Correlation of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient value, α, with air humidity and wind speed for obtaining evapotranspiration (ET) values similar to those by the Penman-Monteith equation maybe justified from a strictly utilitarian viewpoint in cases when wind measurements are lacking. However, by doing so, a conflict of scale arises, which leaves ample room for incorrect generalization about the ...

The standard method to purify sperm DNA from vaginal swabs taken from rape victims is to selectively digest the victim’s epithelial cells to solubilize the victim’s DNA, and then separate the soluble DNA from the intact sperm by centrifugation. A different approach to removing the soluble victim’s DNA is to selectively degrade it using a nuclease, DNase I. DNase I reduces the amount of soluble ...

In parentage testing when one parent is excluded, the distribution of the number of loci showing exclusion due to mutations of the transmitting alleles is derived, and it is contrasted with the expected distribution when the exclusion is caused by nonpaternity. This theory is applied to allele frequency data on short tandem repeat loci scored by PCR analysis, and VNTR data scored by Southern bl...

Estimation of age of skeletal remains is one of the most complex questions for anthropologists. The most common macroscopic methods are based on dental wear and histological evaluation of bone remodeling. These methods are often qualitative, require great technical expertise, and have proved inexact in the estimation of ages over 50 years. Certain dental methods investigate the apposition of se...

• (inter-arrival times and arrival times) – Arrival times T1,T2, · · · are i.i.d. and have Exp(λ) distribution. – The kth arrival time Yk = T1 + · · · + Tk is called to have the Erlang distribution of order k. • (merging of Poisson processes) If (At ) and (Bt ) are independent Poisson processes of rate α and β, resp., then – Nt = At + Bt is a Poisson process of rate λ = α + β. – If (Xn )∞ n=1 i...

in this note we first redefine the notion of a fuzzy hypervectorspace (see [1]) and then introduce some further concepts of fuzzy hypervectorspaces, such as fuzzy convex and balance fuzzy subsets in fuzzy hypervectorspaces over valued fields. finally, we briefly discuss on the convex (balanced)hull of a given fuzzy set of a hypervector space.

in this note we point out and rectify some errors in a recently published paper “n. singh, r. jain: coupled fixed point results for weakly related mappings in partially ordered metric spaces, bull. iranian math. soc. 40 (2014), no. 1, 29-40”.

‎the main purpose of this note is to establish some bounds in poisson approximation for row-wise arrays of independent geometric distributed random variables using the operator method‎. ‎some results related to random sums of independent geometric distributed random variables are also investigated.