introduction: a large number of software programs have been used in dentistry for diagnosis and treatment planning to date. however, due to promotion of programming languages and developments in dental sciences, it is necessary to develop and update these softwares. use of softwares for treatment planning for removable partial dentures has been popular for some time and always new softwares hav...

considering the importance of increase in production and supply of agricultural products in iranian economic development, this study was carried out to investigate the impact of factors influencing the acreage (as a proxy for planned production and supply) of five important crops , namely wheat, barley, potatoes, sunflower and cotton. the seemingly unrelated regression estimation (sure) was use...

the purpose of this paper is a study on the effect of cash flows on the gap between actual and optimal financial leverage ratio companies listed in tehran stock exchange. in this regard, we try to help with advanced econometric techniques such as partial adjustment model on panel data and generalized method of moments to achieve a reasonable estimate of the impacts.in this paper, were analyzed ...

The purpose of this paper is to construct a dynamic stochastic production frontier incorporating the sluggish adjustment of inputs, to measure the speed of adjustment of output, and to compare the technical efficiency estimates from this dynamic model to those from a static model. Assuming that the adjustment speed of all inputs is similar for every production unit, a linear partial adjustment ...

We develop a model where dividend payout, investment and financing decisions are made by managers who attempt to maximize the rents they take from the firm. But the threat of intervention by outside shareholders constrains rents and forces rents and dividends to move in lockstep. Managers are risk-averse, and their utility function allows for habit formation. We show that dividends follow Lintn...

The purpose of this paper is to construct a dynamic stochastic production frontier incorporating the sluggish adjustment of inputs, to measure the speed of adjustment of output, and to compare the technical efficiency estimates from this dynamic model to those from a static model. By assuming instantaneous adjustment of all inputs, a static model may underestimate technical efficiency of a prod...

This paper discusses the automatic texturing of building facades from thermal infrared image sequences. A fully automatic method is presented to refine GPS based positions using a relative orientation of the image sequence and preknowledge of a given building model in a bundle adjustment process. The resulting refined orientation parameters are used to project the infrared images of the sequenc...

Gu and Zheng (1993) established a Bartlett adjustment for the partial likelihood ratio test in the Cox proportional hazards regression model. It is known that the same method of adjustment cannot be used to improve the accuracy of the test statistic derived by Rao’s score method. In this paper, the method of Cordeiro and Ferrari (1991) is used to derive a Bartlett type correction for the score ...

The theoretical model of emotion regulation and many empirical findings have suggested that children's emotion regulation may mediate the association between parents' emotion socialization and children's psychological adjustment. However, limited research has been conducted on moderators of these relations, despite the argument that the associations between parenting practices and children's ps...