Although, grapevines do not have a high chilling requirement, its fulfillment is critical for normal development of the vines. In tropical and subtropical regions such as Farrashband, in the south of Iran, there is no adequate winter chilling to release bud dormancy in grapevines. So it is necessary to consider the effect of chemical dormancy–breaking agents on bud dormancy. In the present rese...

We examine the interplay between social norms and the enforcement of laws. Agents choose a behavior (e.g., tax evasion, production of low-quality products, corruption, harassing behavior, substance abuse, etc.) and then are randomly matched with another agent. There are complementarities in behaviors so that an agent’s payoff decreases with the mismatch between her behavior and her partner’s, a...

ahmad matar – iraqi satirical poet – attempted to save the arabic governments from imperialistic yoke who tried to arrogate nations’ freedom. his poetic language has sensible characteristics which the poet applies them in order to invite people to freedom and liberty. norm breaking is one of his poetry’s features. the present article tries to survey the vocal norm breaking – including rhyme, rh...

crust breaking of saffron is an important operation at the first stage of growth that should be accuratly operated as in this period sprouts of saffron rise up to near the soil surface. after primary irrigation, farmers soften the soil surface by means of different cultivation implements, which enables saffron flowers arise from subsurfarce. this research was conducted to compare tillage implem...

We consider iterative voting models and position them within the general framework of acyclic games and game forms. More specifically, we classify convergence results based on the underlying assumptions on the agent scheduler (the order of players) and the action scheduler (which better-reply is played). Our main technical result is providing a complete picture of conditions for acyclicity in s...

A synthetic pentasaccharide, containing an intact antithrombin III (ATIII) binding site that is in clinical studies a specific antifactor Xa agent, serves as a substrate for a heparin lyase (heparinase I, EC 4.2.2.7) from Flavobacterium heparinum. Heparinase I, currently being assessed as a heparin reversal agent, also reverses the antifactor Xa activity of this synthetic pentasaccharide by bre...

agent technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations due to its capability to automatically modify themselves in response to changes in their operating environment. multi agent system (mas) approach is the construction of a complex system as a se...

Fundamental to the operation of multi-agent systems is the concept of cooperation between individual agents by which the overall system exhibits signiicantly greater functionality than the individual components. Not only is it important to understand the structure of such relationships in multi-agent systems, it is also important to understand the ways in which cooperative relationships come ab...

We consider a family of population game dynamics known as Best Experienced Payoff Dynamics. Under these dynamics, when agents are given the opportunity to revise their strategy, they test some possible strategies fixed number times. Crucially, each strategy is tested against new randomly drawn set opponents. The revising agent then chooses whose total payoff was highest in test, breaking ties a...