background: a cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the gaza strip, palestine.  materials and methods: a 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the gaza strip. another 30-item questionnaire was completed by university students...

when the past observations are correlated with future observations and their correlation is significant, the time series has long memory. in this paper the contagion effect of volatilities, with consideration of long-run effect, is investigated. the basic model is bekk (1, 1) and fbekk (1,d,1), model extended long-run memory parameter (d) is considered and estimated. furthermore in this paper p...

 Background: A cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the Gaza strip, Palestine.  Materials and methods: A 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the Gaza strip. Another 30-item questionnaire was completed by unive...

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to...