7-1 Introduction

Eddy diffusion December 7 , 2000 1 Introduction

Introduction to MPEG-7

How many times have you seen science fiction movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and thought, “Wow, we’re so far away from having any of the fancy gadgets depicted in these movies!” In 2001, Hal, the talking computer intelligently navigates and retrieves information or runs complex operations instigated by spoken input. Or how about using an image-based query, say an image of the motorbike use...

Statistics for dental researchers; part 1: Introduction

Learning statistics is a necessity for dental researchers. Due to daily dental science expansion, dental researchers have to study new papers in recent dental journals to remain up to date. On the other hand, knowing principles of statistics helps better understanding of the articles. Some authors revealed that knowledge of dentists about basic topics of statistics was poor. Therefore, in this ...

.1 Introduction Introduction

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation which has widely been used in both commerce and research. As the importance of XML documents increase, the need to deal with these documents increases as well. This chapter illustrates the methodology that has been used throughout the research, discussing all its parts and how these parts were adopted in th...

Editorial Volume 7, Issue 1

JALDA, therefore, would like to show inclination towards the view that the reality of the world is not a fixed entity standing out there to be measured by our pre-fabricated ‘scientific’ instruments. In line with Haghshenas’ argumentation, not only can theories and instruments shrink to ornamental entities but also they can turn into what Karl Popper calls pseudo-science, knowledge of an ‘ideol...