The task before me is to speak of the evolution during the last few decades of the branch of physical chemistry which treats of the intimate mechanism of chemical reactions. The nature of the present occasion seems to call for a survey taken from a rather more personal point of view than is normally desirable or proper. Since the Swedish Academy of Sciences has done me the great honour of bring...

the one-dimensional cutting stock problem, has so many applications in lots of industrial processes and during the past few years has attracted so many researchers’ attention all over the world. in this paper a meta-heuristic method based on aco is presented to solve this problem. in this algorithm, based on designed probabilistic laws, artificial ants do select various cuts and then select the...

the study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in sri lanka. as a developing country, sri lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. there is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

■ Abstract This article treats the analysis of “time-series–cross-section” (TSCS) data, which has become popular in the empirical analysis of comparative politics and international relations (IR). Such data consist of repeated observations on a series of fixed (nonsampled) units, where the units are of interest in themselves. An example of TSCS data is the post–World War II annual observations ...

during the past few years, the iranian system of education and research in law has received severe changes, which have seriously damaged this system, and consequently have led to the decline of the iranian legal system. some such changes are not limited to law; rather, they are present in other fields of human sciences. this can be partially due to university instructors (e.g., how they are rec...