This paper discusses the geometric correction of measured historical maps and the evaluation of accuracy with case studies on Silk Road maps, “Innermost Asia” and “Serindia,” made by Aurel Stein about 100 years ago, and Beijing maps, “Complete map of Peking, Qianlong period,” made about 250 years ago. The former case study deals with maps that cover thousand kilometers, and we delivered the err...

In this paper we present applications of different machine learning algorithms in aquaculture. Machine learning algorithms learn models from historical data. In aquaculture historical data are obtained from farm practices, yields, and environmental data sources. Associations between these different variables can be obtained by applying machine learning algorithms to historical data. In this pap...

in its course of evolution, the sassanian rule accepted a change in temporal exigencies, condition and manner of governance of each ruler where more attention was paid to the institutional establishment, grades/ranking, titles, symbols and administrative hierarchy. in a way, the organizational manner, to a larger extent, could engulf the period into a curtain of ambiguity. one of those ranks wa...

The Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive (CRBEHA) project received an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) leadership grant in September 2001. The grant was titled: Engaging the Public with Digital Primary Sources: A Tri-State Online History Database and Learning Center. The institutions involved in the project were Washington State University Vancouver, Washington State Univ...

Web-accessible life sciences sources are characterized by a complex graph of overlapping sources, and multiple alternate links between sources. A (navigational) query may be answered by traversing multiple alternate paths between a start source and a target source. Each of these paths may have dissimilar benefit, e.g., the cardinality of result objects that are reached in the target source. Pat...

There is increasing interest in the potential health benefits of dietary flavonoids. Fruits and vegetables, tea, and cocoa are rich natural sources of flavonoids. Epidemiological studies have indicated that consumption of these foods is likely to be associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, but the etiology of this benefit is not yet clearly defined. Furthermore, in some acute i...

the information obtained from written sources, archaeological limited surface excavations and surveys as well as environmental studies in sassanid towns have made their spatial characteristics clear to some extent and become effective in determination of functional and visual identity of these cities. nevertheless, there are still a lot of cities from this period which their names listed in wri...

the factors that have been influential in the damaging and destroying the iranian historical monuments can be divided into two categories: first, the natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, famines, and droughts; and second, human behavior that on some occasions had intentionally or unintentionally caused some damages to the historical monuments. the flawed policies of the rulers that ha...

We consider high energy γ-ray radiation from the radio pulsars associated with some unidentified EGRET γ-ray sources. Calculated efficiencies for the conversion of spin-down power to γ-rays and the energy spectra of the high energy γ-rays from these possible γ-ray pulsars in outer gap models are compared with observed results. Of these possible γ-ray pulsars, our results indicate that (i) PSR B...

This paper reports on the use of historical methods in a recent information systems doctoral research project. The paper concentrates on the use of the methodology rather than the findings themselves. The use of historical methods is rare in information systems and this paper outlines the valuable insights it can bring for researchers. Historical methods involve the collection of both primary a...