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Over decades and under varying names the study of biology-inspired algorithms applied to non-living systems has been the subject of a small and somewhat exotic research community. Only the recent coincidence of a growing inability to master the design, development and operation of increasingly intertwined systems and processes, and an accelerated trend towards a naïve if not romanticizing view ...

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The elastic-electrostatic problem domain contains two charged bodies-one of them is a deformable elastic body with some geometric restraints, while the other is totally restrained and can be modeled as a rigid fixed body. Stresses, strains and deformations of the elastic body under electrostatic force are the quantities of interest. It is a two-way coupling problem, since the deformations is th...

introduction:most of the studies conducted iniranian medical schools are carried out as student's theses on which a lot of time and energy is spent. the purposeof the present study was to determine the characteristics of medical student'stheses at kermanshah university of medical sciences during a five year period(2004-2008).methods:in this descriptive,cross-sectional study a checklist consisti...