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after the collapse of bipolar system in the world, different views and theories expressed by the scholars and thinkers about the future of the world and international system. one of them is the theory of “ the clash of civilizations” which was propounded in 1993 by the samuel huntington, the director of j.m.olin institute for strategic studies in harvard uni-versity. this theory caused some anx...

We propose a method for optimal portfolio selection using a Bayesian decision theoretic framework that addresses two major shortcomings of the Markowitz approach: the ability to handle higher moments and estimation error. We employ the skew normal distribution which has many attractive features for modeling multivariate returns. Our results suggest that it is important to incorporate higher ord...

The vegetation of Campbell Island and its offshore islets was sampled quantitatively at 140 sites. Data from the 134 sites with more than one vascular plant species were subjected to multivariate analysis. Out of a total of 140 indigenous and widespread adventive species known from the island group, 124 vascular species were recorded; 85 non-vascular cryptogams or species aggregates play a majo...

***************************************************************************************************************** ATM_ Forum/ 97-0341 ***************************************************************************************************************** SOURCE: Andrew T. Campbell, Raymond R.-F. Liao Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Telecommunications Research Columbia University, N...