An Expanding Earth - A reply to two recent denial papers

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

in reply to: minimal requirements in reporting qualitative and quantitative studies: critics on two papers

In Reply to: Minimal Requirements in Reporting Qualitative and Quantitative Studies: Critics on Two Papers

After publication of our study on baloch women’s decision making about childbirth settings (1), I noticed a letter about my published article in your journal (2) and I am very glad that this article has been helpful. Now, I want to mention some points in detail about my study. Zahedan (the capital city of Sistan and Baluchestan Province and the setting of this study) has four equipped hospitals...

Abstracts of Recent Papers

S OF RECENT PAPERS

One-to-Two Digital Earth

The digital Earth framework is a multiresolution 3D model used to visualize location-based data. In this paper, we introduce a new digital Earth framework using a cube as its underlying polyhedron. To create multiresolution, we introduce two types of 1-to-2 refinement. Having a smaller factor of refinement enables us to provide more resolutions and therefore a smoother transition among resoluti...