this study is an attempt to apply the market timing andsecurity selection models to evaluate the performance of iranianmutual funds. the research shed light on the questions of ‘howsuccessful are mutual funds in earning excess returns over those of themarket?’ ‘do the excess returns during research period have anymeaningful trend for these financial intermediaries or is it the result ofthe abil...

this paper demonstrates a method to how reserve capacity and cost allocation could be determined in a pool-based and disaggregated market model. the method considers both the spinning reserve and interruptible loads as the operating reserve services. in the proposed market, generators and consumers (including participation of interruptible loads) submit offers and bids to the independent system...

15] S. Jajodia and D. Mutchler. A pessimistic consistency control algorithm for replicated les which achieves high availability. A practical implementation of the factoring algorithm for network reliability. A majority consensus approach to concurrency control for multiple copy databases. Optimal Within 20% of optimal Prob 1 54 0 Prob 2 NA NA Prob 3 54 0 Prob 4 30 24 Prob 5 NA NA Note: Entries ...

background : to date, 36 years has passed since the beginning of measles vaccination; the disease is still circulating around the world, threatening lives of human beings especially in developing countries.  in recent years, we have confronted measles in previously vaccinated adults from all over the country.   objective: to find out if there is a need for changing our routine measles vaccinati...