We study the flux of totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) on a twin co-axial square tracks. In this biologically motivated model the particles in each track act as mobile bottlenecks against the movement of the particles in the other although the particles are not allowed to...

The Itô formula was extended recently by Dupire (2009) to functionals of paths of continuous semimartingales, and by Cont and Fournié (2010a) to functionals of paths of RCLL semimartingales. In contrast to the traditional formula that applies to functions of the current value of a process,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of private investor's fair preference on the governmental compensation mechanism based on the uncertainty of income for the public-private-partnership (PPP) project. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the governmental dilemma for...

The current method of determining sample size for confidence intervals does not accommodate multiple covariate adjustment. Under the normality assumption, the effect of multiple covariate adjustment on the standard error of the mean comparison is related to a Hotelling T <Superscript>2</Superscript> statistic. Sample size...</superscript>

Purpose – This paper aims to answer the following questions concerning rural-to-urban labor migration in China: What is the impact of discrimination against non-Hukou in urban public service provision? Will such discrimination disappear in the future within the current policy-making framework?...