Based on two case studies from Syria, this article argues that unilateral external intervention in protracted conflicts is not only about military and financial support to one or other warring party. Unilateral actors often get involved the negotiation of local agreements, creating a hybrid form combines roles warfighting, mediation, policing. In context, are able transform their military, logi...

Abstract   Many parameter-tuning algorithms have been proposed for training Fuzzy Wavelet Neural Networks (FWNNs). Absence of appropriate structure, convergence to local optima and low speed in learning algorithms are deficiencies of FWNNs in previous studies. In this paper, a Memetic Algorithm (MA) is introduced to train FWNN for addressing aforementioned learning lacks. Differential Evolution...

research topics dealing with the application of the markal model have been quite common in the last 20+ years. every new paper has added new insight into the potential of using such a model for a variety of purposes. not only global but also local applications have shown both limits and benefits when dealing with manifold energy-environmental-resources optimal management. the aim of this wo...

an alternative in vitro approach to drug screening has been the use of human cell cultures for antiviral agents and microbial cell cultures for the assessment of the carcinogenic potential of selected compounds. a number of protozoan species have been also used as drug screens for anti-protozoal agents. the ciliated protozoan tetrahymena pyriformis species has been widely utilised as a drug scr...

background: one of the challenges of pet/mri combined systems is to derive an attenuation map to correct the pet image. for that, the pseudo-ct image could be used to correct the attenuation. until now, most existing scientific researches construct this pseudo-ct image using the registration techniques. however, these techniques suffer from the local minima of the non-rigid deformation energy f...

generally, plasma proteins owe their binding capacity to the presence of aminoacid units which enter into intra- and intermolecular hydrophobic bonding with a diverse range of endo- and exogenous chemical substances. the intermolecular interactions between the hydrophobic areas of drug molecules and those of plasma proteins play an important role in drug-macromolecular complex formation and sta...

Neighborhoods within the hierarchy of urban structure are one of the smallest socio-physical building blocks of cities. Traditional neighborhoods of Iranian historic cities benefited from strong social relations which were flourished over the years and were manifested in the neighborhoods centers. In the modern era, the new master plans and the complementary local plans have disintegrated th...

variety of iran’s ecological structures has created many cultural landscapes. cultural landscapes, illustrate a combination of man’s persistent life and the art of land modification by means of natural environment and in the form of human settlements in past ages. currently, the human society’s development beside the scientific growth, man’s increasing use of natural resources and negative cons...

In this paper, a new method for gray-scale image and color zooming algorithm based on their local information is offered. In the proposed method, the unknown values of the new pixels on the image are computed by Moving Least Square (MLS) approximation based on both the quadratic spline and Gaussian-type weight functions. The numerical results showed that this method is more preferable to biline...