this paper tries to survey the independence of central bank of iran and its relationship to inflation by using the data of 56 developing countries during 1990s. the results signifies that there are no significant relationship between inflation and the independence of central banks in these countries. in other words, according to the existing evidences, not all the developing countries with high...

this paper wants to investigate why fereydūn’s mace was bull-headed. since such weapon has a prominent role in our epics and it has been used by most of our heroes, it seems important to find its origin out.  to achieve this goal, there is a brief explanation about mace and all kinds of it in the texts of different periods in iranian and some other indo-european cultures. then some mythological...

The purpose of this article was to investigate the use deliberative decision-making lessons, such as rank-order format, for evaluating historical events. In lesson, students act an ancient historian by pieces evidence early Christian's claim that Jesus raised bodily from dead. Students evaluated eight separate discussed in scholarship rank-ordering evidences strong weak.

nitric oxide (no) is a simple ubiquitous signaling molecule and plays important roles in almost every biological system. recent evidences suggest that no may act as an endocrine molecule. the aim of this review is considering available literature on endocrine roles of no and/or its metabolites, i.e. nitrite and nitrate. existing data suggest the idea that no is a hormone that after production i...

Title of Dissertation: Semantically-Linked Bayesian Networks: A Framework for Probabilistic Inference Over Multiple Bayesian Networks Rong Pan, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation Directed by: Yun Peng Professor Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County At the present time, Bayesian networks (BNs), presumably the most popular uncertain...

-Electronic contract-signing is an important issue in Electronic Commerce. This paper proposed a novel abuse-free contract signing protocol based on convertible signature and non-interactive designated verifier proof. One interesting property is that the outcome evidences are standard RSA signatures, which makes the protocol be easily integrated into existing systems.

We describe the Simple Greedy Matrix Completion Algorithm providing an efficient method for restoration of low-rank matrices from incomplete corrupted entries. We provide numerical evidences that, even in the simplest implementation, the greedy approach may increase the recovery capability of existing algorithms significantly.