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Hybrid test for the hypothesis of symmetry
No full textIn recent years, McWilliams and Tajuddin have proposed new and more powerful non-parametric tests of symmetry for continuous distributions about a known center. In this paper, we propose a simple non-parametric two-stage procedure based on the sign test and a percentile-modified two-sample Wilcoxon test. The small-sample properties of this test, Tajuddin's test, McWilliams' test and a modified runs test of Modarres and Gastwirth are investigated in a Monte Carlo simulation study. The simulations indicate that, for a wide variety of asymmetric alternatives in the lambda family, the hybrid test is more powerful than are existing tests in the literature.
Mr. Hasan Modarres and his political role in Iran 1870-1937 AD
No full textThe personality of Mr. Ayatollah Hassan Modarres is one of the well-known Iranian religious and political figures, and his role has clearly emerged since the events of the Iranian Constitutional Movement (1905-1911 AD), where he had a clear role in all of those events, then the activity of Mr. Hassan Modarres expanded during the years of the First World War And beyond, to constitute a vital element in combating tyranny and injustice that Iranian society was suffering from, due to the foreign presence in the country and its consolidation and support for the armed resistance movements that Iran witnessed during those years, perhaps foremost among which was the movement of the Gilan region. Mr. Mudarres also had a clear role in the period that followed the First World War and his resistance and leadership of the demonstrations calling for the independence of Iran and the exit of the foreign occupation, especially the British, from Iran. Adversaries of the policy of Iranian governments. Mr. Mudarres completed his role even after the dissolution of the Qajar family and Reza Shah Pahlavi's accession to power. However, the history of his struggle during the rule of that family did not last long, so he was soon physically liquidated by the Iranian security forces and at the personal behest of Shah Reza Pahlavi, thus turning the page of his bitter jihad and struggle .
The research is divided into an introduction, three sections, and a conclusion. The first section sheds light on the family in which Mr. Mudarres was raised and his religious and scientific upbringing, while the second section sheds light on the role of Mr. Mudarres in the midst of the events that Iran witnessed during the period 1905-1918 AD. The third is the struggle of Mr. Modarres and his opposition to foreign policy trends in Iran until his death in 1937 AD.
The research relied on many published Persian documents such as statements, letters, and reports that dealt in detail with the role of Mr. Mudarres in very important Iranian events. The research also relied on a wide range of Persian and Arabic books and references, and a number of English and other sources
Survey of the Key Methods of Improving Public Trust to Government
No full textSurveyoftheKeyMethodsofImprovingPublicTrusttoGovernment Hasan Danaee Fard* - Ali Reza Hasanzadeh** - Somayeh Nasroallahi*** (Received: 2014/April/17 – Accept: 2014/Octobr/27) Abstract Public Trust is considered as a strategic capital of any political system. Accordingly, one of the main challenges facing governments is “public Trust management”. The governments should use mechanisms to achieve this objective. The final goal of this research is to suggest mechanisms for public Trust promoting to the Iranian government. It is provided in mix method. In the first stage, the mechanisms are provided through reviewing and a scale is developed along taken mechanisms and in the second stage, such scale is justified by public. Finally, 38 determined mechanisms are classified in 5 categories. The main ones are: social equity in using public service, making political and economic peace, and existence of efficient judicial institution. It is also analyzed the gap between the current and desired situation using the mechanisms in which there is significant difference between them in all identified mechanisms. *Associate Professor of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] **Associate Professor of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] ***Master of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] (corresponding author
Further aspects of the tests of the equality of correlation matrices
No full textA common problem in social, educational, behavioral and biological research is to investigate relationships between variables across several groups. Factor analysis is one such procedure with a long history of use. A more modern graphical procedure is the biplot of Gabriel (1971). Biplots result in a graphical display of correlation structure.We present results that extend an existing test of equality of correlation matrices. A new test statistic is proposed and is shown to be asymptotically distributed as a linear combination of independent \chi\sp2 random variables. This new formulation allows us to find the power of the existing test and our extensions by deriving the distribution under the alternative as that of a linear combination of independent non-central \chi\sp2 random variables.We also investigate the null and the alternative distributions of two related statistics. The first test statistic is defined as a quadratic form in deviations from a control group with the remaining K-1 groups to be compared. The second test is designed for comparing adjacent groups.In order to find a simple and accurate approximation for our statistics, we discuss several methods of approximating the distribution function of a definite quadratic form in normal variates. In particular, we investigate the two moment, the three moment, and the normal approximations. We also consider an approximation technique due to Imhof (1961).A Monte Carlo study is presented to assess the robustness of our procedure and the likelihood ratio test. We show that aside from the computational difficulties associated with the likelihood ratio test, this test is very sensitive to the assumption of multivariate normality. We also show that our test statistic performs well under non-normal distributions. To illustrate the techniques and assess the applicability of our procedure, we present several examples.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-05, Section: B, page: 2442.Advisors: Robert W. Jernigan.Ph.D. American University 1990.Englis
The Wrath of God: Reza Aslan on Faith, Islam and the Media
