The number of individual RSD applications received by UNHCR offices worldwide nearly doubled from 1997 to 2001, while UNHCR's RSD operations have been criticized for failing to implement basic standards of procedural fairness. Yet, although there is some literature critiquing how UNHCR determines refugee status, there is little literature examining whether UNHCR should do so, and if it should, ...

We continue to formalize the concept of the Generalized Full Addition and Subtraction circuits (GFAs), define the structures of calculation units for the Redundant Signed Digit (RSD) operations, then prove its stability of the calculations. Generally, one-bit binary full adder assumes positive weights to all of its three binary inputs and two outputs. We define the circuit structure of two-type...

l'humour est une notion complexe dont le contenu, plus que sa définition, est diversement apprécié d'une culture à l'autre, d'une région à une autre, d'un point de vue à un autre, à tel point que ce qui est considéré par certains comme de l'humour, peut être considéré par les autres comme une méchante moquerie ou une insulte. il est généralement utilisé comme une f...

Background and objective: The role of aldosterone is well studied in the patients with heart failure (HF) and acute myocardial infarction (MI). But little data is available about the level of aldosterone in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). This study was designed to evaluate whether this relation is exist or not. Methods: The study population consisted of 94 subjects aged 40-69 year...

Recently there has been an extensive study on Relative Semi-Dynamical Systems (RSD-Systems). In this paper, we explore some topological properties of RSD-systems. Here, in particular, minimal RSD-systems are characterized and transitive homeomorphisms are investigated. Moreover, α-level relative topological entropy is extended to RSD-systems. Finally, as a computational example, we develop an R...

Preliminaries • A social decision scheme (SDS) is a function that maps a preference profile to a lottery over the alternatives. Formally, an SDS is a function f : RFN → ∆(A). • An SDS is majoritarian if it only depends on the (unweighted) 
 majority comparisons between alternatives. • We compare lotteries using stochastic dominance (SD). A lottery p is preferred to another lottery q if the expe...

Linearity range (μg/ml) 2.5-15 1-3 2.5-15 1-3 Correlation coefficient (r) 0.999 0.997 0.999 0.997 0.999 0.997 0.998 0.999 Intercept 0.00195 0.00867 0.00195 0.00867 0.00245 0.00951 0.00329 0.00375 Slope 0.0607 0.0508 0.0607 0.0508 0.0605 0.0543 0.0572 0.0698 Accuracy (%) 98.8-102 98.2-98.8 97.5-99.5 100.2-100.9 Repeatability (RSD) 0.472 0.0058 0.467 0.0051 % Recovery 98.5±1.8 102±0.3 99.5±1.8 10...