Several ways used to rank countries with respect to medals won during Olympic Games are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the unofficial rank used by the Olympic Committee is the only rank that does not allow one to use a numerical counter for ranking – this rank uses the lexicographic ordering to rank countries: one gold medal is more precious than any number of silver medals and one ...

precise recogni tion of concept of nasb and character istics of that perver ted ideological current as well as pres entation of an exact, fair definition of it is of great import ance, especially when on e considers that shiite jurists have treated that current as infidelity. th e present essay analy zes and juristically criticizes differ ent opinions on the conc ept of nasb ranging from akhbar...

Examining the properties of representation spaces for documents or words in IR (typically R with n large) brings precious insights to help the retrieval process. Recently, several authors have studied the real dimensionality of the datasets, called intrinsic dimensionality, in specific parts of these spaces (Houle et al., 2012a). In this paper, we propose to revisit this notion through a coeffi...

this paper reviews the elegy themes of imam hussein (as) in the epic of ‘eid ghadir’ composed by christian poet boolos salama, and begins with the introduction of the ashura literature and especially poetry surrounding imam hussein. this article talks about the laborious life of poet and his compilations especially his great islamic epic, which is famous in the field of literature, and also tal...