Abstract The Fairlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM) family has been investigated in detail for various continuous marginals such as Cauchy, normal, exponential, gamma, Weibull, lognormal and others. It has been a popular model for the bivariate distribution with mild dependence. However, bivariate FGM’s with continuous marginals on a bounded support discussed in the literature are only those with uni...

Abstract We give some adequate extension, in the framework of a general Lévy process, of our previous construction of processes with one-dimensional martingale marginals, done originally in the set-up of Brownian motion. The Lévy process framework allows us to streamline our previous arguments, as well as to reach a larger class of such processes, even in the Brownian case. We give some illustr...

HANDLING human chromosomes is my métier. I meric constrictions). This pivotal discovery in a cell culture laboratory on the Gulf Coast of Texas in the early realized that long ago; however, preparing an article for Perspectives led me to ask myself how this 1950s—that immersion of mitotic cells in a hypotonic medium will make the chromosomes suitable for microcame to be. I, like others who took...

Since the advent of Islamic Revolution in 1979 and due to foreign exchange controls by the Central Bank of Iran, the black market value of the Iranian rial had declined substantially as compared to its official value. In several articles published in professional journals I have first identified factors which has caused the rial to decline. I have then investigated the impact on Iranian economy...

In this paper we consider the class of simple graphs defined by excluding, as induced subgraphs, even holes (i.e., chordless cycles of even length) and diamonds (i.e., a graph obtained from a clique of size 4 by removing an edge). We say that such graphs are (evenhole, diamond)-free. For this class of graphs we first obtain a decomposition theorem, using clique cutsets, bisimplicial cutsets (wh...

In this article, we present a new analysis of what is involved when individuals undergo significant public humiliation. We describe the structure of humiliation-that is, the factors that, taken collectively, render certain life events and circumstances humiliating; the most common destructive consequences of being subjected to them; and several personality factors that, when present, can serve ...

We prove Baire’s theorem and its standard consequences: The uniform boundedness principle, the open mapping theorem, and the closed graph theorem.