the study examined relationship between the gross domestic product (gdp) of nigeria with the inputs of labour, capital and the output of fisheries. this is to ascertain that the fisheries contribution to the economy is more than is recorded in the sense that taking its indirect and direct economic impact into account, its overall contribution to the gdp of nigeria may be higher than that measur...

conclusions after eight sessions, increased awareness of the environment, improved posture and gait pattern, improved motivation and enjoyment, improved patient tolerance, improved appearance and personal hygiene, loss of purposeful behavior, a realistic plan of action every day, improved attention span, improved decision-making skills, and improved community involvement and coping skills were ...

predictions of suspended sediment load for soolegan river, iran using selected empirical equ-ations were made based on 355 data sets. data include flow discharges from 3.11 m3/s to 43.81 m3/s, flow velocities from 0.22 m/s to 1.03 m/s, and flow depths from 0.5 to 1.03 m. equations of einstein (1950), bagnold (1966), toufalleti (1968), brooks (1963), chang-simons-richardson(1965),lane-kalinske (...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected individuals are occasionally used as donors for bone marrow transplantation (BMT). We studied the rate of HBV infection and the clinical expression of the associated liver disease in patients receiving marrow from HBsAg+ donors. We performed a retrospective survey in 14 BMT units in Italy in which all BMTs performed between 1984 and 1994 were reviewed and those ...

The growth of regional trade blocks has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Regional agreements vary widely but, all have the objective of reducing barriers to trade between member countries that in most cases result in increasingly trade flows and economic growth. This paper attempts to explore the results of trade integration in ECO, EU and OIC block...

This paper presents a novel approach to achieving the goals of data envelopment analysis in the process of reconstruction and integration of decision-making units by using multiple objective linear programming. In this regard, first, we review inverse data envelopment analysis models for data reconstruction and integration. We present a model with multi-objective linear programming structure in...