We determine the quark masses and the chiral condensate in the MS scheme at NNLO from Lattice QCD in the quenched approximation at β = 6.0, β = 6.2 and β = 6.4 using both the Wilson and the tree-level improved SW-Clover fermion action. We extract these quantities using the Vector and the Axial Ward Identities and nonperturbative values of the renormalization constants. We compare the results ob...

This paper presents the results of a pilot study of a project that uses 3D-virtual world technologies, namely Second Life, as a platform for learning simulations through role plays with the intent to improve the development of professional decision making amongst pregraduate teachers undertaking a unit in professional ethics. At present students engage in discussion of ethical issues and case s...

Background and Objectives: Chronic diseases, such as cancer, are among the factors seriously affecting health and marital satisfaction. Regarding this, the present study was conducted with the aim of modeling marital satisfaction among women with breast cancer in Kermanshah province, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 250 females with breast cancer referring t...

the process theology is one of the theological systems which spread during postmodern period. this kind of theology tries to revive the spiritual system. david ray griffin is one of the process theologians and has many systematic researches. according to his idea, spiritual system in pre- modern considers the world in a way that is subjugated to an all-powerful being that unilaterally intervene...

The complex issues of conservation, politics, tourism management and ownership have emerged as critical issues within the World Heritage debate and specifically within heritage tourism research. Within this context, this article focuses on issues of ownership and belonging and argues that there exists a link between the conceptual inconsistencies inherent in the World Heritage idea and the tens...

This article examines how Indian Americans’ religious organizations send not only financial remittances to India, but also social remittances that shape development ideologies. Comparing Indian-American Hindu and Muslim organizations, I find both groups draw from their socioeconomic experiences in India and use their position as elite immigrants in the United States to identify and empower thei...

This paper describes a system designed to disambiguate person names in a set of Web pages. In our approach Web documents are represented as different sets of features or terms of different types (bag of words, URLs, names and numbers). We apply Agglomerative Vector Space clustering that uses the similarity between pairs of analogous feature sets. This system achieved a value of 66% for Fα=0.2 a...