the people’s republic of china is an ever rising world power and islamic republic of iran is one of the most powerful countries in the persian gulf region. the ever increasing world needs for oil and the role of iran and persian gulf in satisfying this need has made these relations more significant. the foreign policy of the fifth generation of leadership in people’s republic of china towards t...

The combined effects of magnetic field, Navier slip and convective heating on the entropy generation in a flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid between two infinite horizontal parallel plates under a constant pressure gradient have been examined. Both the lower and upper plates of the channel are subjected to asymmetric convective heat exchange with the ambient fluid. T...

In the highly fragmented truckload transportation industry a substantial fraction of truck movements involves empty trucks, i.e., involves moves that reposition trucks. However, reducing the amount of truck repositioning is difficult because the need for a carrier to reposition its trucks depends on the interactions between the shippers the carrier is serving. Through collaboration, shippers ma...

Autonomous systems suffer from opacity due to the potentially large number of sophisticated interactions among many parties and how these influence the outcomes of the systems. It is very difficult for humans to scrutinise, understand and, ultimately, work with such systems. To address this shortcoming, we developed a demonstrator which uses formal argumentation techniques, coupled with natural...

I analyzed the CP asymmetry of B → Xsl + l − based on model-independent analysis which includes twelve independent four Fermi operators. The CP asymmetry is suppressed in the Standard Model, however, if some new physics make it much larger, the present or the next generation B factories may catch the CP violation in this decay mode. In this paper, we studied the correlation of the asymmetry and...

Software to translate English text into American Sign Language (ASL) animation can improve information accessibility for the majority of deaf adults with limited English literacy. ASL natural language generation (NLG) is a special form of multimodal NLG that uses multiple linguistic output channels. ASL NLG technology has applications for the generation of gesture animation and other communicat...

This paper introduces describes how to integrate standard editing and code generation functionalities offered by most tools supporting the IEC standard 1131-3 with capabilities for modelling and simulating the plant and its interactions with the digital controller. The 1131-3 notations (in particular Functional Block Diagrams) are complemented with differential equations that describe the behav...

In natural language generation (NLG) it can be desirable to preserve some ambiguities rather than try to eliminate them. The question is, which ones are so liable to misinterpretation that they should be removed, and which can be allowed to remain. Our approach to the problem is to notify the user of an NLG system of ambiguities that might be present in generated text, and to advise him/her as ...

Laboratory experiments examining the possibility of direct mind-matter interactions have been reported for over a century. Two classes of such experiments reported most frequently include tossing dice while maintaining the intention for certain die faces to appear, and mental influence of truly random bits generated by electronic random number generators (RNG). Earlier metaanalyses of publicati...

Multi-linked negotiation describes a situation where one agent needs to negotiate with multiple agents about different issues, and the negotiation over one issue influences the negotiations over other issues. Multi-linked issues will become important for the next generation of more complicated Multi-Agent Systems. However, most current negotiation research looks only at single issue negotiation...