Archives-March 2014

Association rule mining is one of the well established fields in data mining. This paper has surveyed the research papers in this field from 1993 to 2013. This paper describes the fundamental algorithms and its advantages and disadvantages. This also provides brief overview of current trends of association and frequent pattern mining and medical applications.

Looking at the print media of UK and Europe about the economic crisis, the present study aims to find out how the writers of the print media in UK and Europe use discourse tools to convey their ideas. In a comparative study of the two media with a focus on such grammatical tools like passivisation, nominalisation, thematisation, and word choice strategies, it was found out that the UK media exaggerate the problem while the European media depict a positive picture of the same crisis.

In the present investigation, we introduce an unified space-time fractional advection-dispersion equation involving Caputo time fractional derivative of order Riesz-Feller space fractional derivatives of order and asymmetry and of order and asymmetry . Then, we consider a Fourier series to obtain its solution involving Volterra integral equation. We also evaluate its numerical approximation formula and discuss some of its particular cases.

The present study aims to investigate the relationship of oil, non-oil exports, capital formation and economic growth in Iran. Empirical results show that there is positive significant relationship between these variables and economic growth. Thus, findings of this study recommend that government should create an enabling environment that would facilitate non-oil exports and augment capital formation.

The basic purpose of this study was to compare the two novels The Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The comparison of both the novels has been done to analyze the attitude of Patriarchal society towards Zaitoon and Hester who are the main characters of the The Bride and The Scarlet Letter respectively. Both the novels are written centuries far apart and in places which are geographically two different parts of the world. However, both the characters face same difficulties and miseries from the patriarchal society. Both refuse to surrender before the oppression and strongly resist against this tyrannical attitude. They prefer to lead the life of their own choice and refuse to follow the set rules and regulations of patriarchal society. The comparative analysis proves that the dominance of patriarchal thought is same in both east and west and women are exploited for one or the other reason by the male dominated societies.. This attitude is not reserved to any particular part of the world or any specific time period. Thus, this fact is established that patriarchy has no geographical and temporal boundaries Nevertheless, Hester and Zaitoon give a very strong message to rest of the women folk that it is through inner courage and determination by which they can defeat the oppressing forces. Both of them become a symbol of struggle against this chauvinistic thought.

This paper describes the sensor nodes and its hardware constraints. This paper throws light over the energy issues of the sensor nodes while transmitting and receiving data over the distances and effects of attenuation due to several environmental parameters. This paper also gives the comparative analysis of received power at different heights of transmitter antenna.

Liver damage is an epidemic disease, which effects essential biochemical activities in all age group. The liver abnormalities caused by synthetic drugs are found to be broad. Conventional drugs used for the treatment of liver disorders are inadequate. In view of the undesirable side effects of synthetic drugs, it is necessary to search for alternative drugs for the treatment of hepatic diseases and replacement of the currently used drugs. Herbal drugs have become very popular for their use in the treatment of liver diseases. Therefore, there is need to focus on systematic research methodology to evaluate scientific basis for the traditional herbal medicines that are claimed to possess hepatoprotective activities. The present review is aimed at providing an overview of the most prospective medicinal plants having pharmacologically reputable antihepatotoxic activities such as Andrographic paniculata, Boerhaavia diffusa, Ocimum sanctum, Tinospora cordifolia, Phyllanthus emblica, etc.

This study tried to investigate how Persian translators manipulate children’s literary texts in translation. To the purpose of this study, the researcher chose the model presented by Lambert and Van Gorp (1985) which was used for the comparison of ST and TT literary system and the description of relations within them. The researcher applied the model to the translation of children’s literature and presented a description of how translators might manipulate the original text in translation. To this purpose the first two sections of the model, preliminary and macro-level data, were selected and applied in the available Persian translations of the children novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). The results showed that the three Persian translations of the novel, translated by Hefazi, Modarres and Ghadiani, included some manipulations at different parts of the novel. They made changes in translating the title of the novel, titles of the chapters, and the way of punctuating; they added metatexts to the translations in the shapes of footnotes and prefaces or even omitted some parts of the novel. These manipulations, whether recognizable by reading the translation alone or along with the original novel, led to a more visible status of the translators.

Nowadays, airline industry has a very delicate and significant role in sustainable development of countries as the successful performance of this branch of industry can create a strong motivation for other industries of a country by doing its mission, objectives and strategies. Using a suitable evaluation framework like Balanced Scorecard can relate to strategic plans and objectives, evaluate different areas of the organization, as well as presenting a full report of organizational performance. However, in countries where the organizations are significantly influenced by the cultural-religious factors of society, the standard Balanced Scorecard model cannot work out. Thus, in this research, we aim to extend the model by adding “culture and values” perspective as a new and determinant factor. In order to do this, we identified the indictors of the model and localized it by library studies and interviewing the managers and experts of several airlines. Then, the most important functional indicators in areas such as financial, customer and market, internal business processes, learning and growth and culture and values were identified and a questionnaire containing 267 indicators in 5 components for determining the significance of each indicator were randomly distributed among 110 managers and experts of the airlines. The components and indicators of the questionnaire were tested by parametric T-student. Consequently, using TOPSIS technique as one of the MADM decision making techniques, the components and indicators were weighted and ranked. The results show that the “culture and values” is the most important component. According to this, we designed a performance evaluation model for airlines which reflects the values and cultural circumstance of a specific country and it seems that using this model can be applied by all other countries with the similar cultural, social, political and economic context.

The concept of life style is one of characteristic of the modern world and modernity. Those who live in the modern societies use the concept of life style to describe their actions and others. The life style is meant by choosing the routine life. Thus unlike the traditional societies in which people had lived replaced and little alternative. In contemporary society Due to its importance personal responsibility and the rise of consumer society has more choices in life. This study sought to examine some social factors related to lifestyle and consumer culture. The methodology is survey and questionnaire is to collect information. The study populations of women 30-18 years old living in the city of Kermanshah (Iran), in this study, 274 people a quota sampling method were selected as samples. According to the results, there are significant relations between the cultural capital, media consumption, age and lifestyle. Multivariate analysis showed that the four independent variables, cultural, media consumption, age and social comparison, 42 percent put together have been able to explain changes in the dependent variable.