miqati al terablusi (1829 to 1884-1245 to 1301) and saati al mesri (1241 to 1298=1825 to 1881) leaders of poets the nineteen century have tried poem of common methods of poem of fetrat re lease and with following of method of ancient poem as jaheli and abbasi era poem to previous station itself return in regard to firmness of style. although some of indications of weakness of fetrat poem in poe...

mahmoud sami al-barodi is one of pioneers of modern arabic poetry and one of leaders of literary movement that his purpose was to revive the old poetical inheritance and to return the literature to its e honorable past. it was the school converting to prominent and unique one ,later. he attempted to compose wishes and to show the realities of society in his poetry. he must really be considered ...

BACKGROUND Considering the high costs of sick leave and the consequences of sick leave for employees, an early return-to-work of employees with mental disorders is very important. Therefore, a workplace intervention is developed based on a successful return-to-work intervention for employees with low back pain. The objective of this paper is to present the design of a randomized controlled tria...

Dung-style abstract argumentation theory centers on argumentation frameworks and acceptance functions. The latter take as input a framework and return sets of labelings. This methodology assumes full awareness of the arguments relevant to the evaluation. There are two reasons why this is not satisfactory. Firstly, full awareness is, in general, not a realistic assumption. Second, frameworks hav...

The returns to hedge funds and other alternative investments are often highly serially correlated. In this paper, we explore several sources of such serial correlation and show that the most likely explanation is illiquidity exposure and smoothed returns. We propose an econometric model of return smoothing and develop estimators for the smoothing profile as well as a smoothing-adjusted Sharpe r...

This study critically reviews current fund performance measures. The performance measure derived from the return-based style analysis (RBSA) by Sharpe (1992) is introduced and compared with other regression-based measures. A comparative simulation is set up to test the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of the alternative measures. The evidence shows that the RBSA measure is superior to other...

A style dress outlet usually purchases products from multiple suppliers with different cost, quality and selling price. It is assumed that some suppliers will sell their goods to the buyer outright, while some other suppliers will offer return policy for items unsold. In the latter case, the supplier buys back from the buyer the unsold items at the end of the selling season. The purpose of this...

One of the common themes in contemporary global health is finding an optimal balance between investments in existing and emerging approaches to fight global health priorities. Existing interventions have been proven to be effective, but they usually have limitations. Emerging interventions could potentially bring greater gains at a lower cost, but health gains are usually uncertain and take muc...

The paper analyzes the intensity of choice in an agent based financial optimization problem. Mean-variance optimizing agents choose among mutual funds of similar styles but varying performance. We specify a model for the allocation of new funds, switching between funds, and withdrawals and obtain statistically significant estimates of the intensity of choice parameter. This estimate is also giv...