the purpose of this study is to examine the possible impact of value systems on earnings management in france, tunisia and canada. cultural values include power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity and long-term orientation. the cross-cultural study uses the method of structural equations trough lisrel approach. the examination covers the period between 2003 and 2009. fin...

‎this paper presents an application of partial differential equations(pdes) for the segmentation of abdominal and thoracic aortic in cta datasets. an important challenge in reliably detecting aortic is the need to overcome problems associated with intensity inhomogeneities. level sets are part of an important class of methods that utilize partial differential equations (pdes) and have been exte...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

solving a large sparse set of linear equations is of the problems widely seen in every numerical investigation in the entire range of engineering disciplines. employing a finite element approach in solving partial derivative equations, the resulting stiffness matrices would contain many zero-valued elements. moreover, storing all these sparse matrices in a computer memory would slower the compu...

the aim of this study was to develop an optimal sustainable forest plantation based on goal programming and analytic hierarchy process (ahp) methods. this study was carried out in guilan province, north of iran. first of all, the ecological capability of the study area for plantation establishment/maintenance was evaluated based on multi-factor method and specific ecological makhdoum model by m...

in this article differential transformation method (dtms) has been used to solve neutral functional-differential equations with proportional delays. the method can simply be applied to many linear and nonlinear problems and is capable of reducing the size of computational work while still providing the series solution with fast convergence rate. exact solutions can also be obtained from the kno...

this paper is concerned with a technique for solving volterra integral equations in the reproducing kernel hilbert space. in contrast with the conventional reproducing kernel method, the gram-schmidt process is omitted here and satisfactory results are obtained.the analytical solution is represented in the form of series.an iterative method is given to obtain the approximate solution.the conver...

in this paper, we studied the numerical solution of nonlinear weakly singular volterra-fredholm integral equations by using the product integration method. also, we shall study the convergence behavior of a fully discrete version of a product integration method for numerical solution of the nonlinear volterra-fredholm integral equations. the reliability and efficiency of the proposed scheme are...

in this article, we develop the distributed order fractional hybrid differential equations (dofhdes) with linear perturbations involving the fractional riemann-liouville derivative of order $0 < q < 1$ with respect to a nonnegative density function. furthermore, an existence theorem for the fractional hybrid differential equations of distributed order is proved under the mixed $varphi$-lipschit...

in this paper, we apply the differential transform (dt) method for finding approximate solution of the system of linear and nonlinear volterra integro-differential equations with variable coefficients, especially of higher order. we also obtain an error bound for the approximate solution. since, in this method the coefficients of taylor series expansion of solution is obtained by a recurrence r...