China’s military planners like to claim that in overall terms, the PLA is technologically inferior if compared with its potential adversaries. Such inferiority will continue in the foreseeable future, even though the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has made some progress in modernizing its weaponry in recent years. On the other hand, the strategic principles of the PLA have undergone a major shi...

A rapid response to a threatening face in a crowd is important to successfully interact in social environments. Visual search tasks have been employed to determine whether there is a processing advantage for detecting an angry face in a crowd, compared to a happy face. The empirical findings supporting the ‘‘anger superiority effect’’ (ASE), however, have been criticized on the basis of possibl...

In our physically inspired in-tree (IT) based clustering algorithm and the series after it, there is only one free parameter involved in computing the potential value of each point. In this work, based on the Delaunay Triangulation or its dual Voronoi tessellation, we propose a nonparametric process to compute potential values by the local information. This computation, though nonparametric, is...

in order to select and release of bastan a new cultivar of foxtail millet, after preliminary selections in small millet germplasm a research was carried during 1997-2003 in karaj, golestan and dezful. during these years production potential of 10 foxtail millet genotypes was determined in a randomized complete block design for 3 years. the different characteristics include, leaf size, stem diam...

this research investigates the quality of superiority of men in the jurisprudence of shi’ah and tries to answer to this question whether the quality of superiority is executive or a kind of guardianship. to answer to this question, the first two verses of “superiors (qavvamun)” and “rank (darajeh)” are investigated. then the narrations stating the relationship between husband and wife and the r...

The main purpose of this research is to examine the importance local tours in order gain competitive advantage medical tourism sector. Medical a sector that involves patients who have difficult access health services or face high costs, traveling across international borders for receiving care. tourists generally prefer destinations offer quality services, affordable prices, specialist doctors ...