objective: this study aimed to compare irrational beliefs, defense mechanisms and marital satisfaction in fertile and  infertile women. materials and methods: this study was a causal comparative survey performed on 30 fertile and 30 infertile women chosen by available and simple random sampling out of the whole clients referred to vali-e-asr reproductive health research center from february 200...

Over the course of this article, we will discuss irrational numbers and several different ways to prove their existence. As is commonly known, the real numbers can be partitioned into rational numbers and irrational numbers. Rational numbers are those which can be represented as a ratio of two integers — i.e., the set { b : a, b ∈ Z, b 6= 0} — and the irrational numbers are those which cannot b...

There is evidence that bidders fall prey to the winner’s curse because they fail to extract information from hypothetical events like winning an auction. This paper investigates experimentally whether bidders in a common value auction perform better when the requirements for this cognitive issue also denoted by contingent reasoning are relaxed, leaving all other parameters unchanged. The overal...

Most literature on time series classification assumes that the beginning and ending points of the pattern of interest can be correctly identified, both during the training phase and later deployment. In this work, we argue that this assumption is unjustified, and this has in many cases led to unwarranted optimism about the performance of the proposed algorithms. As we shall show, the task of co...

A family of orthogonal systems of irrational functions on the semi-infinite interval is introduced. The proposed orthogonal systems are based on Jacobi polynomials through an irrational coordinate transform. This family of orthogonal systems offers great flexibility to match a wide range of asymptotic behaviors at infinity. Approximation errors by the basic orthogonal projection and various oth...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between the sunk cost effect and ambiguity in investment situations. Starting from the sensemaking approach and the decision dilemma theory, our hypothesis is that a sunk cost affected decision can be “constructively" rational in ambiguous environments in the sense that decision makers have the opportunity, through actions, to enact an e...