We introduce a minimal Agent Based Model for financial markets to understand the nature and Self-Organization of the Stylized Facts. The model is minimal in the sense that we try to identify the essential ingredients to reproduce the main most important deviations of price time series from a Random Walk behavior. We focus on four essential ingredients: fundamentalist agents which tend to stabil...

In the development of location-based services, various locationsensing techniques and experimental/commercial services have been used. We propose a novel method of predicting the user's future movements in order to develop advanced location-based services. The user’s movement trajectory is modeled using a combination of recurrent self-organizing maps (RSOM) and the Markov model. Future movement...

interventions in the writing self-efficacy calibration of students with learning disabilities (LD). 121 5th and 6th Primary grade students with LD (43 girls and 78 boys), ranging in age from 10 to 12 years old were randomly allocated either to one of the experimental intervention groups, (n = 48, 19 girls and 29 boys), and followed a intervention program based on the Self-Regulated Strategy Dev...

Autonomic Computing is an emerging computing paradigm used to create computer systems capable of self-management in order to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of computing systems management. To possess self-* properties, there must be mechanisms to support self-awareness, that is an autonomic system should be able to perceive the abnormality of its components. After abnormality is checke...

the subject of womanhood is an attempt to explain why the woman is a symbol of self. i will start the paper with the story of “a’arabi and the caliph” from the view point of symbol and then i will continue with the definition of self, symbol, why the woman is a symbol of self as it is believed by mystics. the allegorical result based on najm razi’s theory shows the accompaniment of self with wi...

background & aim:  self-confidence, as one of the key elements of clinical competence, plays an important role in one’s actions and behaviours. selection of proper instructional methods influences students’ self-confidence. therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of web-based training and educational simulation on midwifery students’ self-confidence in postpartum hemorrhage managemen...

background: gifted students have many personality traits that can improve them to experiences achievement. some factoers such as openness to experience and self-reference aid us to find relationship between these factors and others dimensions. methods: the relationship between personality traits, self-awareness, and self-actualization dimensions was assayed among 239 gifted students from shiraz...

Self-assessment and task-based assessment have recently attracted attention in language learning and testing contexts worldwide; however, little research has been carried out to document the link between these notions. The present research was an attempt to investigate the connection between task-free/task-based self-assessment and learners’ self-perceived communicative competence in speaking. ...