Digit distributions are a popular tool for the detection of tax payers’ noncompliance and other fraud. In the early stage of digital analysis, Nigrini and Mittermaier (1997) made use of Benford’s Law (Benford 1938) as a natural reference distribution. A justification of that hypothesis is only known for multiplicative sequences (Schatte 1988). In applications, most of the number generating proc...

Conflicting and complex forces are shaping the diffusion patterns of the Internet and e-commerce in South Asia. Drawing upon the literature on institutional theory, we explore the drivers and inhibitors of the Internet in South Asian countries. We examine the influence of the three pillars of institutions (Scott, 1995) on the digital world of South Asia. The paper discusses how regulatory, norm...

Soil degradation has been implicated as a cause of the poor vegetation condition over much of the unimproved tussock grassland in the South Island high country and as a threat to the sustainability of extensive pastoralism (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 1991; South Island High Country Review Working Party, 1994). A key requirement for assessment of sustainability is an ability...

abstract lizards have significant roles in life cycle and are related to humans either directly or indirectly. identifying of the fauna of a region is the most necessary and the most significant biological and fundamental research in it. mazandaran province has diverse biological conditions because of its geographical location and special ecological conditions, the proximity of the sea to the m...

This study was carried out to compare the chemical composition and nutritive value of some clover species, especially common in rangelands Mediterranean region. For this purpose, species (Trifolium angustifolium, Trifolium cherleri, hybridum, lappaceum, nigrescens, pilulare, resupinatum, scabrum, spumosum tomentosum) were collected from ten different points Hatay Mustafa Kemal University campus...

? mil a Zelda, mercurial child of the hectic '20s, captured the love of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a frenzied effort to match his genius she threw herself into painting, writing and ballet before tragically ending her life in a mental hospital.