predatory damsel bug, nabis pseudoferus remane has a high density in the alfalfa fields and feeds on different types of prey. in this study, biological properties and life table statistics of n. pseudoferus by feeding on melon aphids have been determined under controlled conditions (at 25±1˚c, 60±10% relative humidity and under a photoperiod of 16h light/ 8h dark). data analysis carried out bas...

This paper has three parts. The first considers the various methods used by economic experts to measure worklife expectancy for purposes of determining damages for loss of earning capacity in personal injury cases or loss of financial support in wrongful death actions. Based on surveys of members of the National Association of Forensic Economics, the predominant method is use of Markov process ...

Despite its widespread use, the Coale–Demeny model life table system does not capture the extensive variation in age-specific mortality patterns observed in contemporary populations, particularly those of the countries of Eastern Europe and populations affected by HIV/AIDS. Although relational mortality models, such as the Brass logit system, can identify these variations, these models show sys...

In this paper, we recommend and promote global standards of the e-Trade process on the basis of ebXML & web services. For the ebXML Frameworkbased e-Trade to be facilitated, it is urgent for each country to implement and use national ebXML registry and standardize electronic documents, electronic catalog and electronic payment. In UNCEFACT, ebXML-based UN Central Registry & Repository is in the...

In this paper we summarize the main parts of the first exit time theory developed in connection to the life table data and the resulting theoretical and applied issues. Several new tools arise from the development of this theory and especially the Health State Function and some important characteristics of this function. Special attention has being done in the presentation of the health state f...

Misspelled words have a direct impact on the final quality obtained by Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems as the input becomes noisy and unpredictable. This paper presents some improvement strategies for translating real-life noisy input. The proposed strategies are based on a preprocessing step consisting in a character-based translator (MT) from noisy into cleaned text. The use of ...