From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...

Stainless steel square tube components with complex spatial shapes are widely used in the fields of vehicles, ships, construction machinery and construction. Due to these components tend to be diversified in shape, the ordinary three-axis free bend-ing technology can not keep up with the...

By introducing the method of "excess" analysis in corporate finance to quantify the fiscal balance in regional economics, this paper analyzes the heterogeneous impact of municipal party secretaries and mayors with military background on local economy development in 281 prefecture-level cities...

As in most other societies, women in China own less wealth than men, which affects their rights and welfare within and beyond the household. Meanwhile, housing assets have constituted the largest share of family wealth after decades of market reforms. Therefore, this study focuses on the...

In differential expression analysis of microarray data, it is common to assume independence among null hypotheses (and thus gene expression levels). The independence assumption implies that the number of false rejections V follows a binomial distribution and leads to an estimator of the...

An estimator of a smooth quantile function (q.f.) is constructed by Bernstein polynomial smoothing of the empirical quantile function. Asymptotic behavior of this estimator is demonstrated by a weighted Brownian bridge in-probability uniform approximation. Oscillation behavior of this estimator...