1. introduction mountain regions are increasingly endangered by a variety of disaster, including avalanche, debris flows, and rock slide. some characteristics such as elevation, angle of slope, vegetation and climatic elements could affect the avalanche event. indeed, avalanche is the second factor in soil erosion that causes demolition; therefore, it threatens the food safety. iran has two mai...

Since 1995 the school education sector has been a dominant focus for education for sustainabi li ty (EfS) in Austra lia (Tilbury, Coleman, & Garlick, 2005, p. 1). The commencement of the Austra lian Susta inable Schools In it iative (AuSSI) in 2003, with its whole school approach, dramatically increased this focus (Department of Education and Training, 2005b). The pilot for the Western Australi...

Introduction. The subcortical region underneath Wernicke's area (WA) is a critical crossing of the eloquent language pathways involved in all semantic, phonological, syntactic, and working memory elaboration. We report the resection of a CA located underneath the dominant WA discussing the functional and anatomical evidence provided by fMRI, dissections with Klingler's technique, and intraopera...

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Confronted with the chaotic characteristics of landslide displacement and the deficiencies of traditional time series prediction model, the wavelet analysis -support vector machine model (WA-SVM) based on chaotic time series for landslide displacement prediction is proposed. On the basis of the analysis of chaotic characteristics, landslide displacement is decomposed in to components with diffe...

A novel method for classification of abnormality in anatomical tree structures is presented. A tree is classified based on direct comparisons with other trees in a dissimilarity-based classification scheme. The pair-wise dissimilarity measure between two trees is based on a linear assignment between the branch feature vectors representing those trees. Hereby, localized information in the branch...

Values are viewed as partly based on needs, but little research has been devoted to testing this relationship. The need to attain or avoid cognitive closure may be an important cognitive-motivational factor underlying the endorsement and pursuit of particular values. The present research provided an empirical test of the relations between individual differences in the need for cognitive closure...