with respect to the physical and mechanical limited qualities of bitumen, it benefits from certain specificability in application and its life service. polymers as the most important modifiers of bitumen are applied to it in order to improve its functional efficiency. among various polymers, styrene-butadiene- styrene (sbs) is the best modifier of the bitumen. in this work, sbs polymer as one o...

i.p.s. hypergroups are canonical hypergroups such that$[forall(a,x),a+xni x]longrightarrow[a+x=x].$i.p.s. hypergroups were investigated in [1], [2], [3], [4] and it was proved thatif the order is less than 9, they are strongly canonical (see [13]). in this paperwe obtain the sequences of fuzzy sets and of join spaces determined (see [8])by all i.p.s. hypergroups of order seven. for the meaning ...

In this paper, we investigate questions involving the impact of a multitude of covariates and their interactions on the scores of a comprehensive exit exam from 121 undergraduate students in Texas State University via a hierarchical Bayesian mixture model. The model uses a mixture of Beta distributions, inflated for the purposes of modeling the behavior of students who are no-shows for the exam...

The prediction of students’ achievement in algebra in eighth and ninth grades has become a research interest for practical issues of placement. A group of simple, easily accessible variables was used to predict student performance in algebra after completion of eighth grade. The three variables of school type, grade level, and previous year mathematics performance explained 54% of the variance ...