This paper has studied the game rules, victory or defeat rules, and the key techniques of Dots-and-Boxes, and has designed and realized one 6×6 Dots-and-Boxes based on the representing method of Strings and Coins. By corresponding Dots-and-Boxes chessboard to strings and coins chessboard, the proposed representing method is not only intuitive and convenient in chessboard representation, but als...

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seals can help to identify the unknown aspects a culture. parthian seals and bullaes not only have played an important role in business in the community, but also they are important to identify the art and culture of this period. except a few reports about parthian site and a few works that can be found in collections and museums little has been written with regard to the seals of this period. ...

Project alignment is the process of ensuring that project key stakeholders share a common understanding of project work processes, operational procedure, objectives and plans. The paper focuses on Project Alignment methods and tool for Collaborative Project Management. The research results presented are initially based on large scale distributed engineering projects, but the results can easily ...

We explore consequences of the view that to know a proposition your rational credence in the proposition must exceed a certain threshold. In other words, to know something you must have evidence that makes rational a high credence in it. We relate such a threshold view to Dorr et al.’s (Philosophical Studies 170(2):277–287, 2014) argument against the principle they call FAIR COINS: ‘‘If you kno...

the sassanid rulers’ endeavor to establish an empire led to a substantial change in the previous ruling system and to the foundation of a new order. the founders of the empire enjoyed the legacy of parthian and other preceding rules. they were fully acquainted with the concept of sh?hansh?hi (‘king of kings’) which aroused in parthian and other preceding rules on the one hand, and with zoroastr...

Illegal trade and theft of coins appears to be a major part of the illegal antiques market. Image based recognition of coins could substantially contribute to fight against it. Central component in the permanent identification and traceability of coins is the underlying classification and identification technology. However, currently available algorithms focus basically on the recognition of mo...

arsacid monarchy as the third iranian dynasty played an important role in the ancient era for five centuries. however, due to the inadequacy of written documents from that era, coins are considered precious sources for us to identify the political, historical, cultural, artistic, and religious views and ideas of that time, i.e. arsacid kings. concerning the similarities between the employed sym...