China’s open embracing of the age artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted considerable academic and media attention. Many argue that China taken advantage its national approach to contest for AI supremacy geopolitical dominance. The relevant analyses assume plans as being Beijing’s coherent top-down geopolitically driven strategy, reflecting Chinese leaders’ global ambitions. This article ar...

Down syndrome is one of the most common causes of mental retardation observed in approximately 1/700 live birth. The use of two or more STR markers related to chromosome 21 facilitates the diagnosis of Down syndrome within about six hours from the collection of the samples. This is the first study has been performed in Iranian population to assess the diagnostic value of using small tandem repe...

In this paper we present and analyze functional programs for a number of priority queue operations. These programs are based upon the top-down skew heaps|a truly elegant data structure|designed by D.D. Sleator and R.E. Tarjan. We show how their potential technique can be used to determine the time complexity of functional programs. This functional approach enables us to derive a potential funct...

In the fast-growing world of translation studies, many students may not receive adequate training at universities. A new multi-facetted approach is therefore needed to be applied in translator educational programs to meet the students’ needs and professional expectations. In order to describe the complex interrelations in translator education systems and propose a research framework that takes ...