This paper explains the implications of a mathematical theory (by the same authors) of holes in fractals and their relation to dimension for measurements. The novelty of our approach is to consider the fractal measure on a set rather than just the support of that measure. This should take into account in a more precise way the distribution of data points in measured sets, such as the distributi...

Performance appraisal is a process which help shareholders make informed and optimal investment decisions. In recent decades, a long stream of research has devoted particular attention to the importance and impact of financial decisions on firm performance and firm value. The present study thus is primarily concerned with investigating the association between free cash flow and institutional ow...

introduction: drought is a natural and recurrent feature of climate. the characterizations of it may change under the effect of climate change in future periods. during the last few decades a number of different indices have been developed to quantify drought probabilities. droughts are caused by disruptions to an expected precipitation pattern and can be intensified by unusually high temperatu...

the main aim of the present study was to map of urmia lake water surface diminishing rates over a long-term period, and demonstrating the most recent surface of emerged salty alluvial plains. for this purpose, landsat tm, etm+ and oli imageries, observing from 1984 to 2015, were progressively processed to generate most of the thematic models in tempo-spatial context. all multi-date satellite da...

It has become almost a rule that the birth of scientific psychiatry and what we today term clinical psychology took place in the short period between the last decade of the XVIII century and the 1820s. Everything that happened before that period-every description, diagnosis, and therapy-has been considered "pre-scientific," outdated, in a way worthless. In this paper, however, I am providing th...

Wastewater from the fertiliser industry is characterised by high chloride concentration, normally varying between 60 and 76 g/ l. Experiments with biological denitrification were performed in laboratory-scale ‘fill and draw’ reactors with synthetic fertiliser wastewater, with chloride concentrations up to 96.7 g Cl/l at 37°C; the pH was controlled in the range 6.8 to 7.2. Potassium acetate was ...

The main aim of the present study was to map of Urmia Lake water surface diminishing rates over a long-term period, and demonstrating the most recent surface of emerged salty alluvial plains. For this purpose, Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI imageries, observing from 1984 to 2015, were progressively processed to generate most of the thematic models in tempo-spatial context. All multi-date satellite da...

This article presents a novel artificial neural network technique for merging multi-sensor satellite data. Stacked neural networks (NNs) are used to learn the temporal and spatial drifts between data from different satellite sensors. The resulting NNs are then used to sequentially adjust the satellite data for the creation of a global homogeneous long-term climate data record. The proposed tech...