Special issue on Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of Iran

Special issue on simulated evolution and learning

The field of natural computation is one of the fastest growing areas in computer science and engineering. Although its origins can be traced back to the cybernetics movement of the 1950s, it has undergone a renaissance since the mid-1980s, primarily due to the fundamental work by pioneers (for example, John Holland, Ken De Jong, David Goldberg, John Koza, Lawrence Fogel) in the genetic and evol...

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet

[1] In the Shiquanhe area of far-western Tibet, midCretaceous strata lie unconformable on ophiolitic melange and Jurassic flysch associated with the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone. On the basis of our mapping and geochronologic studies, we suggest that these Cretaceous strata were shortened by >57% over a north south distance of 50 km during Late Cretaceousearly Tertiary time. The Late Cretaceous ...

Special Issue of Iran NanoSafety Congress 2014 (INSC 2014)

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The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies

Mid-Mesozoic kalligrammatid lacewings (Neuroptera) entered the fossil record 165 million years ago (Ma) and disappeared 45 Ma later. Extant papilionoid butterflies (Lepidoptera) probably originated 80-70 Ma, long after kalligrammatids became extinct. Although poor preservation of kalligrammatid fossils previously prevented their detailed morphological and ecological characterization, we examine...