Third and Fourth Grades

Third (and Fourth) Class Conditions

Third class conditional sentences, a very frequent type of conditional sentence, are identified and characterized by their use of the subjunctive mood in the protasis. The subjunctive indicates potentiality, contingency, or simple futurity. It is the condition which points to a future eventuality. The common notion that it indicates a degree of probability is examined by inductive study of all ...

The Fourth Amendment Third-Party Doctrine

In the 1970s, the Supreme Court handed down Smith v. Maryland and United States v. Miller, two of the most important Fourth Amendment decisions of the 20 th century. In these cases, the Court held that people are not entitled to an expectation of privacy in information they voluntarily provide to third parties. This legal proposition, known as the third-party doctrine, permits the government ac...

Third-order Efficiency Implies Fourth-order Efficiency

Takeuchi [37], Takeuchi and Akahira [38] and Pfanzagl [27] among others proved that any rst-order ecient estimators are second-order ecient. Many authors e.g., Ghosh [15], have conjectured that any third-order ecient estimators are fourth-order ecient. Based on concentration probability of estimators about a true parameter, this paper gives a positive answer to the conjecture in a curved expone...

Conceptual changes of Mihrab, emphasizing on third and fourth century AH sources

Mihrab existed before Islam. This word became one of the main components of Islamic mosques after the Islamic conquest. Structure and function changes of Mihrab during these two periods could be considered in various methods. Considering conceptual changes is one of the historical studies methods. This article aims to investigate a part of conceptual changes that reflects Mihrab’s structural an...

Agriculture in the economic development of iran:lessons from the third and fourth plants