Summary: Beliefs, social rules, and food taboos influence the emotions we feel about food, determining our attitudes consumption behaviors. The more a product represents values considered important to individuals, greater chance of being chosen for consumption. This article aimed investigate levels zoophagy sarcophagy propose an index understand consumers' towards beef. Three hundred eighty-fiv...

We develop a novel Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method that exploits hierarchy of models increasing complexity to efficiently generate samples from an unnormalized target distribution. Broadly, the rewrites multilevel MCMC approach Dodwell et al. [SIAM/ASA J. Un-certain. Quantif., 3 (2015), pp. 1075–1108] in terms delayed acceptance Christen and Fox [J. Comput. Graph. Statist., 14 (2005), 79...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of implementing operating budgeting in shiraz municipality. method: the population of this study was consisted of four groups of individuals who were aware of the various phases of budgeting in shiraz municipality including: (1) senior managers and administrative and financial assistants, (2) financial managers along with ac...

patients and methods sixty children aged between 2 and 12 years, and scheduled for on-pump surgery due to a congenital heart disease were randomly assigned into two groups. oral midazolam (0.5 mg/kg up to 15 mg per patient) and dexmedetomidine (2 µg/kg) were administered 45 minutes pre-anesthesia. children’s anxiety, mask acceptance behavior, hemodynamic measures, and cardiopulmonary outcomes w...

in acceptance-sampling plans, the items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. if the number of nonconforming items in sample is equal zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be applied for the second sample. in this paper, a mathematical model is developed to design sing...