The 2013 Conference

International Conference on Islamic Awakening

Recent developments in the middle-east have been differently explained by different figures and dignitaries from different countries of the world. Calling these developments as "Islamic awakening", "Human awakening", "Arab Spring" and "Purple Revolution" indicates there are different theories in this regard definitely leading to different measures in the political arena. Among supreme leader's ...

Report on First Iranian International Conference on Women’s Health Held June 14-15, 2012 in Shiraz, Iran

بررسی مفهوم جنایت تجاوز ارضی با تأکید بر قطعنامه ی مصوب کنفرانس بازنگری کامپالا

  Despite the formation of International Criminal Court and entering into force of its Statute, There is Some Ambiguity on Certain Fields of its Activities. One the most important ambiguity is about the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the Court on the crime of aggression. This ambiguity is due of the political and legal nature of the crime of aggression and insufficient agreement of the i...

The Effect of Self-Assessment and Conference on EFL Students’ Production of Speech Acts and Politeness Markers: Alternatives on the Horizon?

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...

Developing a new model for availability optimization applied to a series-parallel system (Quality Engineering Conference Paper)

Redundancy technique is known as a way to enhance the reliability and availability of non-reparable systems, but for repairable systems, another factor is getting prominent called as the number of maintenance resources. In this study, availability optimization of series-parallel systems is modelled by using Markovian process by which the number of maintenance resources is located into the obje...

Estimating the Change Point of Binary Profiles with a Linear Trend Disturbance (Quality Engineering Conference Paper)

Identification of a real time of a change in a process, when an out-of-control signal is present is significant. This may reduce costs of defective products as well as the time of exploring and fixing the cause of defects. Another popular topic in the Statistical Process Control (SPC) is profile monitoring, where knowing the distribution of one or more quality characteristics may not be appropr...