[1] The southwestern half of a 500 km long seismic gap in the central Kuril Island arc subduction zone experienced two great earthquakes with extensive preshock and aftershock sequences in late 2006 to early 2007. The nature of seismic coupling in the gap had been uncertain due to the limited historical record of prior large events and the presence of distinctive upper plate, trench and outer r...

SUMMER 2007 133 ■ The Dialogue on Dialogues workshop was organized as a satellite event at the Interspeech 2006 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it was held on September 17, 2006, immediately before the main conference. It was planned and coordinated by Michael McTear (University of Ulster, UK), Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), and James A. Larson (Portland State ...

BELIV’06 took place on May 23 2006, in Venice, hosted by AVI 2006 (Advanced Visual Interface Working Conference). The goal of Beliv’06 was to share experiences and new ideas about evaluation methods for information visualization. Our decision to organize the event was born from an acknowledgment of current methods’ limitations, and some frustration with evaluation processes that are time consum...

the traditional event tree analysis uses a single probability to represent each top event. however, it is unrealistic to evaluate the occurrence of each event by using a crisp value without considering the inherent uncertainty and imprecision a state has. the fuzzy set theory is universally applied to deal with this kind of phenomena. the main purpose of this study is to construct an easy metho...

ashura tragic event and the martyrdom of imam hussein (as) are considered the greatest events in the history of islam after ghadir event because imam (as) held the great epic in ashura day and sacrificed himself and his family, near kin and his companions for the survival of islam. this human event had influence on poets’ souls as they made an attempt to compose lyrics about imam (as). some of ...