Hope beyond certainty is a significant element in contemporary theological discourse after the death of God. This relation between hope and uncertainty not new. In nineteenth century, growing number intellectuals started to call themselves agnostic, but did always end up scepticism nihilism. On contrary, new ways search for meaning fulfilment life traditional answers institutional religions (i....

purpose: the purpose of this research is analysis links of these indicators. method: this research is a scientometrics study and it includs 37 countries that have more than 100 h-index in 1996 until 2010 in scimago. these countries were studied in 3 difference clusters. the data gathered from wos, scimago, unesco, oecd and world bank databases. excel and spss are used to analyze the data. also,...

Evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. A valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. We aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ) in Iran. The forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

This paper describes an airborne deployment of the Viper sniper detection and counterfire system and several improvements that were incorporated after a review of comments from users of the fielded systems. The Viper sensor was flown aboard a T-34 aircraft and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Sparrow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Infrared (IR) and visible video sequences were recorded for p...

Abstract This paper analyzes the political dimension embedded in work of American sociologist Donald Pierson Brazil. A former student Robert Park at University Chicago, played a major role institutionalization social sciences Brazil from 1930s through 1950s. While Pierson’s intellectual ambitions were centered on an academic agenda and he defended strict division between science politics, we ar...

BACKGROUND Lumbar disc herniation and stenosis that results in compression of a nerve root lateral to the foramen is defined as extraforaminal. In recent years the recognition of such pathology has increased with technology and greater awareness. Various approaches and techniques have been developed for extraforaminal decompression in the lumbar region. The purpose of this study was two fold: 1...

Infrared ocean image simulation has been widely used in water-pollution prevention, meteorological observation and melting-ice monitoring. However, actual remote sensing scenes, the images provided by conventional algorithms are lacking sufficient wave details because viewing angle scale of simplex. In this paper, an infrared algorithm based on Pierson–Moskowitz spectrum a bidirectional reflect...