The dynamics of cycle-to-cycle variations (CCV) was investigated in a natural gas direct-injection spark-ignition engine. The method of continuous wavelet transform was used to analyze the time series of the indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) and other combustion variables. The dominant...

We document a significant, up to 10-fold increase in the intra-day correlation of firm-specific and market returns over the last decade. This surge in the intra-day correlation of returns coincided with the advent of electronic, automated trading in U.S. markets. Using changes to the S&P500...

We document a gender-based attention effect in the sensitivity of mutual fund flows to fund performance using individual-level fund data from a fintech platform in China. Investors increase (decrease) flows to funds following positive and strong (negative and weak) prior- month performance....

Ionic liquids (ILs) are composed of only anions and cations and are liquid solvents at room temperature. Different functional groups were introduced into the ILs, conferring them with specific functions or purposes and thus forming special ILs, namely task-specific ILs (TSILs). Imidazolium-based...

I create proxies for managers' cultural fit using one of the latest machine learning technologies – the sentence embedding model - by analysing 11.5 million speeches in earnings calls. A better cultural fit is significantly and positively correlated with managerial tenure. I demonstrate that...

We study localization properties of a one-dimensional disordered system characterized by a random non-hermitean hamiltonian where both the randomness and the non-hermiticity arises in the local site-potential; its real part being random, and a constant imaginary part implying the presence of...

We have studied the transport in two random dimer models. The site energies are chosen randomly from a binary distribution, one pair at a time and the hopping terms (nearest neighbour only) are chosen to be either (i) a constant, or (ii) perfectly correlated to adjacent random site energies. In...

In a Monte Carlo study of the two dimensional Ising system (of size 100 × 100) with nearest neighbour ferromagnetic interaction in the presence of a sinusoidally varying external magnetic field, we studied the variation of the hysteretic loop area (A) with frequency (f), amplitude (h0) of...

We investigate a model correlated bond percolation problem on a 2D square lattice. We throw conducting bonds at random on a lattice. The nearest-neighbour gaps (which are not actually connected through conducting bonds) are bridged by some other “tunneling” bonds, which represent tunneling...