the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics of members of technical and engineering companies and agricultural advisory services on their willingness toward entrepreneurial activities. entrepreneurship development plays an important role in job creation process which can eventually lead to the achievement of sustainable development goals in ag...

This paper employs maximum likelihood methods to analyze the increase in pious bequests in early modern French wills. Other historians have described the rise of pious bequests in wills, but no one has used multivariate statistical methods to explain the phenomenon. It turns out that at any level of wealth pious bequests rose over the course of the seventeenth century and that the bequests. wer...

Following the first enactment of living will legislation in California in 1976 the majority of the states of the USA have now passed similar laws. However, flaws have been identified in the way they work in practice and many states are considering reviewing their legislation. In Britain there is no legislation but the subject is currently commanding considerable interest. This paper assesses th...

1 Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Brain Research Institute Monash Sunway, Monash University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 2 Department of Psychology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, 3 Laboratory of Integrative Brain Sciences, Department of Biology, Center for Medical Life Science, Waseda University...

It is found that the position of the first minimum of the Wills-Harrison effective pair potential in the liquid Ni very slightly depends on the probability that not only the diagonal d-d couplings between two atoms are possible. This result denotes that the account of the non-diagonal couplings is not such important for the liquid Ni as for both the liquid Fe and liquid Co.

R. Doubble, S. M. Hayden, ∗ Pengcheng Dai, 3 H. A. Mook, J. R. Thompson, 3 and C. D. Frost H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Ave., Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, UK ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilt...

We prove that the neighborly cubical polytopes studied by Günter M. Ziegler and the first author [14] arise as a special case of the neighborly cubical spheres constructed by Babson, Billera, and Chan [4]. By relating the two constructions we obtain an explicit description of a non-polytopal neighborly cubical sphere and, further, a new proof of the fact that the cubical equivelar surfaces of M...