S mall businesses are a critical feature of the U.S. political and economic landscape. Businesses with fewer than 500 employees account for almost half of all gross revenues generated by U.S. businesses, employ half of all private-sector workers, and generate between 60 and 80 percent of net new jobs. Many policymakers, interested in supporting small businesses and entrepreneurship, have been c...

Resumen Background: With the 2-way mixed model, one a fi xed factor and the other random, the procedure followed to test statistical signifi cance of the random factor has been the focus of a heated controversy in theoretical and applied statistics, and the debating continues even now. One of the main consequences of this controversy is that the position defended in the classical ANOVA texts on...

HPL-BRIMS-97-13, August 1997 Dynamics of min-max functions Jean Cochet-Terrasson BPRE, Etat Major de l'Arm ee de l'Air, 24 Bd. Victor, 75015 Paris, France St ephane Gaubert INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France [email protected] Jeremy Gunawardena (corresponding author) BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gi ord, Bristol BS12 6QZ, UK Tel : + 44 117 922 8...

During winter, aerial surveys are used to estimate densities of ducks that occupy open-water habitats. However, such surveys are ineffective for sampling forest-dwelling species, especially Aix sponsa (Wood Ducks), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallards), and Lophodytes cucullatus (Hooded Mergansers). We evaluated fi xed-radius plot (FRP) and Reynolds and Goodrum variable-radius plot (VRP) methods for es...

Aesthetic improvement is highly valued by patients seeking orthodontic treatment ( Dann et al. , 1995 ). Subjects with a Class II malocclusion are a good example of patients who are referred to orthodontists primarily for aesthetic improvement ( Dann et al. , 1995 ). In growing patients, two-phase treatment of Class II skeletal malocclusions, which includes growth modifi cation with functional ...

Objectives: The determine the frequency of how common white spot lesions in orthodontic patients .Materials and Methods: A total 147 who visited Orthodontics department at Khyber College Dentistry, Peshawar were included study. Intraoral pictures acquired using a DSLR camera before after therapy (6 months fi xed device insertion) (D600). development was evaluated between pre post-therapy photos...

Three experiments examined behavior in extinction following periodic reinforcement. During the first phase of Experiment 1, four groups of pigeons were exposed to fixed interval (FI 16 s or FI 48 s) or variable interval (VI 16 s or VI 48 s) reinforcement schedules. Next, during the second phase, each session started with reinforcement trials and ended with an extinction segment. Experiment 2 wa...

In addition to the well-known $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}^{(*)}\ensuremath{\ell}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\ell}}$ decays, semileptonic ${B}_{s}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}_{s}^{(*)}\ensuremath{\ell}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\ell}}$ processes offer possibility determine Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|{V}_{cb}|$. We implement dispersive approach describe hadronic form fac...

in this paper, we prove the existence of the solution for boundary value prob-lem(bvp) of fractional dierential equations of order q 2 (2; 3]. the kras-noselskii's xed point theorem is applied to establish the results. in addition,we give an detailed example to demonstrate the main result.

the routine treatment for rotated maxillary incisor is a fi xed appliance, but in some instance the use of this method is impossible. in addition, in only limited cases of rotation, removable appliance is applicable. in this study, the use of a semi-removable appliance is presented, which has some benefi ts over the other methods. in this study, the corrections of about 70 -90° rotation of the ...