i Nazbanoo Farzaneh. Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, IRAN. (email: [email protected]) ii * Corresponding Author, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee Moghaddam is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (e-mail...

Omid Pournik, Seyed Moayed Alavian, and Saeid Eslami 1Medical Informatics Research Center, Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; 2Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran; 3Pharmaceutical Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. 4Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medica...

1. Departement of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran. 2. Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran 3. School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran,. 4. Department of Biotechnology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi Univer...

We investigate the implications of the new price information in the latest International Comparison Program (ICP) survey for evaluating the year 2005 exchange rate misalignment estimates. A decomposition exercise reveals that the misalignment revisions are substantially affected by the ICP price updates. Two measurement-related and four economic factors are used to explain the differences in mi...

Self-evaluations of program impact, notably subjective evaluations of the e¤ects of training, are wide-spread in both the public and the private sector – probably because self-evaluations o¤er an easy and low-cost alternative to rigorous experimental or econometric evaluations. In this paper, I analyze how subjective assessments of satisfaction with training compare to objective measures based ...

This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education over a sample of respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than employing instrumental variables procedures to estimate the causal e¤ect of parental education we identify it by exploiting the feature of the educational transmission mechanism that is responsible for its endogeneity. More...

We investigate the role of externalities in tax evasion arising from congestion of the auditing resources available to local tax authorities. The empirical analysis employs a novel method due to Graham (2008) that mitigates most of the problems that surround the identification of endogenous social effects [Manski (1993)]. Identification exploits the information contained in the variance of conc...

We have shown previously that a gene encoding a homologue to the eukaryotic dolichol-phosphate-Dmannose, protein O-D-mannosyltransferase, was required for C31 infection of Streptomyces coelicolor. Here we show that a gene encoding the homologue to dolichol-phosphate-mannose synthase is also essential for phage sensitivity. These data confirm the role of glycosylation in the phage receptor for C...

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed evidence on the relationship betw...

This paper develops a strategy for identification and estimation of complete information games that does not require a regressor that has large support, nor a parametric specification for the distribution of the unobservables. The identification result uses a non-standard but plausible condition on the unobservables: the assumption that the joint density of the unobservables of all agents is un...