The repercussions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution are too often attributed to the idea that the state’s policy-making was based on a Khomeinist-charged ideology that sought to expand political Islam throughout the Middle ...

This paper aims at providing a better understanding of the workings of political rhetoric in the discourse of Hizbollah by examining relatively underexplored socio-cognitive dimensions in production and reception of political ...

Let S = {x1, x2, ..., xn} be a set of n distinct positive integers. The matrix [S] = (sij) having the greatest common divisor (xi, xj) of xi and xj as its i, j-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix on ...

Visualization is the process of using geometrical illustrations of mathematical concepts. Over the past centuries, a decline in the geometric element in mathematical instruction has been observed. Computers have given ...

String art dates back to the 19th century when it was initially invented to ease the delivery of some mathematical ideas. Since then, the art has evolved and so has its use in mathematics. In this chapter, the authors see ...

We consider the multi-parameter representation of Artin’s braid group introduced by D. D. Long and J. P. Tian, namely α : Bn → GLm(C), where m = n!n . First, we show that there exists a complex specialization of the ...

We consider the spin representation of Artin’s braid group, which has a negative index of one and was originally given by D. D. Long and explicitly computed by J.P.Tian. In our work, we find sufficient conditions under ...

The use of technology is now widespread at the school as well as college levels. Instructors, however, continuously debate the usefulness of hardware/software in enhancing the learners' knowledge and their understanding ...

The study of 2 × 2 linear iterative systems leads naturally to an analysis of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the corresponding system matrix. The phase portraits for such systems have been previously examined and ...

In this paper we examine the linear elliptic partial differential operators that appear as Euler–Lagrange systems of certain variational integrals. We give a sufficient condition for those systems to be deformable to ...