the present study surveys the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic conditions on bank performance to examine the structure-conduct-performance (scp) hypothesis in iranian banking industry. to achieve this goal, we drew upon the panel data technique to analyze the data of eleven public and private iranian banks during 2001-2006. firstly, productivity was calculated by usi...

This paper discusses our recent results in the classification of human-based ssh traffic as compared to machine-based scp traffic. Since both of these services, ssh and scp, use the same port, port 22, this classification problem occurs within a quite natural framework. Results that illustrate an exploratory analysis of the data will be presented along with some preliminary classification results.

In this paper we study a broad class of structured nonlinear programming (SNLP) problems. In particular, we first establish the first-order optimality conditions for them. Then we propose sequential convex programming (SCP) methods for solving them in which each iteration is obtained by solving a convex programming problem. Under some suitable assumptions, we establish that any accumulation poi...

Chondrules are microscopic, recrystallized melt droplets found in chondritic meteorites. High-resolution isotope analyses of minor elements require large enough element quantities which obtained by dissolving entire chondrules. This work emphasizes the importance X-ray computed tomography (XCT) to detect features that can significantly affect bulk chondrule composition. It thereby expands on ot...

Article history: Received 17 February 2014 Received in revised form 7 May 2014 Accepted 7 May 2014 Available online xxxx JEL classification: A13 C23 J30

almost ideal demand system (aids) and rotterdam model have been employed to (by means of seemingly unrelated regression (sur) estimate the function related to milk and dairy products in the urban societies of iran for years 1982 to 2009. cross and cross price elasticities have been evaluated too. results indicated that during the study period, share of milk products in household budget was more...

We give a simple proof of the Cafiero theorem based on a matrix method approach in the form of Lemma 2.4 in the σ-additive context. Based on a version of Drewnowski lemma for an SCP-ring we obtain an extension of Cafiero theorem for exhaustive finitely additive set functions defined on an SCP-ring. As consequences, the well-known Nikodým and Brooks-Jewett convergence theorems are obtained. AMS ...

BACKGROUND Comorbidities may contribute to disease activity and treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. We defined a somatization comorbidity phenotype (SCP) and examined its influence on response to certolizumab pegol (CZP) using data from the PREDICT trial. METHODS Patients in PREDICT were randomized to the patient-reported Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID...