Abstract This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed contemporary Europe as well Iran, and how resulting image—half national hero, half ruthless warlord—has resonated until today. In an age short on ‘great’ leaders, spoke to imagination like no other ruler, Western or Asian. Nader's subsequent record can be read a palimpsest, layered series of...

Abstract Several concepts and types of procedures for assessing novelty related exist in the literature. Among them, two approaches originally proposed by Shah colleagues are often considered scholars. These metrics rely on well-defined a specific concept novelty; however, more than 20 years after first publication, it is still not clear whether to what extent these actually used, why they used...

163904-4747-IJECS-IJENS © August 2016 IJENS I J E N S Abstract— The intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm was introduced in 2007 by Hamed Shah Hosseini, and has been successfully implemented to solve many types of optimization problems, especially traveling salesman problem (TSP). The algorithm works by imitating the behavior of the natural river water drops. Principally, the algorithm finds ...

Abstract. This paper studies the gradient flow of a regularized Mumford-Shah functional proposed by Ambrosio and Tortorelli (1990, 1992) for image segmentation, and adopted by Esedoglu and Shen (2002) for image inpainting. It is shown that the gradient flow with L2×L∞ initial data possesses a global weak solution, and it has a unique global in time strong solution, which has at most finite numb...

Action Research using Case Study Methodology for Implementation of Process Improvement Initiatives in Food SMEs Anita Kumar, Seamus O’Reilly ([email protected]) & Fred Adam, University College Cork, Ireland Abstract Purpose: In the last decade, operations management researchers have been encouraged to consider action research (AR) case methodology as a suitable research approach to investigate u...

A climate dependent model is proposed to simulate the population of Aedes aegypti mosquito. In developing the model, average temperature of Shah Alam, Malaysia was used to determine the development rate of each stage of the life cycle of mosquito. Rainfall dependent function was proposed to simulate the hatching rate of the eggs under several assumptions. The proposed transition matrix was obta...

As recently discussed by Bar, Kiryati, and Sochen in [3], the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximation of the Mumford-Shah functional defines an extended line process regularization where the regularizer has an additional constraint introduced by the term ρ|∇v|. This term mildly forces some spatial organization by demanding that the edges are smooth. However, it does not force spatial coherence such a...

Novel Approach for Fingerprint Recognition Using Sparse Representation Rohit Thanki PhD Research Scholar, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, C U Shah University, Wadhwan City Email: [email protected] Komal Borisagar Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot Email: [email protected] ------------------------------...

Abstract. Inspired by the recent work of Bertalmio et al. on digital inpaintings [SIGGRAPH 2000], we develop general mathematical models for local inpaintings of nontexture images. On smooth regions, inpaintings are connected to the harmonic and biharmonic extensions, and inpainting orders are analyzed. For inpaintings involving the recovery of edges, we study a variational model that is closel...