Options constitute integral part of modern financial trades, and are priced according to the risk associated with buying or selling certain asset in future. Financial literature mostly concentrates on risk-neutral methods of pricing options such as BlackScholes model. However, it is an emerging field in option pricing theory to use trading agents with utility functions to determine the option’s...

one of the most traditional architecture and urban planning patterns is bazaar. the aim of this paper is studying social, economical and architectural features of traditional bazaars. the claim of this study is that they are significant relationship between social and economical values of bazaars with their architectural values. bazaar usually is located along the main routes of the city and ex...

baladieh as a new administration, has started its operation from the constitutional era, and in reza shah's reign continued its undertakings more seriously in the field of urban planning, cleaning, and supply needs of the citizens. part of the baladieh actions was in the field of public health. documents clearly indicate the baladieh's attempt to reorganize community's health sta...

Executive functions (EFs; e.g., reasoning, working memory, and self-control) can be improved. Good news indeed, since EFs are critical for school and job success and for mental and physical health. Various activities appear to improve children's EFs. The best evidence exists for computer-based training, traditional martial arts, and two school curricula. Weaker evidence, though strong enough to...

background and objective: cerebro-vascular accident (cva) is considered to be one of the main causes of acquired motor disability in adults. different motor rehabilitation programs are being designed in order to improve motor difficulties of patients with cva. in the current study we aimed to assess the effect of task-based mirror therapy on upper limb functions and activities of daily living i...

conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...

Total and specific activities of alaninaminotransferase (Al-AT) were determined in general tissues, mitochondrial and cytosol fractions of visual, orbital, motor, limbic areas of brain cortex and hypothalamus of three-month old and one-year old rats under 10-20 days and 30 days protein deprivation and under recovery of normal food regime during the same terms. It was found out that Al-AT activi...

Design research (DR) has matured as an important research approach within information systems. It can be seen as a response to the quest of more focus on the IT artefact. Besides the IT artefact, there are other important artefacts to build and study in DR. There are models and prototypes which are produced during information systems development. This paper has investigated the empirics of desi...

The biological function of the cholinesterase (ChE) enzymes has been studied since the beginning of the twentieth century. Acetylcholinesterase plays a key role in the modulation of neuromuscular impulse transmission in vertebrates, while in invertebrates pseudo cholinesterases are preeminently represented. During the last 40 years, awareness of the role of ChEs role in regulating non-neuromusc...