Innovation & Prosperity Fund (IPfund) in Iran as a governmental organization aims to develop new technology-based firms (NTBF) by its available resources through financing these firms. The innovative projects which refer to IPfund for financing are in a stage which can receive both fixed rate facilities and partnership in the projects, i.e. profit loss sharing (PLS). Since this fund must protec...

he careless application of technology and poor planning have had deteriorating effects on the economy, agricultural production and social structure in iran. the country, where the exportation of excess agricultural production brought a major portion of her income some 20 years ago, had to import more than 75 per cent of the food needs of her prople in recent years. some national plans or major ...

This paper describes some recent activities on speech technology and corpus development in Thailand. Many speech corpus projects have been launched this year. The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) recently provides a grant for two cooperative speech corpus projects to interested universities. The first project aims at developing a Thai speech corpus for the research o...