The Mumford-Shah model has been one of the most powerful models in image segmentation and denoising. The optimization of the multiphase Mumford-Shah energy functional has been performed using level sets methods that optimize the Mumford-Shah energy by evolving the level sets via the gradient descent. These methods are very slow and prone to getting stuck in local optima due to the use of the gr...

A diverse body of research has demonstrated that people update their beliefs to a greater extent when receiving good news compared to bad news. Recently, a paper by Shah et al. claimed that this asymmetry does not exist. Here we carefully examine the experiments and simulations described in Shah et al. and follow their analytic approach on our data sets. After correcting for confounds we identi...

the prevalence of the production of lithographic illustrated versions from the half of 13 century ah caused that painters join to the group of calligraphers and book producers in these workshops and in this way many illustrated versions were produced. in the most of available lithographic illustrated versions from qajar period, if the version has not any missing page from the opening to the end...

historic resources of iranian art history are a few and their precedence also isn’t very impressive. precedence of versions which have paid to the artist’s works and biographies especially painters don’t exceed from five hundred years. whereas this ancient land has works that their precedence dating back thousands of years. ghazi ahmad monshi ghomi is the writer of the book, golestane honar. hi...

this research has an aim to assess agricultural students' satisfaction from their field of study. the statistical population consisted of 1040 students from the university of bu ali sina (800 bachelor and 240 master students) during the years of 2011 to 2013. through stratified random sampling method 240 bachelor and 80 master students were selected. data was collected by means of a researcher ...

muhammad ibn hamed isfahani more popularly known as imad ad-din al-isfahani was a persian historian, scholar, and rhetorician. he left a valuable anthology of arabic poetry to accompany his many historical works. and worked as a man of letters during the zengid and ayyubid period. he was born in isfahan in the year 1125, and studied at the nizamiyya school in baghdad. he graduated into the bure...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was grown in earthen pots containing soil of Balkasar Soil Series (Sandy Loam) in green house at the Department of Soil Science and SWC, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi during Rabi season, 2007. The Crop was treated with two levels of Phosphorus (40 and 80 kg P ha-1 ) in the form of SSP, TSP, NP and DAP. A basal doze of 100 kg N and 60 kg K...