undoubtedly, the disability to express the mystical experiences is what all mystics in east or west have rigid consensus on; it means that mystical facts and high concepts obtained through intuition aren’t possible to be expressed.  jalāl al-dīn muhammad balkhī, mowlavi has clearly explained in his masnavi the different forms of the issue and actually shows the literal difficulties to express m...

the absence of a universally accepted mathematical model for assessment of the effectiveness of drugs in the process of wound healing is one of the problems the health professionals have been faced. in this study, an “empirical” mathematical model is presented to evaluate its reliability from an experimental viewpoint and from a comparative aspect with previous models used to study wound healin...

A method of measuring semantic similarity between words using a knowledge-base constructed automatically from machine-readable dictionaries is proposed. The method takes into consideration the fact that similarity changes depending on situation or context, which we calìview-point'. Evaluation shows the proposed method, although based on a simply structured knowledge-base, is superior to other c...

This paper discusses the notion of, and outlines requirements for Viewpoint-based Environments. These are next-generation CASE environments, which support the speciication of requirements from multiple perspectives or so-called viewpoints. Requirements for such environments are mainly concerned with the detection and management of interference between viewpoints. Viewpoint-based Environments sh...

In the past decades, most object recognition systems were based on passive approaches. But in the last few years a lot of research was done in the field of active object recognition, that is selectively moving a sensor/camera around a considered object in order to acquire as much information about it as possible. In this paper we present an active object recognition approach that solves the pro...

Measurement of pedestrian traffic in public areas (e.g., stations, airports, shopping malls or complex buildings) provides valuable information. For safety management, congestions can be detected to prevent accidents in their early stage by monitoring the pedestrian traffic continuously. Knowing the number of people working in a large building may help to when designing evacuation plans. For ma...

In July 2013, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases will publish the viewpoint of members of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group [1] on the scientific evidence supporting the public-health benefits of preventive chemotherapy [2] in the case of programmes against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), specifically those for the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistos...

Commentaries on Viewpoint: Is left ventricular volume during diastasis the real equilibrium volume, and what is its relationship to diastolic suction? TO THE EDITOR: The Viewpoint by W. Zhang et al. (3) advances our understanding of the age-old question about the meaning of end diastole of the left ventricle as well as its corollary, diastolic suction. The discussion omits several additional me...