In this study the characterisation and separation/discrimination of three sheep breeds (crosses, West African Dwarfs (WAD) and West African Long Legged (WALL)] based on their physical traits (morphological characterisation) was investigated extensively with the application of discriminant analysis. The study's main objective was specifically based on developing a variable selection criterion th...

this research investigates the legal effects of marriage contract provision. through the study of reasons present in the issue, the author concludes that being loyal to the provision is considered as a legal requirement and the one against whom the condition is made can be forced to be faithful. of course in case of violation from the marriage provision, the option of annulment is not proved, w...

‎two types of properties for linear connections (natural and almost paracontact metric) are discussed in almost paracontact metric geometry with respect to four linear connections‎: ‎levi-civita‎, ‎canonical (zamkovoy)‎, ‎golab and generalized dual‎. ‎their relationship is also analyzed with a special view towards their curvature‎. ‎the particular case of an almost paracosymplectic manifold giv...

studies have showed the river siahroud is the main contributor to the present pollution of anzali wetland in guilan. therefore, this study was initiated to evaluate the spatial distribution of metals pollution on the river siahroud sediments in guilan.surfacial river sediment samples along this river were taken during five consecutive seasons at eight sampling stations and analyzed for availabi...

Comments welcome * We thank Dennis Epple for helpful comments. The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance provided generous financial support. All errors are our own responsibility. Abstract How important are cross-stock common factors in the price discovery/liquidity provision process in equity markets? We investigate two aspects of this question for the thirty Dow stocks. First, using...

P roviding assistance to the poor through in-kind transfers, such as vouchers for food and housing, garners more political support than providing assistance in cash. Supporters of such policies believe that providing voucher payments for certain goods (such as groceries) will cause recipients to purchase more of the goods being subsidized, and that recipients will not be able to use public assi...

This paper argues that the operations of a ‘Universal Turing Machine’ (UTM) and equivalent mechanisms such as the ‘Post Canonical System’ (PCS) which are widely accepted as definitions of the concept of ‘computing’ may be interpreted as information compression by multiple alignment, unification and search (ICMAUS). The motivation for this interpretation is that it suggests ways in which the UTM...