Convergence hypothesis is one of the results of neoclassical growth model, which has been examined recently. This hypothesis has two forms of absolute and conditional Beta-convergence and implies that regions with lower per capita output have higher per capita growth rates. Since there is no data for regional GDP in Iran, there has been n study to test convergence hypothesis in Iran. Our main c...

Article history: This paper tests for beta-convergence and sigma-convergence in the corporate governancemodels, using a samAccepted 12 July 2012 ple of corporate governance ratings for 198 European corporations listed on the FTSE Eurofirst 300 index. A piecewise linear regression is deployed to select amodel and the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator JEL classification: is also applied...

The genotypic variance within, sigma 2w, and between, sigma 2b, random mating populations and rates and times for convergence to equilibrium values from different founder populations are formulated for an additive genetic model with an arbitrary number of alleles k, number of loci m, population size N, and mutation rate u, with unequal mutation rates for alleles. As a base of reference, the add...

Abstract In this paper, we introduce the notions of regularly invariant convergence, strongly p -strongly $(\mathcal{I}_{\sigma },\mathcal{I}^{\sigma }_{2})$ ( I σ , 2 ) -co...

This paper investigates an online gradient method with innerpenalty for a novel feed forward network it is called pi-sigma network. This network utilizes product cells as the output units to indirectly incorporate the capabilities of higherorder networks while using a fewer number of weights and processing units. Penalty term methods have been widely used to improve the generalization performan...