Original and cumulative prospect theory differ in the composition rule used to combine the probability weighting function and the value function. We test these composition rules by performing a novel test. We apply estimates of prospect theory’s weighting and value function obtained from two-outcome cash equivalents, a domain where original and cumulative prospect theory coincide, to three-outc...

1. introduction the effect of blocking on iran’s precipitation in numeral way and long-term has not been done yet. however, in some researches based on weak indexes like one-dimension has been implied to iran that in studying many cases we observe lack of blocking event and or their continuation that has been for less than 5 days. this phenomenon in some cases occurs in our country directly and...

iran is a rather wide country, and, as a rule, the chrage per one call in s. t .d . (subscriber trunk dialing ) is required more compared with a local call , so, just after the opening of the std service widely in national telephone network, unconcerned use of the s. t. d. service has been caused on an incon- ceivable increase in telephone charge of th subscriber. this is a common problem for a...

A total of seven different isolates of Hantaviruses from five mammalian species and six geographical areas were examined by a double sandwich ELISA with biotin-avidin amplification system. Three serotypes were recognized by comparing antigen titres to homologous and heterologous antibody and blocking antibody titres to homologous and heterologous antigens. Serotype 1 included four strains: Hant...

Insulin secretion by pancreatic β-cells in response to glucose or other secretagogues is tightly coupled to membrane potential. Various studies have highlighted the prospect of enhancing insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner by blocking voltage-gated potassium channels (K(v)) and calcium-activated potassium channels (K(Ca)). Such strategy is expected to present a lower risk for hypogl...

The present study evaluated the learning objectives represented in the recent Iranian nation-wide ELT textbooks, i.e. Prospect and Vision series, and compared them to those in the internationally-published textbook of Four Corners. To this end, Bloom’s revised taxonomy of learning objectives was utilized as the analytical framework to scrutinize the tasks and exercises of the textbooks using a ...

This paper studies the effect of the space (distance) between lotteries' outcomes on risk-taking behavior and the shape of estimated utility and probability weighting functions. Previously investigated experimental data shows a significant space effect in the gain domain. As compared to low spaced lotteries, high spaced lotteries are associated with higher risk aversion for high probabilities o...

While attempting to clarify the confusion concerning the conceptualization of "blocking zeros" in state space in the recent literature, some new observations are made on the relationship between pole-zero cancellation and transmission blocking. An important distinction between uncontrollable and unobservable eigenvalue s is pointed out; and it is argued that the description of a Blocking Zero, ...