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P-168: Evaluating The Raelationship between Infertility and Nutrition

Background: Infertility is an emotional crisis with physical economic and psychosocial challenge because it interferes with all personal life aspects. Infertility can be due to many reasons Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this including issues of genetics, physiology, nutrition and management, Consuming vegetable protein (soy) instead of carbohydrates or animal protein is associat...

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What Is the Probability Your Vote Will Make a Difference?

One of the motivations for voting is that one vote can make a difference. In a presidential election, the probability that your vote is decisive is equal to the probability that your state is necessary for an electoral college win, times the probability the vote in your state is tied in that event. We computed these probabilities a week before the 2008 presidential election, using state-by-stat...

Multi-commodity Multimodal Splittable Logistics Hub Location Problem with Stochastic Demands

This study presents a multimodal hub location problem which has the capability to split commodities by limited-capacity hubs and transportation systems, based on the assumption that demands are stochastic for multi-commodity network flows. In the real world cases, demands are random over the planning horizon and those which are partially fulfilled, are lost. Thus, the present study handles dema...

رویکردی به ارزیابی سرمایه اجتماعی در اقتصاد ایران

Economic literature in 1990s notifies that the larger a nation’s social capital is, the more fortunate and wealthier the nation would be. Social capital or social part of production function is a nation’s historical heritage that aids the civil society in solving its problems through confidence factor. Civil society institutions encourage the option of cooperation strategy by means of informati...

Extended Abstract for Second-Chance Offers

eBay has become one of the most important market places for retail goods worldwide. Yet important aspects of the strategic bidding incentives in eBay auctions remain unexplored. eBay’s main sales mechanism is closely related to a second-price auction, which has been extensively studied. There are, however important difference to a standard second-price auction. In particular, the eBay auction a...