uring the reign of the fourth Qajar king, Naser-ad-Din Shah (who reigned from 1848–1896), the Chief Minister, Amir Kabir, was involved in modernization of Iran. He founded the first modern higher educational institute in Iran the so called “Dar al-Fonun” (House of Techniques) in 1851. One of the subjects taught there was medicine; now, it is considered a major step in promulgation of modern med...

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This paper presents the hybrid algorithm of global optimization of dynamic learning rate for multilayer feedforward neural networks (MLFNN). The effect of inexact line search on conjugacy was studied and a generalized conjugate gradient method based on this effect was proposed and shown to have global convergence for error backpagation of MLFNN. The descent property and global convergence was g...

This paper proposes a line search technique to satisfy a relaxed form of the strong Wolfe conditions in order to guarantee the descent condition at each iteration of the Polak-Ribière-Polyak conjugate gradient algorithm. It is proved that this line search algorithm preserves the usual convergence properties of any descent algorithm. In particular, it is shown that the Zoutendijk condition holds...

The technology so far applied clinically has been based directly on traditional human embryo cryopreservation protocols, and has produced relatively few offspring. Fortunately to date, no abnormalities have been reported from these pregnancies, regardless of the persistent concerns that freezing and thawing of mature oocytes may disrupt the meiotic spindle and thus increase the potential for an...

The Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) working group is considering protocols for signaling information about a data flow along its path in the network. The NSIS suite of protocols is envisioned to support various signaling applications that need to install and/or manipulate such state in the network. Based on existing work on signaling requirements, this document proposes an architectural framewor...