This paper provides a uni¯ed statistical framework for the analysis of distortion riskmeasures (DRM) and of their sensitivities with respect to parameters representing riskaversion and/or pessimism. We derive the general formula for calculating the functionalasymptotic distribution of the...

A significant proportion of patients used the internet to obtain information about their disease. Age, employment status, educational level, and household average monthly income had an effect on internet usage for LC information. The use of the internet could cause mixed emotional outcomes among...

Because the shape, intensity, and texture features of classic hail echo cores are easy to observe, these features are used to examine the matching methods of classic hail echo cores by using template-based and feature-based matching algorithms in this study. We first introduce the shape,...

Human activities have become a major source of Earth’s climate change, which brings the rise of surface air temperature and subsurface ocean temperature. Therefore, promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns is imperative to minimize the use of natural resources and reduce...

This paper considers the estimation and the hypothesis testing on the equality of the ratios of the means to standard deviations of several normal populations with difference sample sizes. We propose an iterative algorithm to find the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the normal population...

This article has constructed a framework to analyze the relationship between national innovation investments, international knowledge spillover due to FDI and regional technological progress. We use the panel data sample in 1992–2006 from China’s 29 provinces (municipalities or autonomous...

The global economic crisis has attracted renewed attention to the issue of trade finance as exporters in some countries, particularly SMEs, struggle to secure much needed short-term financing and protection against rising commercial risks at a time when demand for their products has fallen...

In this paper, heat transfer and air flow in a composite-wall solar-collector system with a porous absorber has been studied. The [`]unsteady' numerical simulation is conducted to analyze the performance of heat transfer and air flow in the composite wall. The excess heat is stored in the porous...

A diesel engine is modified for homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion with dimethyl ether. With and without knock, in-cylinder pressure is acquired, and in-cylinder temperature, rate of heat release (ROHR), pressure rise rate and pressure rise acceleration obtained. Wavelet...