Continuously changing nature of technological environment has been enforcing to revise the process of information security risk analysis accordingly. A number of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis methods have been proposed by researchers and vendors. The purpose of these methods is to analyze today's information security risks properly. Some of these methods are supported by a software...

This paper describes our retrieval system participated in the Patent Retrieval Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop. The main task was an associative patent retrieval task, in which a patent application including a target claim is used to search documents that can invalidate the demand in the claim. Our system can be characterized by the structure analysis for both target claim and entire applicat...

Construction Projects are being implemented under different contract systems in the Midwest. Negotiated design-build has been a popular contract system in recent years. It provides various advantages through entailing the contractor to be responsible for the whole project. However, design-build turns out to be risky system for both owners and contractors unless the risks are identified, quantif...

registration institution guarantees economic and legal security. human societies always noted this point and created several registration systems. land title registration should be simple, reliable…and well suited to the society it serves. with regard to social conditions, every society fallows from one of these systems. iranian registration system has enough capacity to establish legal securit...

the musical symbol is one way of expression among many other ways. it doesn`t directly correspond with meaning or reality. rather, it provides images that are representative of the original. however, symbols goes beyond this and provide deep significant symbolic meanings and visions. mystical poetry has a complex intellectual structure, particularly in arabic and persian literature. hence, musi...

Having alcohol poisoning can be very scary, but it's great that you're reaching out for information to ensure that you avoid similar experiences in the future. Since you didn't describe exactly what happened, it's hard to determine if you had alcohol poisoning or not. Regardless, understanding the risks involved with over-consumption and the steps you can take to minimize risk are skills everyo...

With the increase of customer base over internet, a large community of the user adopts p2p network because of its potential characteristics of file sharing. From the past decade there has been an extensive research work towards ensuring better security systems over p2p network. However, majority of the security techniques are either highly sophisticated or doesn't yield full fledge securit...

Chilota sheep is a typical animal population from Chiloé Archipelago in the south of Chile. First sheep were introduced in Chiloé in 1568 with Spanish conquerors. In 2010 Chilota sheep was recognized as the first original breed of Chile. Blood samples were obtained from 40 Chilota individuals from 40 flocks spread throughout Chiloé Archipelago. A maximum of one individual per flock were sampled...

In this paper, a new PCA based method for video compression is introduced. This method extracts the features of video frames and process them adaptively based on required accuracy. This idea improves the quality of compression effectively. In this paper, we focused on the fact that video is a composition of sequential and correlated frames, so we can apply the PCA to these high correlated frame...

The importance of compositionality in program construction is being accepted quite well. With this respect, the relational programming has clear advantages over the functional programming. Unfortunately, there is no general technique of relational programming efficient enough to compete with the existing functional programming techniques. Here we discuss structural synthesis of programs a metho...