the present study was conducted to provide a detailed descriptive osteology of barbus cyri from southern caspian sea for the first time and comparing it with those of b. lacerta from the tigris and urmia lake basins. for this purpose, twelve specimens of b. cyri were collected from safidrud river using electrofishing device and fixed in 10% buffered formalin. then, the specimens were cleared an...

Skeleton can be viewed as a compact shape representation in that the shape can be completely reconstructed form the skeleton. We present a novel method for skeleton pruning that is based on this fundamental skeleton property. We iteratively remove skeleton end braches with smallest relevance for shape reconstruction. The relevance of branches is measured as their contribution to shape reconstru...

this paper studies the semantic contribution of –e suffix based on lieber (2004). this theory using seven semantic features and a principle called coindexation principle studies the semantic contribution of lexical items and their function in compounding, derivation and conversion. in this theory each lexical item even affixes have a semantic skeleton and a semantic body. each affix has to have...

Skeleton extraction is a very challenging subject, and has an important application value. Because of the ambiguity and complexity of cerebrovascular image, the skeleton gained by conventional skeleton algorithms is discontinuous. This paper proposes a cerebrovascular image skeleton extraction algorithm based on topological nodes. This algorithm first determines the important topological nodes ...

An MV-convergence is a convergence on an MV-algebra which renders the operations continuous. We show that such convergences on a given MV-algebra A are exactly the restrictions of the bounded `-convergences on the abelian `-group in which A appears as the unit interval. Thus the theory of `-convergence and Cauchy structures transfers to MV-algebras. We outline the general theory, and then apply...

We derive empirical tests for the mean-variance efficiency of a given portfolio. The tests can be computed using straightforward linear programming, and they give substantial flexibility in modeling the investment possibilities. Using this test, we can reject the hypothesis that the S&P 500 index is mean-variance efficient relative to the 25 Fama and French (1993) equity portfolios. Mean-varian...

An MV-pair is a pair (B, G), where B is a Boolean algebra and G is a subgroup of the automorphism group of B satisfying certain condition. Recently it was proved by one of the authors that for an MV-pair (B, G), ∼G is an effect-algebraic congruence and B/ ∼G is an MV-algebra. Moreover, every MV-algebra M can be represented by an MV-pair in this way. In this paper we show that one can define a s...