No full textApart from being an exceptionally intelligent writer, religious scholar Reza Aslan is quickly gaining a reputation for being one of the most patient men on television.More than once, he has painstakingly explained to TV hosts that their less-than-sophisticated stands on Islam may be founded on flimsy and dangerous assumptions. He gained international recognition for his Fox News interview that went viral, and more recently, Aslan’s nuanced response to Bill Maher’s rant.Aslan returned to Vancouver to unpack the arguments around religion and violence. Touching on a range of topics from identity to ISIS, Aslan argued that no religion exists in a vacuum. Every faith is rooted in the soil in which it is planted.“Using two or three examples to justify a generalization. That’s actually the definition of bigotry.” – Reza Aslan (response to Bill Maher)Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. He is the founder of AslanMedia, a social media network for news and entertainment about the Middle East and the world, and co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BoomGen Studios, the premier entertainment brand for creative content from and about the Greater Middle East. Aslan’s first book is the International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into seventeen languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War, as well as editor of two volumes: Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, and Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities. Born in Iran, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife (author and entrepreneur Jessica Jackley). When Aslan is not working on his own writing, he serves as a writing consultant in television on the upcoming show, DIG, with Tim Kring and Gideon Raff
Reza Aslan: Islam & ISIS
No full textTHE DEAN\u27S FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & LETTERS PRESENT
Reza Aslan: Islam & ISIS
Amidst the recent terror attacks in the Middle East, Paris and San Bernardino, CA, harmful generalizations regarding the Muslim population\u27s involvement in terrorism have spread rapidly. In this exciting event, Reza Asian will be speaking about and answering questions regarding the relationship between radical Islam and terrorism. The event will be conducted largely in question and answer format, and audience members are invited to submit anonymous questions via text.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 8:00 PM JORDAN AUDITORIUM MENDOZA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Dr. Reza Asian, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, was named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. In addition, he also has been featured as a correspondent for Fox News, CNN, John Stewart\u27s The Daily Show and the New York Times. He currently serves as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside and is filming his television show, Believer, that will premiere on CNN in 2016 .https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1192/thumbnail.jp
Reza Aslan - Author of No god but God and Expert on Islam
No full textIn partnership with the Quest for Community: A Call to Action Conference
The first young Muslim intellectual to come on the scene in years, Reza Aslan brings a new, passionate, and much-needed perspective to the national discussion regarding Islam. Aslan is a fellow at the University of Southern California\u27s Center on Public Diplomacy and Middle East analyst for CBS News. In his internationally acclaimed book No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, as in his lectures and writings, Aslan explores the intricate interplay between faith and politics in the Muslim world, presenting Islam as an ever-evolving faith and culture currently in the midst of a cataclysmic internal battle for reform and modernization.
Arrangements for the appearance of Reza Aslan made through Greater Talent network, Inc., NY, NY.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1044/thumbnail.jp
Pseudoholomorphic quilts and Khovanov homology:
No full textWe generalize the symplectically-defined link homology theory developed by Paul Seidel and Ivan Smith to an invariant of tangles. We obtain a group-valued invariant, a functor-valued (or symplectic-valued functor) invariant and an ay functor-valued one for tangles. We provide evidence for the equivalence of this invariant with Khovanov's combinatorially defined invariant by showing the equivalence for flat (crossingless) tangles and their cobordisms. We also obtain an exact triangle for the Seidel-Smith invariant similar to that of Khovanov.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93)by Reza Rezazadega
Reza Aslan: Iranian-American Writer, Professor of Creative Writing
No full textReza Aslan, one of the nation\u27s most respected experts on Islam and the Middle East is a research associate at the University of Southern California\u27s Center on Public Diplomacy. He serves as a Middle East commentator for National Public Radio\u27s Marketplace and Muslim affairs analyst for CBS News.
The author of the internationally acclaimed No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Aslan received critical acclaim from The New York Times, which described the work as a grippingly narrated and thoughtfully examined ... literate, accessible introduction to Islam.
Aslan has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times , Slate, Boston Globe, Washington Post and The Nation, and has appeared on Meet the Press, Hardball, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and Nightline.
Aslan\u27s career began in 1998 when was elected president of Harvard\u27s chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), a United Nations organization committed to the cause of global understanding. After consecutive nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, the WCRP, under Aslan\u27s leadership, brought the ambassadors of the two countries to Harvard in order to discuss for the first time their shared nuclear future.
Aslan\u27s work with the WCRP led to a position as legislative assistant for the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington, D.C., where he served as a liaison to Congress on issues of arms control and the Middle East.
He holds a bachelor\u27s degree in religion from Santa Clara University, a master\u27s in theological studies from Harvard and a master of fine arts degree in fiction from the University of Iowa. He is currently a doctoral candidate in history of religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Phonological change of vowel length in Farsi
No full textPhonological change of vowel length in Farsi
Author / Authors : Reza Heidarizadi
Page no. 50 - 55
Discipline : Persian Linguistics/language
Script/language : Roman/English
Category : Research paper
Keywords: Farsi vowels, vowel length, Compensatory lengthenin
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