this paper is an attempt to numerical modeling and experimental study of air flow in the yazdi wind-towers. wind towers has been known as one of the most effective climatic elements in iranian traditional architecture. this paper is an attempt to evaluating yazdi wind-tower to discussion the two main questions: 1. what is the role of orientation of wind-towers span, regarding to climate and hei...

BACKGROUND Fluid intake is an essential factor in having a normal homeostasis. However, proper amount of daily water intake in a healthy individual is controversial. There is a prevalent thought that we all have to drink eight glasses of water daily, however, it lacks enough supportive evidence at least for healthy individuals. Here, we try to clarify this topic from the perspective of Avicenna...

This paper discusses a probabilistic on-line handwriting recognition scheme, based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM's), and its implementation for recognizing handwritten words captured from a tablet. Statistical methods, such as HMM's have been used successfully for speech recognition. These methods have recently been applied to the problem of handwriting recognition as well. This paper, discusses...

Plagiarism detection is defined as automatic identification of reused text materials. General availability of the internet and easy access to textual information enhances the need for automated plagiarism detection. In this regard, different algorithms have been proposed to perform the task of plagiarism detection in text documents. Due to drawbacks and inefficiency of traditional methods and l...

Persian and Turkish exhibit a number of striking similarities, including the following: (a) many verbal concepts are expressed by complex predicates (CPr) consisting of a non-verbal element (NVE) and a light verb (LV) (Folli et al. 2005, Megerdoomian 2002, Kornfilt 2003), (b) both languages exhibit scrambling, (c) they both mark direct objects for specificity (Enç1991, Karimi 2005), and (d) foc...

islamic architecture has been a great influence on different parts of the world, even so there are some similar factors, but the aspect of culture will make the polarization between them. upon the vast spread that muslims had in the 7th century (a.d.) islamic culture and belief moved in different continents from the fareast parts of asia to the west of the mediterranean. at the beginning islam ...