Empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a lognormal or Pareto distribution. However, these studies have focused on developed countries and little attention has been devoted to developing countries. Using the variable of number of employees as a measure of firm size, this paper investigates the shape of firm size distribution in the food & beverages i...

This study makes use of the Tsallis entropy to predict the shear stress distribution. Given a definition of the Tsallis entropy, it is maximized by using the probability density function, which then is used to attain a novel shear stress equation. This is then employed for calculating the shear stress distribution in rectangular channels in different aspect ratios and finally, for viability, th...

Defect maps of 57 wafers containing large area VLSI ICs were analyzed in order to find a good match between the empirical distribution of defects and a theoretical model. Our main result is that the commonly employed models, most notably, the large area clustering negative binomial distribution, do not provide a sufficiently good match for these large area ICs. Even the recently proposed medium...

Introduction: Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a Zoonosis disease. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational intervention on practice improvement of employees in healthcare centers and meat distribution centers of Ilam province in relation to Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever. Materials and methods: Participants in present quasi-experimental study were 200 emplo...

We hope to advance the Semantic Web by doing research within the boundaries of the known. Isn’t that all we can do? It seems hard to break out of the boundaries of the known, but no, I don’t think it is good enough, and that we need to challenge this view, and that we should look to philosophy of science and natural science for inspiration. My fundamental assumption, which I hope you will agree...

In the questionnaire analysis, finding whether there is a statistically significant difference between two or more groups in a continuous measure is one of the major problems in researches. However, it is difficult for researchers to solve the issue of finding possible statistically significant difference, namely “Statistically Significant Difference Unawareness Issue”. There are two causes to ...

Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the 21 century. This paper investigates firstly what well-known e-commerce organizations are communicating on their websites to address this issue. For this purpose we analyze secondary data (literature and websites of ten organizations). Secondly we investigate the good practice in this area and recommend practical steps. The key findings are that...