Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (denoted here by rs) is a nonparametric (distribution-free) rank statistic proposed by Charles Spearman as a measure of the strength of the associations between two variables. It is a measure of a monotone association that is used when the distribution of the data makes Pearson’s correlation coefficient undesirable or misleading. Spearman’s coefficient is...

Although it seems that ethics and religion should be related, past research suggests mixed conclusions on the relationship. We argue that such mixed results are mostly due to methodological and conceptual limitations. We develop hypotheses linking Cornwall et al. s (1986, Review of Religious Research, 27(3): 266–244) religious components to individuals willingness to justify ethically suspect b...

Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh is considered one of the most important and influential personalities in the religious-social life of contemporary Iran. He began his cultural activities writing dramas and criticizing the religious-social situation of the society he lived in. He said that this resembled Protestantism. In addition to this, he also dealt theoretically with the criticism of religion and...

Computing correspondences between pairs of images is fundamental to all structures from motion algorithms. Correlation is a popular method to estimate similarity between patches of images. In the standard formulation, the correlation function uses only one feature such as the gray level values of a small neighbourhood. Research has shown that different features—such as colour, edge strength, co...

This study looks at three primary schools which have been successful in integrating ICT into the teaching and learning process. It confirms that a range of organisational features are correlated with successful implementation (eg, a sound learning environment, headteacher commitment, good forward planning etc) and goes on to argue that staff commitment plays a pivotal role in the process. This ...

In spite of its simplicity, the popular One Factor Gaussian Copula model remains the market standard for the valuation of CDO tranches and n-th to default. It suffers however from well-know weaknesses, mainly due to the tail behavior of the Normal distribution (namely : the tails are too light, and there is no tail dependence, whatever is the copula correlation). Alternative models have been pr...

In this thesis, the author concentrates on marine accident frequency models and on the analytical estimation of accident frequency in the Gulf of Finland. The Gulf of Finland is a sensitive sea area and a part of Baltic Sea. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of 2008 is used in the calculations of ship-ship collision and grounding frequency. In addition, an estimate of collision frequen...

Charles Taylor es comúnmente identificado como uno de los padres fundadores del comunitarismo teórico, pero tal identificación no da cuenta la amplitud pensamiento filósofo canadiense. A través este trabajo investigación pretendemos articular filosofía partiendo proyecto filosófico que explícitamente inicia en sus primeros trabajos, a saber, configuración una antropología filosófica, cual abord...