We develop an affinity model for longitudinal categorical data in which the number of categories is large and we apply the technique to 20 years of labour market data for a contemporary cohort of young adult workers in the USA. The method provides a representation of the underlying complexity of the labour market that can then be augmented to include covariate effects. These can be understood a...

Commercial health & fitness clubs are providing an important kind of sporting service. On the basis of questionnaires and interviews with relevant research results, consumers of health & fitness clubs in Liverpool area are studied about their structures including ages, genders, etc., motivation of consumption, and consumption level as well as demand characteristics. Through impressing on the wh...

We construct compactly supported self-similar solutions of the Modi ed PorousMedium Equation (MPME) ut = um for um > 0 (1 + ") um for um < 0: They have the form u(x; t) = t U(x t ); where the similarity exponents and depend on ", m and the dimension N . This corresponds to what is known in the literature as anomalous exponents or self-similarity of the second kind, a not completely understood p...

background and aim: aging is associated with reduced cognitive abilities including attention and memory. there is some evidence that shows randomized dichotic digits test (rddt) has enough difficulty to show the ear asymmetry in dichotic listening. this study aimed to compare the effect of free and focused attention on dichotic listening ability of young and elderly listeners. methods: the cros...

The problem of tting continuous time autoregressions linear and non linear to closely and regularly spaced data is considered For the linear case Jones and Bergstrom used state space representations to compute exact maximum likelihood estimators and Phillips did so by tting an appropriate discrete time ARMA process to the data In this paper we use exact conditional maximum likelihood estimators...

background:the different duration of delay to first contact with a psychiatrist in depressive disordered patients has been observed in western and non western cultures. this study aimed to examine the duration and predictive factors of delay in contact with a psychiatrist in depressive patients in isfahan city of iran. methods:in this cross sectional study 156 depressive patients were recruited...

this study was an attempt to find out whether co-teaching model has statistically any significant impact on improving motivation and achievement of iranian young efl learners or not. the study was conducted at salehin english language department in tehran. to accomplish the purpose of this study, the researchers chose a sample of 91 participants which was reduced to 62 homogenous students throu...

Objective(s): Zonula occludens proteins (ZO-1 and ZO-2) are important intracellular tight junction (TJ)-associated proteins that link the cell cytoskeleton to the trans-membrane TJ proteins.  Destruction of TJ proteins is called the “leaky gut syndrome” and has been observed in some of the gastrointestinal diseases such as the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). So, ther...