the letter of credit as a method of smoothing international payment is a conditional security and obligation to pay the customer bank (issuing bank) to seller (applicant). for this purpose, the letters of credit may be considered as the most usual method of payment of goods price in international trade. the classic form of letters of credit is the commercial letters of credit whose financial ob...

line of threshold acuity and perhaps especially if the first eye assessed has the better acuity. In addition, routinely asking subjects to read from the top line increases the frequency of exposure to the letters and the level of passive memory that can be developed. Consequently, if the best of multiple measures is enhanced by passive memory, any apparent deterioration at a subsequent examinat...

line of threshold acuity and perhaps especially if the first eye assessed has the better acuity. In addition, routinely asking subjects to read from the top line increases the frequency of exposure to the letters and the level of passive memory that can be developed. Consequently, if the best of multiple measures is enhanced by passive memory, any apparent deterioration at a subsequent examinat...

ON OCTOBER 9, 2001, A LETter containing anthrax spores was mailed to a US senator’s office in Washington, DC. That letter was processed at the Brentwood postal facility, one of the largest in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and eventually opened by the senator’s staff 6 days later. As of October 30, 2001, 5 postal workers who worked at or handled bulk mail from that facility had been hos...

We carry out a comprehensive analysis of letter frequencies in contemporary written Marathi. We determine sets of letters which statistically predominate any large generic Marathi text, and use these sets to estimate the entropy of Marathi.

the present study investigates the effect of different exposure densities on third grade iranian junior high school (ijhs) students’ efl development and retention. it also attempts to explore whether there is any differential performance due to type of post-exposure assessment tasks (recognition vs. written production). performances of five groups of learners receiving equal amount of exposure ...