background: scenes depicting smoking are among the causes of smoking initiation in youth. the present study was the first in iran to collect some primary information regarding the presence of smoking scenes in movies and propagation of tobacco use. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted by polling audience about smoking scenes in persian movies on theaters in 2011. data were collecte...

 The present study is a theoretical attempt to illustrate how Fillmore's Scenes and Frames Semantics (SFS) could be employed as a framework to portray the process of understanding and translating hybrid texts. It first reviews the origin of SFS; then it maps SFS onto Nida’s linguistic model of translation process and the Interpretive Theory of Translation; it examines in the next section, withi...

multiple people detection and tracking is a challenging task in real-world crowded scenes. in this paper, we have presented an online multiple people tracking-by-detection approach with a single camera. we have detected objects with deformable part models and a visual background extractor. in the tracking phase we have used a combination of support vector machine (svm) person-specific classifie...