The recent string of accounting scandals highlights the need for bond investors to reconsider the informational assumptions underlying traditional models of default. In these models it is implicitly assumed that the information used to calibrate and run the model is publicly available. In reality, model inputs and parameters are uncertain. We develop a class of cause and effect default models b...

conclusions applying this information can be useful to policy makers and managers for planning and implementing special interventions to prevent and limit future accidental deaths. background traffic accidents are the main cause of deaths in developing countries. fatalities due to traffic accidents are assessed through a three-year time series forecast. objectives the aim of this study is to us...

iranian industries are increasingly concerned with sustainable development by controlling their impacts on environment. iranian automotive industries have began conducting environmental management within a structured management system based on iso 14001 international standard since 1997. iran khodro co. (ikco), the largest iranian automotive manufacturer, implemented ems entire the company in 2...

Guangxi Province is one of the regions more serious desertification. This paper using ENVI image processing system, according to remote sensing image interpretation target mark and image spectral characteristics, found remote sensing interpretation model of the background information of forest, shrub and grass, agricultural land, surface water, towns, roads from TM and ETM data from 1988 to 200...

The Workshop on Multi-modal Summarization for Trend information (MuST) has been encouraging researches on summarizing trends, which are an important first step of researches on technologies for supporting interactive and explorative information utilization. While MuST in the previous cycles provided the participants with a framework for encouraging researches by sharing the same research resour...

background: growth failure in children less than five years old can lead to the serious complications such as increased mortality, learning difficulties or physical disability. the aim of this study was to investigate the non-organic factors affecting the growth trend in less than two years children living in zanjan, iran.   methods: this longitudinal study was conducted on a sample of 3566 chi...

The problem of trend estimation in econometrics has had a long history, and the techniques which can be deployed have been evolving gradually over many years. The forces of evolution have been twofold. On one hand is the gradual improvement in statistical and computational techniques which has been accompanied by improvements in the processing power of computers and in the accessibility of soft...

THEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN LIBRARIES BEGINS at the crossroad where superiority, inaction, and denial become intolerable. Yet in working toward true diversity, we work without the familiar construct of a mainstream. We respond to, or ignore, repetitive critique of being too exclusive or not inclusive enough. We decide whether it is appropriate to quantify the existence of a people or to trust what ...