Abstract Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery by identifying statistically important ratios conjunction with expert knowledge scientist during, rather than after, identification process. This results me...

the subject of monetary policy orientation and tailoring a framework within which the credibility and desirability of the policies and the policy makers is enhanced, while the most important goal of policies, i.e reaching to and preserving a low and stable inflation rate is achieved, has recently been a controversial issue for a large number of economists. in fact the necessity arised since the...

Let K/F and K/L be two cyclic Galois field extensions and D = (K/F, σ, c) a cyclic algebra. Given an invertible element d ∈ D, we present three families of unital nonassociative algebras over L ∩ F defined on the direct sum of n copies of D. Two of these families appear either explicitly or implicitly in the designs of fast-decodable space-time block codes in papers by Srinath, Rajan, Markin, O...

Measurements of CDP sample area were made in urgent but brief laboratory studies for RAF's two CDP probes (s/n #58 and #16). These two probes are nominally identical, but the features of these probes have changed over the past year, as follows: (a) electrical damage of #58 during the ICE-T project (July 2011) required rebuild by DMT; (b) December 2011 electronics and firmware upgrades were made...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...