ahmed mahmud is one of the most prominent iranian writers in recent decades. he began his work with writing the short story entitled “sob mishe” and continued with” mool”. he received a position among top rank writers with writing the novel  hamsayeha. many critics have criticized  and studied his works and often dealt with the content of his stories. the paper first addresses form and structur...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...

Huge multilingual news articles are reported and disseminated on the Internet. How to extract the key information and save the reading time is a crucial issue. This paper proposes architecture of multilingual news summarizer, including monolingual and multilingual clustering, similarity measure among meaningful units, and presentation of summarization results. Translation among news stories, id...

Introduction The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased among displaced Syrian families. This study explores the underlying factors contributing to child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the goal of informing community-based strategies to address the issue. Methods In July-A...

The rise of social media sites, such as blogs, wikis, Digg and Flickr among others, underscores a transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit links to and vote on news stories. Like other social media sites, Digg also allows users to designate others as “...

In most cases, structural engineers assume a concrete floor to be a rigid diaphragm. Although this simplification is in most cases acceptable, it should be noted that such an assumption may be distrusted due to certain problems. Concrete structures with staggered shear walls are among those whose analysis should be conducted with special concern for the behavior of their floor diaphragms. Howev...