the purpose of this study is presenting a model forecasting financial crisis in tehran stock exchange listed companies. to do this, productive firms that had been accepted in tehran stock exchange between 2002 and 2009, were selected as the study sample. first the independent variables were obtained based on financial ratios and then based on article 141 of the law of commerce, the insolvent an...

abstract the global economy faces crisis every so often. in recent years, the financial crisis has affected the global economy; all countries, directly or indirectly, are involved. the purpose of this research is to study the impact of the global economic crisis on the capital structure of listed companies in tehran stock exchange. to test this effect, 87 companies listed in tehran stock exchan...

This study investigated the effect of cross sectional geometry on sediment transport rate. The processes of sediment transport are generally associated to environmental management, such as pollution caused by the forming of suspended sediment in the channel network of a watershed and preserving physical habitats and native vegetations, and engineering applications, such as the influence of sedi...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether strain histograms are equal to strain ratios in predicting breast tumour malignancy and to see if either could be used to upgrade Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) 3 tumours for immediate biopsy. METHODS Ninety-nine breast tumours were examined using B-mode BI-RADS scorings and strain elastography. Strain histograms and ratios were assessed, and a...

Microstructures that generate shear-protected regions in microchannels can rapidly immobilize cells for cell-based biosensing and drug screening. Here, a two-step fabrication method is used to generate double microgrooves with various depth ratios to achieve controlled double-level cell patterning while still providing shear protection. Six microgroove geometries are fabricated with different g...

response modification factor (r factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to be considered in evaluating the performance of buildings during strong motions. this paper has tried to evaluate the response modification factor of concrete coupled shear wall structures with various length/depth ratios of spandrel beams. the effect of diagonal reinforcement of spandrel beam was also evaluated o...

We discuss the analysis of 12C/13C ratios in cool carbon stars presented by de Laverny & Gustafsson (1998), who questioned the reliability of the iso-intensity method used by Ohnaka & Tsuji (1996). We show that the systematic discrepancy of 12C/13C ratios between Lambert et al. (1986) and Ohnaka & Tsuji (1996) cannot be attributed to the uncertainty of the iso-intensity method. The analysis of ...

OBJECTIVE To reassess the inclination of lower incisors and evaluate possible associations with gender, age, symphyseal parameters, and skeletal pattern. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve hundred and seventy-two (605 females, 667 males) cephalograms of untreated subjects of a craniofacial growth study (age: 8-16 years) were evaluated. Correlations between the angulation of the lower incisors and a...

The specific force equation has many applications in open channel flow problems. Quantifying of the hydraulic jump phenomenon is an important application of this equation. This equation has a direct solution only for the rectangular channels. The trial and error procedure as well as the graphical solution are the existing methods of solving hydraulic jump equations. No direct solutions are avai...