Mesopotamia is the broad, flat alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is today Syria and Iraq (Fig. 1). Under the rule of Sargon of Akkad, the world’s first united empire was established in this region, linking the remote agricultural hinterlands of northern Mesopotamia with the complex city-states in the south. This united empire extended from the Persian Gulf to the he...

We investigated the role of culture in processing hierarchical syntactic structures in music. We examined whether violation of non-local dependencies manifest in event related potentials (ERP) for Western and Iranian excerpts by recording EEG while participants passively listened to sequences of modified/original excerpts. We also investigated oscillatory and synchronization properties of brain...

we usewe use ml shear wave velocity to derive a high resolution 2d ml shear wave velocity map for the iranian plateau. the ml amplitudes and arrival times are routinely measured for the calculation of local magnitude. ml shear wave velocity is very sensitive to the lateral change of crustal thickness and switches between the velocity of lg and sn waves. an lg wave will die out as soon as encoun...

Weitzman’s [13] search model requires that, conditional on stopping, theagent only takes boxes which have already been inspected. We relax thisassumption and allow the agent to take any uninspected box without in-specting its contents when stopping. Thus, each uninspected box is nowa potential outside option. This introduces a new trade-off: every timethe agent inspects a bo...

The traditional view of skill acquisition is that it can be explained by a gradual transition from behavior based on declarative rules in the form of examples and instructions towards general knowledge represented by procedural rules. This view is challenged by Logan’s instance theory, which specifies that skill acquisition can be explained by the accumulation of examples or instances of the sk...

Abstract Palatial economic archives from various regions — the Aegean world to Mesopotamia and periods of Bronze Age, attest use by palatial administrations procedures in which workers were obliged perform a task, whether craft or agricultural, on behalf palace. This article examines possibility that such procedure existed also Ugarit, since group administrative texts relating metals appear com...

For a simple model of a stock, whose stock price is a geometric Brownian motion in which the drift rate changes back and forth between positive and negative values, optimal selling times are computed. An infinite optimal selling time meaning you should just hold the stock.