treatment of offenders is a humanistic approach in reaction to crimes, which has different scientific models. in addition to the un emphasis on this approach, islamic texts are full of corrective patterns and guidelines. iranian legislator, clearly, in article 156 of iranian constitution adapted this approach. nevertheless study of rules and regulations shows the lack of appropriate usage of th...

introduction: in the age of information, in order for offering integrated library services to the users, librarians need to be knowledgable about new web technologies and their applications in library services, especially in medical areas.  this study investigates the level of knowledge and and usage of world wide web in library services among medical librarians in tehran. methods: the present ...

This paper advocates the study and use of visualization design patterns to improve development productivity and usage effectiveness in dynamic, analytical data visualization. Nine visualization design patterns are presented formally using the current de facto pattern description language. Organized in three categories (data, structural, and behavioral), these patterns summarize many common prac...

web usage mining (wum) is the automatic discovering of hidden informationof user access pattern from the web log data. frequent pattern discovery is one ofthe main techniques in wum that can be used to implement recommender systems,forecast user`s navigational behaviour, and personalize web sites. many algorithmshave been suggested on obtaining frequent user navigation patterns. this paperprese...

This paper discusses the potential benefits of using gamification techniques to increase student engagement with library resources. It outlines the link between student use of library resources and academic achievement, and suggests that gamification has to potential to increase usage of resources, which may also increase academic achievement. Some early findings from an implementation of a gam...