The Rational Expectations Permanent Income Hypothesis implies that consumption follows a martingale. However, most empirical tests have rejected the hypothesis. Those empirical tests are based on linear models. If the data generating process is non-linear, conventional tests may not assess some of the randomness properly. As a result, inference based on conventional tests of linear models can b...

Openness is an unruly concept. While free tends toward ambiguity (free as in speech, or free as in beer?), open tends toward obfuscation. Everyone claims to be open, everyone has something to share, everyone agrees that being open is the obvious thing to do-after all, but for all its nt of Free Software. It is never quite clear whether being open is a means or an end. Worse, the opposite of ope...

In the past decade, the notion of a neural correlate of consciousness (or NCC) has become a focal point for scientific research on consciousness (Metzinger, 2000a). A growing number of investigators believe that the first step toward a science of consciousness is to discover the neural correlates of consciousness. Indeed, Francis Crick has gone so far as to proclaim that ‘we ... need to discove...

the sampling method is simple random sampling. in order to measure women's social adjustment social adjustment scale (sas) was used.there is a significant relationship between women and motherhood in social attitudes. consensual relationships between people and tends to be a mother, there is a significant relationship. the social adjustment of status after marriage roles as wives and mothe...

Network devices put packets on an Internet link, and multiplex, or superpose, the packets from different active connections. Extensive empirical and theoretical studies of packet traffic variables — arrivals, sizes, and packet counts — demonstrate that the number of active connections has a dramatic effect on traffic characteristics. At low connection loads on an uncongested link — that is, wit...

Linguistic geography and dialectology in France have a long and distinguished history. Much foundational early work on the geography of accents and dialects was done there in the late 19 and early 20 centuries, with the work of Gilliéron and Edmont, and their successors. Later, such distinguished figures as Martinet, Walter and others continued the tradition. Most of this dialectology, though, ...

françois mauriac, a scholar and a famous french author and the winner of the nobel prize in literature, , unlike any of his contemporaries is not known in iran. in this article, it has been attempted to know him better on the basis of his viewpoints toward two famous contemporaries, andré gide and marcel proust. mauriac believes that these two writers incorporated a detailed reflection of relig...