Development of downstream operations in the Iran's petroleum industry has always been considered as a necessity in to create more value-added. One of ways to accomplish the misson, especially in the current situation, is exploiting the capacity of petroleum startups. Considering that these companies need to be valued for financing, and since the traditional valuation methods do not provide effi...

Biological invasions cause many impacts that differ widely in how they are perceived. We argue that many conflicts in the valuation of the impacts of alien species are attributable to differences in the framing of the issue and implicit assumptions—such conflicts are often not acknowledged. We present 13 principles that can help guide valuation and therefore inform the management of alien speci...

In this paper, we present a decision support system which is based on the transferable belief model(TBM), a model that quantiies someone's degree of belief using belief functions. The system performs evidential reasoning and decision making by integrating an evidential system for belief function propagation and a valuation-based system for Bayesian decision analysis. The two subsystems are both...

in this paper we define a new type of rings ”almost powerhermitian rings” (a generalization of almost hermitian rings) and establish several sufficient conditions over a ring r such that, every regular matrix admits a diagonal power-reduction.

In recent years there has been a rapid move towards the adoption of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) for basic residential valuations for mortgage security purposes. In Australia several commercial organisations now offer such residential valuations, but very little is known about the accuracy of these. While the accuracy of commercial models is almost impossible to measure, one problem is tha...

A necessary and sufficient condition for dominant strategy implementability when preferences are quasilinear is that, for every individual i and every choice of the types of the other individuals, all k-cycles in i’s allocation graph have nonnegative length for every integer k ≥ 2. Saks and Yu (Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’05), 2005, 286–293) have shown that ...

The dynamic inconsistency of preference is well documented in behavioral research, but its basis remains controversial. In this article, we summarize recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) work in the domain of intertemporal choice, specifically considering evidence bearing on the hypothesis that delay discounting in humans is determined by competition between an evolutionarily old...

The present article argues that the idea of morphology-driven syntax carries over to first-language acquisition. Morphology encodes properties of functional categories, i.e. particular features and feature values that must be set according to the target (adult) language during the acquisition process. In agreement with previous findings concerning the acquisition of functional categories in the...

This paper studies the Ratliff-Rush closure of ideals in integral domains. By definition, the Ratliff-Rush closure of an ideal I of a domain R is the ideal given by Ĩ := S (I :R I ) and an ideal I is said to be a Ratliff-Rush ideal if Ĩ = I. We completely characterize integrally closed domains in which every ideal is a Ratliff-Rush ideal and we give a complete description of the Ratliff-Rush cl...