abstract water retention curve (wrc) is a fundamental property of soil. it is used to evaluate available water, permeability, drainage and movement of solutes. despite numerous studies on wrc of soils abroad, no local study has been carried out on charmahal-va-bakhtiari soils. the objective of this study was to compare the quality of fitting of several wrc models to lordegan soils and to select...

an earthquake was happened on 23 october 2011 in van, turkey (mw7.2) at the eastern most area of anatolian plateau and in the neighborhood of iranian border (west azerbaijan province). the study was performed based on field and office observations and has been focused on the process of disaster management in turkey after the 23 october 2011 earthquake. we surveyed the quake from the view point ...

We investigate a monetary regime with persistent, near-zero policy interest rates (“permazero”). This regime was implemented in 1683 by a prominent early central bank, the Bank of Amsterdam (“Bank”). Under this regime, the Bank’s policy rate remained at one-half percent for over a century. We employ archival data to reconstruct the Bank’s activities over a subsample of this regime (1736-1791) f...

chondroectodermal dysplasia (ellis-van creveld syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive congenital abnormality. this syndrome is characterized by a spectrum of clinical findings, among which chondrodystrophy, polydactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and congenital cardiac anomalies are the most common. it is imperative to not overlook the cardiac complications in patients with this syndrome during den...

————— The author is affiliated with the Department of Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I wish to thank Christel Symens for conducting some of the experiments. Correspondence concerning this article should be adressed to: Frank Van Overwalle, Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel. E-mail: [email protected] DISCOUNTING AND AUGMENTA...