An image manipulation system can be thought of as a domain-specific programming language: by composing and manipulating pictures, the user builds up an expression in such a programming language. Each time the picture is displayed, the expression is evaluated. To gain the required efficiency of display, the expression must be optimized and compiled on the fly. This paper introduces a small langu...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a technique based on mathematical programming for evaluating the efficiency of homogeneous decision making units (dmus). in this technique, inefficient dmus are projected onto the frontier, which was constructed by the best performers. centralized resource allocation (cra) is a method in which all dmus are projected onto the efficient frontier through solving ...

the response of karoun basin in lumped and semi-distributed simulation were compared. also, the flood intensity of the sub-basins and the effects of physical parameters on flood hydrograph have been investigated. results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the characteristics of flood hydrograph in lumped and semi-distributed simulation. also, results showed that the f...

SUMMARY Occurance of Malignant Fihrous Histiocytoma (MFH) of the spermatic cord as a primary source is so rare that since I 967 Just 12 of such cases have heen reported (4,8, 10). MFH is one of the pleomorphic soft tissue Malignant tumors which has been studied for first time by Ozzello and Co workers on 1963. The Tumor ong1nates from primary Mesenchymal cells which have both histocytic & fi...

The exploration of domain knowledge to improve the mining process begins to give its first results. For example, the use of domaindriven constraints allows the focusing of the discovery process on more useful patterns, from the user’s point of view. Semi-supervised clustering is a technique that partitions unlabeled data by making use of domain knowledge, usually expressed as pairwise constrain...

Reverse addressing is an interesting realization of kinship terms in interactive, face to face communication. This descriptive study was proposed to examine the use of family address pronouns in Iran as a function of the classical sociological parameters of age, sex, and social distance. It investigated various aspects of reverse addressing as a vernacular phenomenon. Data were reported from th...

Clinical education is the central part of medical education (1). The importance of learning atmosphere in fostering professional development and role socialization have been well documented (2, 3) The operating room (OR) is a complicated system, which coordinates the person, technology, and patient in a physical environment for achieving optimal outcomes (4). According to Sigurdsson, "OR as a f...

the development of the dominant lactobacilli population during traditional liqvan cheese production was investigated using two different molecular methods of: culture dependent rapd vs culture independent dgge. either one of the techniques showed a high degree of capability to identify and detect of this group of lactic acid bacteria. however, some differences were conspicuous during the detect...

this paper reports multidisciplinary treatment of a dental trauma case to achieve a favorable prognosis. a healthy 14-year-old girl reported avulsion of teeth 11 and 21 which had occurred three months earlier. the initial treatment consisting of replantation with a semi-rigid splint was performed in hospital. at presentation, the patient was still using the semi-rigid splint. the clinical exami...

Developing reliable yet flexible software is a hard problem. Although modeling methods enjoy a lot of advantages, the exclusive use of just one of them, in many cases, may not guarantee the development of reliable and flexible software. Formal modeling methods ensure reliability because they use a rigorous approach to software development. However, lack of knowledge and high cost practically fo...