We discuss a figured pin from Shahdad, previously well known but published with a partial and unsatisfactory drawing.  More detailed observations and a new, more realistic recording of this important artifact reconsider its stylistic and iconographic links with the imagery of the Halil Rud civilization and the eastern Iranian Plateau in general, and, at its opposite cultural poles, with Mesopot...

This article refers to:RETRACTED ARTICLE: Sequential Casting Using Multiple Materials: A Bronze Age “Royal Sceptre” from the Halil Rud Valley (Kerman, Iran)

A chlorite “hand-bag” belonging to the once-called “intercultural style” production, currently on exhibit in the NationalArchaeological Museum, Tehran, is described focusing attention, for the first time, to the peculiar wear traces clearlyvisible on the handle and along its contour. The strong wear suggests that the hand-bag was suspended for a long time ona cord; and that in this setting it w...

ion Summarization for Managing the Biomedical Research Literature Marcelo Fiszman Thomas C. Rindflesch Halil Kilicoglu Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD 20894 {fiszman|tcr|halil}@nlm.nih.gov

Because wrist rotation dynamics are dominated by stiffness (Charles SK, Hogan N. J Biomech 44: 614-621, 2011), understanding how humans plan and execute coordinated wrist rotations requires knowledge of the stiffness characteristics of the wrist joint. In the past, the passive stiffness of the wrist joint has been measured in 1 degree of freedom (DOF). Although these 1-DOF measurements inform u...

Subject-specific musculoskeletal models require accurate values of muscle moment arms. The aim of this study was to compare moment arms of wrist tendons obtained from non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to those obtained from an in vitro experimental approach. MRI was performed on ten upper limb cadaveric specimens to obtain the centrelines for the flexor carpi radialis (FCR), flexor ...

I prove that there is a recursive function T that does the following: Let X be transitive and rud closed, and let X ′ be the closure of X ∪{X} under rud functions. Given a Σ0 formula φ(x) and a code c for a rud function f , T (φ, c, ~x) is a Σω formula such that for any ~a ∈ X, X ′ |= φ[f(~a)] iff X |= T (φ, c, ~x)[~a]. I make this precise and show relativized versions of this. As an applicatio...

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in temporal gran-ularity, and its applications in temporal dependency theory and data mining. Generalization hierarchies used in multi-dimensional databases and OLAP serve a role similar to that of time granularity in temporal databases, but they also apply to non-temporal dimensions, like space. In this paper, we rst generalize temporal functional dep...

the fishes of capoeta genus are living in different fauna regions of iranian freshwater fishes. the parasitological studies of these fishes are important on subjects of ecology and life cycles in different fishes. the aim of this study was to study the parasites of capoeta spp. in halil-rud river, kerman province. samples were collected from the freshwater fishes (between oct. 2007 to sep. 2008...

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in temporal granularity, and its applications in temporal dependency theory and data mining. Generalization hierarchies used in multi-dimensional databases and OLAP serve a role similar to that of time granularity in temporal databases, but they also apply to non-temporal dimensions, like space. In this paper, we first generalize temporal functional de...