parvin etesami is a poet who artistically used persian poetry in order to criticize the status quo of the society and express its deficiencies. her divan (collection of poems), which is her only heritage for us, is teeming with debates, allegories, sarcasms with social themes. this article deals with sociological investigation of the social and class discrimination from her point of view. in ad...

Prevailing immunological dogma dictates self-nonself discrimination, meaning to respond or not, and effector class regulation, meaning choosing the most effective response, are two separate decisions the immune system makes when faced with a new antigen. Representing a cardinal departure from the past, our model instead predicts both self-nonself discrimination and effector class regulation are...

This paper is based on the author’s thesis, “Pattern recognition based on naive canonical correlations in high dimension low sample size”. This paper is concerned with discriminant analysis for multi-class problems in a High Dimension Low Sample Size (hdlss) context. The proposed discrimination method is based on canonical correlations between the predictors and response vector of class label. ...

Hyperspectral sensors provide a large number of spectral bands. This massive and complex data structure of hyperspectral images presents a challenge to traditional data processing techniques. Therefore, reducing the dimensionality of hyperspectral images without losing important information is a very important issue for the remote sensing community. We propose to use overlap-based feature weigh...

Human newborns discriminate languages from different rhythmic classes, fail to discriminate languages from the same rhythmic class, and fail to discriminate languages when the utterances are played backwards. Recent evidence showing that cotton-top tamarins discriminate Dutch from Japanese, but not when utterances are played backwards, is compatible with the hypothesis that rhythm discriminatio...

Human participant performances often show evidence of learning untrained relations when conditional discrimination training between physically dissimilar stimuli is conducted. These emergent relations document equivalence class formation. The current study investigated whether class-specific consequences (i.e. the specific reinforcers used for each potential class during training) also join the...

Six experiments using the headturn preference procedure investigated 5-month-old American infants’ ability to discriminate languages. The impetus for the present study was a report that newborns discriminate languages across, but not within, rhythmic classes (Nazzi et al., 1998). Two experiments verified that at 5 months, infants still discriminate pairs of languages from different rhythmic cla...