Population forecasts entail a significant amount of uncertainty, especially for long-range horizons and for places with small or rapidly changing populations. This uncertainty can be dealt with by presenting a range of projections or by developing statistical prediction intervals based on models that incorporate the stochastic nature of the forecasting process or on empirical analyses of past f...

vernonia galamensis cass is a huge potential industrial crop with very high content of vernolic acid in the seed oil. the experiment was carried out to determine the effect of inter- and intra- row spacing on the yield and yield related traits of vernonia galamensis cas.the experiment was conducted for two years during 2014-2015 on experimental field of wondo genet agricultural research center,...

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during the recent decades, urban management in iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. the present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been priorit...

the 6th national population and housing census was carried out from october 28 to november 17, 2006 in which three different questionnaires were used. question number 55 of the 3rd questionnaire asked about housing units sewage disposal. this paper studies and analyzes the answers to the mentioned question in regional and national levels. assessment of housing units sewage disposal conditions s...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the timing of bank failure/merger in 10 asian countries over the period of 1999-2007 using a multivariate logit model and a split population duration analysis. apart from bank-specific information, we also focus on the effects of macroeconomic and financial characteristics. the following empirical findings are obtained. first, the resu...

in this commentary, we endorse concerns about the health impact of the trans-pacific partnership (tpp), paying particular attention to its mechanisms for investor state dispute settlement. we then describe the different, judgeled approach being advocated by the european commission team negotiating the trans-atlantic trade and investment partnership, arguing that, while not perfect, it offers si...

abstract in order to investigate density fluctuation and spatial distribution of the main aphidophagous predators and develop a fixed-precision sequential sampling plan, a weekly sweepnet sampling was conducted at five winter wheat fields in gorgan region in northern iran, during two growing seasons of 2006 and 2007. spatial distribution of the predators was described by fitting data to poisson...