Each dot represents one company as the intersection of its output (X) and its costs (Y). The solid line (OLS) represents the “Ordinary Least Squares” regression line, which defines the average or expected value of Y (costs) for each value of X (output). It is defined by the intercept, a, and the gradient, b. Without delving into the details of the technique, it amounts to “drawing a line throug...

knowing that in distribution of khoms according to quran and imamid fiqh three portions out of six relates to needy sayyids so called bani hashim, the question is that are the hashimis who their mothers are sayyide - with non - sayyid father - deserved for khoms? as we know, mother-related children are legitimate, and the same as father-related ones, and there is no difference between them acco...

from the very beginning, the political fiqh could not play an efficient role in the social arena. but, now the question is whether the political fiqh can satisfy all the individual, social, spiritual, political, economical, judiciary, and international needs of the time. some have considered most affairs and issues related to the state as reasonable, and as a result, not related to fiqh and inf...

The PropBank project is creating a corpus of text annotated with information about basic semantic propositions. PropBank I (Kingsbury & Palmer, 2002) added a layer of predicateargument information, or semantic roles, to the syntactic structures of the English Penn Treebank. This paper presents an overview of the second phase of PropBank Annotation, PropBank II, which is being applied to English...