This research offers the first analysis of whether gold, treasury bills, Overnight Index Swaps (OIS), or Interbank Offered Rates (IBOR) can be used as proxies for risk-free assets in the UK, the US, China, Japan, and India. Using Black’s (1972) zero-beta capital asset pricing model, we apply...

Hybrid machine tools are suitable for machining structural components with complex geometries due to their merits of flexible posture adjustment and quick dynamic response. This paper proposes a novel hybrid machine tool with 5-axis machining capability by integrating a newly invented...

Half doped LaFe0.5M0.5O3(M=Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) perovskite was employed as oxygen carriers/gasification agents in the gasification of torrefied biomass (TB) coupled with CO2 splitting, The effect of torrefaction temperature on the syngas yield and CO formation rate as well as the M doping half doped...

A facile and universal route has been developed to synthesize metal oxides-based yolk-shelled structures with controllable void size. Based on this approach, a yolk-shelled SnO 2 @N dopped C (yolk-shelled SnO 2 @NxC) composite has been successfully synthesized for lithium-ion battery electrodes....

Hygroelectricity - an interaction between moisture and hydrophilic materials results electricity generation. The whole-cell films are advantageous for sustainable hygroelectric generator (HEG) application because of readily availability, abundance and environmental compatibility, but it is not...

This article studies the monitoring of the attribute events based on statistical computation and analyses. The size of an attribute event is an integer rather than a continuous variable. For example, the detection of a product lot containing defectives is an attribute event, the size of which is...

While many control charts have been developed for monitoring the time interval (T) between the occurrences of an event; many other charts are employed to examine the magnitude (X) of the event. This article presents a single statistical process control (SPC) chart (called the rate chart) for...

A robust desirability function approach to simultaneously optimizing multiple responses is proposed. The approach considers the uncertainty associated with the fitted response surface model. The uniqueness of the proposed method is that it takes account of all values in the confidence interval...