Given the increased importance rating agencies have assumed in the determination of credit institutions’ capital requirements according to the Standardised Approach in the Basel II framework, the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision has proposed a procedure to “map” the ratings of different rating agencies into the risk weights that determine credit institutions’ capital requirements. This p...

introduction: the idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. in this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high schoo...

Variable results of pain alleviation in response to acupuncture have been reported, complicating its interpretation. Sources of variability are probably multi-factorial, including the contribution of gender related effects. Gender related variation in perceived pain has been discussed frequently, but documented effects of acupuncture referring to gender are sparse. Furthermore, factors such as ...

the aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from ahvaz with denver developmental screening test ii. themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. the statistical populationconsisted of children from ahvaz and 1044 children aged between 3 and 6 wereselected from ahvaz kindergartens by cluster random sampling method. denverdevelopmental sc...

abstract background beta-thalassemia is a common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, which is a reason of microcytic hypochromic anemia. patients with major thalassemia require multiple blood transfusions. this study evaluated growth in thalassemic patient and relationship with ferritin level. materials and methods this is a cross sectional study on seventy patients (36 boys, 34girls) with transfusion...

Proving a conjecture of Talagrand, fractional version the ``expectation-threshold" Kalai and second author, we show that $p_c (\mathcal{F}) = O(q_f(\mathcal{F})\mathrm{log}\ \ell(\mathcal{F}))$ for any increasing family $\mathcal{F}$ on finite set $X$, where $p_c(\mathcal{F})$ $q_f(\mathcal{F})$ are threshold ``fractional expectation-threshold" $\mathcal{F}$, $\ell(\mathcal{F})$ is maximum size...

This paper presents two novel spectral soil area indices to identify bare and distinguish it more accurately from the urban impervious surface (ISA). study designs these based on medium spatial resolution remote sensing data Landsat 8 OLI dataset. Extracting or ISA is challenging than extracting water bodies vegetation in multispectral Remote Sensing (RS). Bare often were mixed because of their...