Six morphometric traits (height at withers, body length, chest girth, ear length, tail length and body weight) were analyzed to characterize from a breed point of view 1981 sheep from four ovine breeds (Bellary, Kenguri, Hassan and Mandya) of southern peninsular zone of India. Discriminant Function Analysis was used to distinguish between four breeds by morphometric traits. The population varia...

Identi¢cationofTannerella forsythia antigensspeci¢callyexpressed in patientswith periodontal disease Ji Yeon Yoo, Hyeong Chan Kim, Weidong Zhu, Seon-Mi Kim, Mojgan Sabet, Martin Handfield, Jeffrey Hillman, Ann Progulske-Fox & Seok-Woo Lee Division of Periodontics, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, NY, USA; Currently, Division of Infectious Disease, UCLA Harbor Medical Center, Tor...

Autonomous intelligent agent research is a domain situated at the forefront of artificial intelligence. Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improve the likelihood and quality of a offer. In this paper we model and verify a multi-agent argumentation scenario of resource sharing mechanism to en...

This paper studies the analysis of reductio ad absurdum by Ibn Sı̄nā (known to the Latin West as Avicenna), who was born in 980 in a village near the Bactrian town of Balkh on the Silk Road, and died in 1037 after a career spent moving around within the present boundaries of Iran. References to Ibn Sı̄nā’s writings are to his Arabic texts listed in the bibliography, and are given in the format pa...

One of the most intriguing elements of Mohamed Soueid's film My Heart Beats Only For Her (2008) is the ambiguous narrative that lies somewhere between fiction and documentary. In this film a man named Hassan tries to retrace the steps of his father Hatem Hatem, a Lebanese revolutionary in the 1970s, on a journey from Beirut to Hanoi to Dubai. Soueid combines and interrelates these two seemingly...

Having been asked by a few persons to provide a detailed explanation on why the Shia Imamis have a negative stance on 'Shaykhul Islam' Ibn Taimiyyah, we have provided the research carried out by Al-Ghadeer Center. This gives a brief a overview on why this man is viewed as an extremist and why his views were not only conflicting with Islam, but served to damage Islam through the adherence of a f...

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 780-850 AD The word " algebra " is taken from the title of one of his books.