nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. these nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. with attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

Although they complain that qualitative proposals are not reviewed fairly when funding agencies use quantitative criteria, qualitative researchers have failed the system by not developing alternative criteria for the evaluation of qualitative proposals. In this article, the author corrects this deficit by presenting criteria to assess the relevance, rigor, and feasibility of qualitative researc...

Programming parallel machines has always been difficult, but the new multicore reality has triggered significant research projects such as those part of the DARPA HPCS challenge that put forth programmer productivity as on par with performance. Since programming models are crucial in supporting the programming of parallel machines, this raises the question of how the PLDI community should evalu...

Qualitative decision tools have been used in AI and CS in various contexts, but their adequacyis still unclear. To examine this question, our work employs the axiomatic approach to characterize the properties of various decision rules. In the past, we presented a constructive representation theorem for the maximin decision criterion, and we characterized conditions under which an agent can be v...