paper we introduce a new spatio-temporal methodology for biosurveillance entitled the Repeated Two-sample Rank (RTR) procedure. It is designed to sequentially incorporate information from individual observations and thus can operate on data in real-time as it arrives into an automated biosurveillance system. In addition, upon a signal of a possible outbreak, the methodology suggests a w...

The sense of touch and physical interaction are among the fundamental aspects that human being needs to understand the world and cause changes to it. For games, haptic systems can offer a concept of interaction in a sophisticated way, increasing the level of realism and offering greater immersion in the virtual environment. This paper presents a study, a planning and development of an architect...

In the context of musical acoustics, physical models of musical instruments have to be more and more sophisticated. For string models, realism is obtained by taking into account tension, flexion, shear, rotation and coupling phenomena but also nonlinear effects due to large displacements. The sound synthesis modal method is extended to the nonlinear case using Volterra series. The inverse probl...

The argument from disagreement is among the most important that has been directed against moral realism.1 Yet, in recent years it has been widely rejected – so widely, in fact, that even those who are sympathetic with irrealism have often found it unconvincing. One reason for this has to do with the fact that newer, more sophisticated versions of moral realism have recently emerged. Some of the...