Recently, Starns et al. (2008) collected source judgments for old items, which participants had claimed to be new, and found residual source discriminability depending on the old-new response bias. The finding was interpreted as evidence in favor of the multivariate signal-detection model but against the high-threshold model of source memory. According to the latter, “new” responses only follow...

mazandaran province is one of the most important agricultural areas in iran. researches findings show that the role of bank credits is really important due to the lack of available funds in agricultural sector. in this study, the relationship between allocation of agricultural bank credits of iran as professional bank section and agricultural employment was studied in the mazandaran province ba...

high intensity optical radiation can cause damage to the eye and intense radiation in the range of 770-1400 nm can cause thermal retinal damage. in the workplaces where there are high temperature sources, the workers in front of these hot  sources without bright light maybe exposed to the  intense ir radiation, thus regular measurement of these radiations seems crucial. measurement of ir radiat...

In this research genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using linear and threshold models, for reproductive traits, data from 6 large industrial dairy herd of East Azerbaijan province collected by Agriculture Jihad Organization during 10 years (2001-2010). Best linear unbiased predictions of traits breeding values were estimated using Restricted Maximum Likelihood method by WOMBAT sof...

In this research genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using linear and threshold models, for reproductive traits, data from 6 large industrial dairy herd of East Azerbaijan province collected by Agriculture Jihad Organization during 10 years (2001-2010). Best linear unbiased predictions of traits breeding values were estimated using Restricted Maximum Likelihood method by WOMBAT sof...

This paper provides evidence for a significant relation between international financial markets’ integration and output volatility. In the framework of a threshold model, it is shown empirically that this relation depends on country’s financial risk. Financial risk indicates a country’s ability to pay its official, commercial and trade debts. In countries with low financial risk, financial open...

Mozambique A Non-Parametric Extension to the Threshold Model Bjorn Van Campenhout One of the main drawbacks of current methods to measure market integration is the assumption of constant transaction costs. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric extension to the commonly used threshold models, allowing us to estimate transaction costs in a more flexible way. We illustrate the method using we...

Dynamic task allocation is an essential aspect in modelling ant behaviour. In this paper, we propose a new (abstract) model for dynamic task allocation of agents that combines a nested layered architecture with a threshold mechanism. We apply this new model to achieve flexible ant behaviour. This serves the dual purpose of validating the abstract model, and providing a concrete model for adapti...

We investigate the behavior of a threshold model for the spreading of fads and similar phenomena in society. The model is giving the fad dynamics and is intended to be confined to an underlying network structure. We investigate the whole parameter space of the fad dynamics on three types of network models. The dynamics we discover is rich and highly dependent on the underlying network structure...