In this work, Ni80Fe20/Cu composite wires of length 50 mm, consisting a Cu core of diameter 100 μm, coated with a layer of Ni80Fe20, were produced by RF magnetron sputtering. To obtain a uniform coating, the wires were spun during sputtering by a homemade system. The results showed that the...

The adsorption behavior of dodecylamine and its effect on the wettability and corrosion of carbon steel in hydrochloric acid solution were studied. Polarization data suggest that inhibition of carbon steel corrosion is due to geometric blocking effect of adsorbed dodecylamine molecules on the...

The objective of this analysis is to assess the impacts of export expansion, inward FDI, domestic investment and labour on the growth of China's Eastern, Central and Western regions using panel data over the period 1984 to 1998. A major contribution of the study is its tests for the presence of...

Markov chains have been frequently used to characterize uncertainty in many real-world problems. Quite often, these Markov chains can be decomposed into a vector consisting of fast and slow components; these components are coupled through weak and strong interactions. The main goal of this work...

The latent class model provides an important platform for jointly modeling mixed-mode data—i.e., discrete and continuous data with various parametric distributions. Multiple mixed-mode variables are used to cluster subjects into latent classes. While the mixed-mode latent class analysis is a...