Hypothesis testing is an important activity of empirical research and evidence-based medicine. A well worked up hypothesis is half the answer to the research question. For this, both knowledge of the subject derived from extensive review of the literature and working knowledge of basic statistical concepts are desirable. The present paper discusses the methods of working up a good hypothesis an...

the paper intends to briefly present a perspective of the significanceand substance of the economic justice. it then reviews the teachings ofislamic sharia , and various opinious presented on the subject, andconcludes four specific rules . and criierias for determination and assessment of the existence of justice in economics, as follows: 1 - product sharing on the basis of participation in pro...

Human affiliation with nonhuman nature is an important dimension of environmental concern and support for pro-environmental attitudes. A significant theory of human connectedness with nature, the Biophilia Hypothesis, suggests that there exists a genetically based inclination for human affiliation with the biological world. Both support and challenge to the Biophilia Hypothesis are abundant in ...

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Acknowledgments: We thank Paul Glimcher for his comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.

Protein classification can be performed by representing 3-D protein structures by graphs and then classifying the corresponding graphs. One effective way to classify such graphs is to use frequent subgraph patterns as features; however, the effectiveness of using subgraph patterns in graph classification is often hampered by the large search space of subgraph patterns. In this paper, the author...

We find a necessary and sufficient condition for ex-ante trade when agents are non-expected utility maximizers. The condition is that they share subjective beliefs. Our result holds for a class of convex preferences that contains many functional forms used in applications. In a special case of expected utility, the condition becomes exactly the common prior assumption. It can also be articulate...

I consider a model of directed search in which strategic sellers advertise general trading mechanisms. A mechanism determines the number of buyers that will get served and the side payments as a function of ex post realized demand. After observing these advertisements buyers simultaneously visit exactly one seller. Each buyer’s expected utility depends on the visiting decisions of other buyers....

Boltzmann’s discrete approach to the theory of ensembles and the ergodic hypothesis and modern ap-

Allergic asthma continues to represent a huge health burden worldwide and is largely treated by non-selective immunosuppressive drugs, which often prove ineffective. The hygiene hypothesis proposes that the increased incidence of allergy and asthma in Western countries observed in the last 50 years is due to environmental changes that include improved hygiene and a lack of infections. The immun...