There is but one China in the world. Taiwan is a part of China and the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. This is the basic content of the one-China principle. As one of the world’s few time-honored countries, China has fine traditions and a brilliant civilization that can be traced back to ancient times. Such a civilizatio...

Technological advances in digitization, automatic image analysis and information management are enabling the possibility to analyze, organize and visualize large cultural datasets. As one of the key visual cues, shape feature has been used in various image analysis tasks such as handwritten character recognition [1, 5], sketch analysis [4], etc. We assess a shape descriptor, within the applicat...

THE ANCIENT WORLD passed from the Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages to our modern developed society—a society that is dependent on metals and alloys for its very existence. However, an impressive body of metallurgical knowledge developed in the thousands of years since ancient man first found copper and became curious enough to investigate the behavior of this naturally occurring, rela...

in this research, it has been tried to survy the norooz celebration and its challenges in the islamic civilization, esp. in the caliph periods. since this ancient celebration was full of moral and humanistic concepts, it could immediately find a special harmong with the newly formed islamic culture. this celebration has been presented in the arabic literature in different forms. there fore, in ...