The information and communication technologies have rapidly been incorporated and expanded in our society.The age in which children and adolescents get access to electronic devices is decreasing.These devices have big advantages, but they can also be inappropriately used to molest and intimidate other children and, as a result, to cause severe psyc
AbstractThis study tests for calendar anomalies in returns for petroleum and petroleum products via the futures market, specifically, the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect.The energy future contracts in this study are the WTI (West Texas Intermediate), Brent, RBOB (Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending) IRON Gasoline, Heating Oil, and Natural G
The objective of the present study was to investigate the associations between major diseases (clinical mastitis, peracute mastitis, metabolic disorders, peripartum disorders) and four parameters related to productivity (305-day milk yield, number of days open, culling rate, death rate) on a large dairy farm in a temperate zone with approximately 2
Compound extreme events always cause severe impacts on human society and the natural system, especially in the populated areas.However, studies on their changes depend on definitions of the related extreme events.In this study, a newly defined compound drought and hot extreme events (CDHEEs) index based on the day-night concurrent Trinket Dishes ho
We present an approach to program reasoning which inserts between a program and its verification conditions an additional layer, the denotation of the program expressed in a declarative form.The program is first translated into its denotation from which subsequently the verification conditions are generated.However, even before (and independently o