In the first few microseconds following the Big Bang, the very hot and dense Universe was thought to be in a state of matter known as the quark gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP is rather different from the normal matter we observe everyday; protons and neutrons are examples of particles in which quarks and gluons are bound. It is said that quarks and gluons are confined in Nature; we do not observe ...

Date of Final Report: March 30, 2005 EPA Agreement Number: CR-82805901 Title: Southern California Supersite Principal Investigators: Constantinos Sioutas, Sc.D., Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; and John R. Froines, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA; Other Investigators:-University of Southern California: Philip M. Fine, PhD., Mich...

My thesis work began as part of project Rescue (http://www.itr-rescue.org) whose goal is to help emergency personnel better respond to natural and man-made disasters. I titled my Rescue subproject “People Forecasting”. Just as a weather forecast helps people make more informed decisions about what to wear, where to go and when to go there; the goal of People Forecasting is that emergency person...

In this paper, we review the premises and practice of the historical method in order to understand how it can be applied to studying information systems (IS) related phenomena. We first examine the philosophical and methodological foundations of the method. For this purpose, we introduce a four-tiered research framework, which consists of (1) the paradigmatic or meta-theoretic assumptions that ...

we live in a world,that is based on these conflicts! this is contrary to the broad meaning of the rituals of ancient persia, even though in zoroastrianism this conflict(spenta mino and ankrah mino) have established the creations .lion and bull dispute, one of the oldest iranian art motifs are used. the authors choose the baisonghor’s kalila wa dimna and the scene at persepolis:killing the bull ...