the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...

For the past year the University of Rhode Island's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Team has been working to develop an AUV capable of satisfying the mission requirements as stated by AUVSI and ONR's AUV 7 Annual Competition Rules. The vehicle, named Prowler V, is a continuation of the vehicle developed and modified over the past 4 years. The Prowler V offers increased processing and power e...

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and, more recently, its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) are foundational technologies of secure communications on the Internet. Secure web browsing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), and other secure protocols (such as SFTP and SSH) leverage TLS to ensure the privacy of their communications. To meet the needs of software developers, many libraries have been cre...

Suppose we have a committee composed of a large number of members, and from this committee we wish to create a number of smaller subcommittees, each containing exactly the same number of members. Furthermore, in order to preserve equality and keep all committee members happy, each member must sit on exactly the same number of subcommittees and each pair of members must also sit on the same numb...

background: coronary artery diseases are one of the most important issues in health and social problems. one of the amendable risk factors in development of these diseases is high cholesterol which can be modified through correction of lifestyle (diet change, playing sports, and usage of lipid‑lowering drugs). patients’ compliance to therapeutic programs is the most important element to achieve...

We investigate binary voting systems with two types of voters and a hierarchy among the members in each type, so that members in one class have more influence or importance than members in the other class. The purpose of this paper is to count, up to isomorphism, the number of these voting systems for an arbitrary number of voters. We obtain a closed formula for the number of these systems, thi...