strength and duration, that have, so far, characterized economic activity. January 31, 2001: Preliminary real GDP growth for the fourth quarter is barely above 1 percent, more than 4 percentage points below what is was only two quarters before and about 7 percentage points below its level in the third quarter of 1999. Much of the press, and some forecasters, predict that the first quarter of 20...

The paper describes the first controlled trial of an oral glucose electrolyte solution designed on basis optimum pathophysiological needs for rehydration in infantile diarrahoea. solution, having a sodium concentration 50 mmol/l, was tried group 20 infants with moderate to severe dehydration due acute diarrhoea and compared matched 19 predominantly under 2 years age taking 9standard9 90 mmol/l....

globalization and democracy have become the most debated issues throughout the world, which, no doubt also influence iran. this paper highlights these phenomena with respect to iran but takes up the issue through various description and features presented by the con-temporary socio- political thinkers and economists. considering globalization, although the subject matter is very recent but iran...

In a previous article [20], we derived the alternating-sign matrix (ASM) theorem from the Izergin determinant [12, 17] for a partition function for square ice with domain wall boundary. Here we show that the same argument enumerates three other symmetry classes of alternating-sign matrices: VSASMs (vertically symmetric ASMs), even HTSASMs (half-turn-symmetric ASMs), and even QTSASMs (quartertur...