As the companies are more and more in media’s focus, there is a notable influence of media news on investment decisions. Our analysis relates the volume of positive or negative news in key newspapers with the evolution of the share prices of four main companies listed in the Bucharest Stock Exchange. A series of regression models helps us distinguish between the company-related variables which ...

Healthy professional one-upmanship is exemplified in Philippa Garety's position as a professor of clinical psychology, a clinical director and a joint leader of a psychosis clinical academic group. Julia Bland sought to discover whether psychiatrists have anything substantial to offer that psychologists cannot.

At the outset of his comments Professor Teller expresses disquiet at what seems to him my claiming to have a rule which is capable of automatically generating the hypothesis to be adopted when given nothing but the experimental data. Such a claim would indeed be quite preposterous since everybody knows that there are no clear-cut principles for the production of hypotheses, but that these are s...

Discussions: Wednesday, September 22, at 6 PM and Thursday, September 23, at 1 PM in the Sunken Lounge of the DC Nomar and Professor Pedro An Honor Council Academic Trial Released Fall 2004 Introduction: Nomar was a student in Professor Pedro’s class. Nomar handed in a paper to Professor Pedro with several sections that Professor Pedro thought were not Nomar’s own work. After confronting Nomar ...

Michael Argyle, who died aged 77 on September 6th, was one of the handful of British psychologists to have gained an international reputation. He was a pioneer in the scientific study of social behaviour. His research on interviews and conversations established that nonverbal rather than verbal communication dictate the impressions people make on others. So much is the primacy of ‘‘body languag...

Modelling solar drying rate of waste-water sludge Ido Seginer* and Markus Bux 1 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel 2 Agricultural Engineering, University of Hohenheim, Germany *Corresponding author. Fax: 972 4 829 5696; E-mail: [email protected] Efficient solar drying requires that the drying rate is quantitatively known as a function of the environment and th...

Mohammad Hossein Hakimi Meibody was born in 1963 in Meibod, Yazd province. He gets his diploma in Meibod and then for higher education, he went to Isfahan university and exceeded direction of plant science for 4 years and graduated in 1989 with excellent grade. Then, he went to Tehran university and passed course of Plant Systematic in Biology department of faculty of science since 1996 with ex...

He received his B.Sc. degree in Biology (1990) from Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Canada, also M.Sc. in Botany (1993) from Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Canada and Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (1996) from Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, England.Dr. Fraser's expertise is in grassland and wetland ecosystems, with a focus o...

There was no history of a foreign body in the nose at any time before. Anterior rhinoscopy showed a rough dark stony mass covered with greenish discharge. Probing gave a metallic sound. Postnasal examination showed a greenish discharge. A clinical diagnosis of a rhinolith was made. Radiology showed the rhinolith's position (Fig. 1) in the floor of the right nostril with mucosal thickening of th...