The physiological process of germination depends on several environmental factors such as temperature, water potential, light, nutrients and smoke. Water and temperature are determinant factors for seed germination. Both factors can, separately or jointly, affect the germination percentage and germination rate. The effect of temperature on germination and water potential on germination canoften...

nowadays project management is a key component in introductory operations management. the educators and the researchers in these areas advocate representing a project as a network and applying the solution approaches for network models to them to assist project managers to monitor their completion. in this paper, we evaluated project’s completion time utilizing the q-learning algorithm. so the ...

Objectives: The present research aimed to determine the effect of time-use training on the quality of time management in the mothers of girls with Intellectual Disability (ID) attending special schools.  Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a control group design. In total, 80 mothers (40 mothers in the intervention group & 40 mothers in the control group) of children with ID (age...

We study the contemporaneous and intertemporal partial relation between T-bond pricing and changes in equity risk, as measured by the implied volatility from equity-index options. Our 1992 to 2007 sample is attractive because of the modest inflation risk and sizable time-series variability in equity risk. Over 1997 to 2007 and for inclusive one-half and one-quarter subperiods, we find that the ...

Governments can have large e ects on investment by raising policy risks and uncertainty. This paper estimates their e ects by studying the famous English East India Company. It had di cult relations with some English governments and positive relations with others. This translated into either hostile or friendly policies. New time-series data on the Company's shipping and port capacity are used ...

In this paper, we model and forecast Australian domestic tourism demand. We use a regression framework to estimate important economic relationships for domestic tourism demand. We also identify the impact of world events such as the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Bali bombings on Australian domestic tourism. To explore the time series nature of the data, we use innovation state space models ...