[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to verify the effect of posture correctional programs using basic TaeKwonDo movements. [Subjects] The subjects were TaeKwonDo trainees attending an elementary school in B city. They were separated into experimental and control groups according to posture problems found during posture analysis. [Methods] The subjects of the training exercise program perfor...

abstract determining whether a surah is makki or madani is an effective way to understand the surah and to choose the most desirable interpretative traditions. there are many surahs considered makki and a few ones considered madani. on the other hand, there is another group of surahs which their dating can be disputable. surah al-ra’d should be put in this group. by analyzing the traditions rel...

As my three-year term as the founding editor of the Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021) ends in October 2008, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Dr. Kia Makki as the next Editor-in-Chief of JCM. Dr. Makki is a Lucent Technology Professor with tenure, the Co-Director of the Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT2), and has been Associate Dean of the College of Enginee...

E. M. Haacke, M. Makki, Y. Ge, M. Maheshwari, J. Garbern, O. Khan, J. Hu, M. Selvan, and L. Zahid Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States, Radiology and Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States, Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States, Neurology, Wa...

Extensive research efforts in the area of Information Retrieval were concentrated on developing retrieval systems related to Arabic language for the different natural language and information retrieval methodologies. However, little effort was conducted in those areas for knowledge extraction from the Holly Muslim book, the Quran. In this paper, we present an approach (MQVC) for retrieving the ...