following the collapse of ussr, the usa, as a key player of the middle east region, claimed the leadership of the world unipolar system and, during the last two decades has attempted to restructure the region. to this end, the us has tried to put into practice a plan under the name the new middle east, inorder to maintain its presence and dominance over this strategic region with the aim of sec...

In this article, we have addressed the control problem of unicycle path following, using a rigidly attached target point. The initial path following problem has been transformed into a reference trajectory following problem, using saturated control laws and a geometric characterization hypothesis. This hypothesis links the curvature of the path to be followed with the target point. The proposed...

The relative-coding hypothesis of temporal discrimination asserts that humans learn to respond to the relative duration of stimuli ("short" and "long"). The most frequently used procedure to test the hypothesis is the double bisection task. In one task, participants learn that red and green are the correct comparisons following 2s (short) and 5s (long) samples respectively. In another task, par...

The Mckinnon-Shaw Hypothesis, in its’ various forms, is now thirty years old. Over that period literally hundreds of empirical studies have been completed examining the hypothesis in many different contexts. Initially, the hypothesis focused on the effects of so-called “Financial Repression” (low or negative real interest rates) on savings and investment levels in developing countries. In more ...

the concept of countervailing power is a term to describe the situation in which the market power of one side (sellers) may be balanced by the market power of another side(buyers) in a given market. the purpose of this paper is to test this hypothesis and to determine whether the market power of sellers has had a restraining influence on increases in buyer market power in iran’s large industrie...