investigating the export function of border markets in iran, using the ann approach ali falahati faculty of economics razi university of kerman minoo nazifi naeini sahar abbaspour abstract nowadays, trade has been introduced as an engine of growth and development in developing countries so states are required to participate in international trade more seriously. one way for expanding participat...

Adhesively bonded structures are potentially lighter in weight than mechanically fastened ones, but existing surface treatments are often considered unreliable. Two main problems in achieving reproducible and durable adhesive bonds are surface contamination and variability in standard surface preparation techniques. In this work three surface pretreatments were compared: laser etching with and ...

Existing literature focuses on how corporate taxation affects firms’ investment decisions by altering after-tax returns. This paper instead examines how corporate taxation affects investment by reducing the cash flow a firm has available to invest in the current period. I use a sharp nonlinearity in the mapping from pre-tax profitability to taxes created by the tax loss carryforward feature of ...

The study of memory for event duration in pigeons has, for the most part, centered on an unusual behavioral phenomenon and an interesting theoretical explanation for it. A typical experiment on memory for event duration involves trials initiated by a sample stimulus that is either short or long in duration (e.g., 2 vs. 10 sec of houselight) and that is later followed by the simultaneous present...

by Dune Nixon : '"The Albany State booters broke their three game'losing streak Saturday with a decisive 4-1 win over Brooklyn College. The Great Danes, led by high-scoring Maurice Tsododo, really seemed to jell in this one. All phases of their game came around at once and resulted in an almost complete domination of the Brooklyn eleven. As the game got under way it looked as if Albany might be...