This study is held in order to determine whether some Middle Eastern countries have converged EU terms of economy and politics as dimensions globalization. Existence any convergence tested via Harvey ve Leybourne (2008) linearity tests. It has been deduced that Quwait EU-27 average from the point economic globalization country also EU-15 social Similarly, Saudi Arabia EU-9 avearges socail Egypt...

confirmation of convergence hypothesis among provinces, its role in removing divergence among regions and achieving regional convergence is one of the important issues in macroeconomics. the aim of the present study is to examine absolute and conditional income convergence hypotheses among iranian provinces during the period 2000-2010 using panel data. the hypotheses are tested for the whole pr...

We present a simple nonconforming approximation of the linear two–point boundary value problem which violates patch test requirements. Nevertheless the solutions, obtained from these type of approximations, converge to the exact solution. Keywords—generalized patch test, Irons’ patch test, nonconforming finite element, convergence

We motivate and test an exemplar-theoretic view of phonetic convergence, in which convergence effects arise because exemplars just perceived in a conversation are stored in a speaker’s memory, and used subsequently in speech production. Most exemplar models assume that production targets are established using stored exemplars, taking into account their frequencyand recency-influenced level of a...

This paper presents convergence analysis of kernel-based quadrature rules in misspecified settings, focusing on deterministic quadrature in Sobolev spaces. In particular, we deal with misspecified settings where a test integrand is less smooth than a Sobolev RKHS based on which a quadrature rule is constructed. We provide convergence guarantees based on two different assumptions on a quadrature...

Convergent evolution of similar phenotypic features in similar environmental contexts has long been taken as evidence of adaptation. Nonetheless, recent conceptual and empirical developments in many fields have led to a proliferation of ideas about the relationship between convergence and adaptation. Despite criticism from some systematically minded biologists, I reaffirm that convergence in ta...

In this article we have developed third order exact finite difference method for the numerical solution of third order boundary value problems. We constructed our numerical technique without change in structure of the coefficient matrix of the second-order method in cite{Pand}. We have discussed convergence of the proposed method. Numerical experiments on model test problems approves the simply...

Toothed whales and two groups of bats independently acquired echolocation, the ability to locate and identify objects by reflected sound. Echolocation requires physiologically complex and coordinated vocal, auditory, and neural functions, but the molecular basis of the capacity for echolocation is not well understood. A recent study suggested that convergent amino acid substitutions widespread ...

The epidemiological transition has provided the theoretical background for the expectation of convergence in mortality patterns. We formally test and reject the convergence hypothesis for a sample of industrialized countries in the period from 1960 to 2008. After a period of convergence in the decade of 1960 there followed a sustained process of divergence with a pronounced increase at the end ...