This paper studies the semiconductor industry from three perspectives: historical, entrepreneurial and supply chain management. After a brief introduction, the paper begins by tracing the history and evolution of the semiconductor industry including the two seminal enterprises: Shockley...

Motivated by the recent advances in the kappa statistic for the clustered physician–patients dichotomous data, we extend the development for the polytomous data. For the clustered physician–patients polytomous data, based on its special correlation and covariance structure, we propose a...

We consider the compound Poisson risk model with debit interest and dividend payments. The model assumes that the company is allowed to borrow at some debit interest rate when the surplus turns negative, and that the premium incomes are paid out as dividends to shareholders when the surplus...

In direct coal liquefaction, research and development on gas-liquid-solid three-phase reactors is an important project. A model for tubular reactors in direct coal liquefaction is proposed. Since the ratio length-to-diameter is very large, both the gas and slurry phases are assumed to move as...

This paper considers a dependent risk model with diffusion for the surplus of an insurer, in which a current premium rate will be adjusted after a claim occurs and the adjusted rate is determined by the amount of the claim. At the same time, the diffusion is changed correspondingly. Using...

This paper investigates a new test for normality that is easy for biomedical researchers to understand and easy to implement in all dimensions. In terms of power comparison against a broad range of alternatives, the new test outperforms the best known competitors in the literature as...

The entropy evolution property of a single-mode light field interacting with V-type three-level atoms via intensity-dependent coupling has been studied, and the influence of detuning of light field and initial photon number on entropy evolution of field is discussed. It is found that if detuning...

The quadrature squeezing properties of an atom laser originating from atomic Bose–Einstein condensate interacting with light field are studied. We find that the squeezing properties of the atom laser are dependent on the initial light field interacting with the atomic Bose–Einstein...

This paper considers the optimal dividend problem with proportional reinsurance and capital injection for a large insurance portfolio. In particular, the reinsurance premium is assumed to be calculated via the variance principle instead of the expected value principle. Our objective is to...