ISIS and the Caliphate

The ISIS Twitter Census Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter

The Isis Transverse Emittance Scanners and Software

An overview of the hardware and software used to study the transverse emittance on the ISIS Pulsed Spallation Neutron Source at RAL is given. Vertical and horizontal slit-slit emittance scanners are used for high resolution measurements. Data acquisition and analysis is performed using in-house written C# code. Alternatively, a pepperpot head can be used to record both the emittance and beam pr...

The Combination of NIMROD and ISiS

NIMROD is a nearly 4pi detector system that consists of a 4pi neutron ball, 96 Ionization Chamber-Si-CsI modules in the forward 8 rings from 3.6 degree to 47 four rings with 46 CsI, Ionization Chamber and several Si detectors covering backward angles theta from 47 degrees to 170 degrees, four rings with 46 CsI, Ionization Chamber and several Si detectors covering backward angles theta from 47 d...

The ISIS Facilities Ontology and OntoMaintainer

This paper presents an ISIS facilities ontology based on keywords in the ISIS Metadata catalog (ICAT) and OntoMaintainer, a web application to facilitate the collaborative development of ontologies. The ISIS facilities ontology aims to organize and make keywords in the ISIS Metadata Catalogue more explicit which will improve the search and navigation of data by category. The Ontology Maintainer...

The Urbanization Movement in the First Centuries of Islamic Caliphate

When Muslim Nomad Arabs were scattered around as a religious jihad from Arabian Peninsula at the beginning of the seventh century AD, they had nothing of their own except their new religion; they did not know much about architectural techniques, their cities were just piles of primary mud cottages and their villages were just squads of tents or straw huts. Their only place of worship was Kaaba ...