in order to study the signs of œstrus in the west african dwarf goat, 28 non pregnant females younger than 24 months of age were used. most of them (94.7%) had waggled the tail during heat. the frequency of micturition was higher in the presence of the male. the swelling of the vulva was observed in 68.4% of goats in heat. the cervico-vaginal mucus was significantly (p≤0.05) abundant and elasti...

We test whether commercial property performance, proxied by real estate investment trust (REIT) prices, can inform us about bank equity prices. Using data from the United States, euro area and Japan, we show that REIT prices predict Furthermore, a “commercial factor” adds significant explanatory power to both CAPM 3-factor Fama-French model. At same time, quantile regressions this factor become...

This paper reviews significant aspects of the work Trigant Burrow (1875–1950), an early psychoanalyst who, while less well known than many his contemporaries, was, as a number commentators have argued, ahead time. article discusses four areas theory: preconscious, nest instinct, and love subject; primary unity, intersubjectivity, “I” persona; social images, neurosis, unconscious; and, finally, ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) can present heterogeneously, with several subtypes recognized, including dysexecutive AD. One way to identify people with dysexecutive AD is to consider the difference between memory and executive functioning, which we refer to as the executive prominent/memory prominent spectrum. We aimed to determine if this spectrum was heritable. We used neuropsychologi...

This paper analyzes the influence key scientists have in the development of a science and technology system. In particular, this work appraises the influence that star scientists have on the productivity and impact of young faculty, as well as on the likelihood that these young researchers become a leading personality in science. Our analysis confirms previous results that eminent scientist hav...

The perceived prominence of three parts of speech (POS), nouns, verbs and adjectives, in three utterance positions, initial, intermediate and final, were examined in a perceptual experiment to see whether previously observed reductions in prominence of intermediate items were the result of positional effects or because words in this position belonged to the same POS, namely verbs. It was found ...

based on a general rule in civil liability, external causes limits or excludes the liability of defendant. however, the question is that whether it is possible to applied the general rule when there are compulsory liability insurances? this paper is intended to study the subject-matter regarding traffic accidents (as one of the anticipated cases of compulsory insurances) in iranian and french l...

Despite its very high relevance for human communication current spoken dialog systems usually ignore the prosodic variations in the speech signal [1, 2, 3]. In [4] it was shown that speakers use prosodic cues to highlight corrections in a dialog with a machine and that these can be detected using prosodic cues. We extended this idea in [5] to the audio-visual discrimination of prominent from no...

1. More than a decade of shark predation on nursing and newly weaned pups of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi) has significantly contributed to a steep decline of the French Frigate Shoals (FFS)