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the present article has adopted a critical discourse perspective to study ahmad-e jām’s ons al-tāʾebīn. ahmad-e jām (b. 1049 ad in nāmaq, near toršīz, khorasan; d. 1141ad) was one of the mystics of khorasan, iran. traces of cultural transition can be found in his works and ons al-tāʾebīn is his masterpiece. the book mainly criticizes the official mysticism of the writer’s time. the cult which h...

Religious secularity and Islam have not often been considered in the West as comfortable bedfellows, yet Islamic revolution Iran 1979 questioned assumptions about appropriateness of separate spheres for religion politics. However, within a decade revolution, theoretical intellectual shifts were visible Iranian seminaries, alternative views doctrine velāyat-e faqih (guardianship jurists) which t...

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BACKGROUND The records of genus Bubopsis McLachlan, 1898 with species Bubopsis tancrei Weele, 1908 and the genus Nousera Navás, 1923 with species Nousera gibba Navás, 1923 have not been published in China. NEW INFORMATION The genus Bubopsis McLachlan, 1898 with species Bubopsis tancrei Weele, 1908 and the genus Nousera Navás, 1923 with species Nousera gibba Navás, 1923 are recorded for the fi...

Centers of Excellence Center for Advanced Communications (CAC) Dr. Moeness Amin, Director and ECE Professor Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, Research Professor and Director, Radar Imaging Lab Dr. Robert Caverly, ECE Professor Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar, ECE Professor; Director, Antenna Research Laboratory Dr. Bijan G. Mobasseri, ECE Chair and Professor Dr. Sridhar Santhanam, ME Professor Dr. Rosalind Wynne, ECE Associ...

Features selection is an essential step for successful data classification, since it reduces the data dimensionality by removing redundant features. Consequently, that minimizes the classification complexity and time in addition to maximizing its accuracy. In this article, a comparative study considering six features selection heuristics is conducted in order to select the best relevant feature...

Improving industrial product reliability, maintainability and, thus, availability is a challenging task for many industrial companies. In industry, there is a growing need to process data in real time, since the generated data volume exceeds the available storage capacity. This Paper consists of a review of data stream mining and data stream management systems aimed at improving product availab...