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Parag C. Pendharkar
This paper proposes a genetic algorithm-based Markov Chain approach that can be used for non-parametric estimation of regression coefficients and their statistical confidence bounds. The proposed approach can generate samples from an unknown probability ...
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Ka Kin Lam and Bo Wang
A rapid decline in mortality and fertility has become major issues in many developed countries over the past few decades. An accurate model for forecasting demographic movements is important for decision making in social welfare policies and resource bud...
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Grzegorz Mzyk, Zygmunt Hasiewicz and Pawel Mielcarek
In the paper we deal with the problem of non-linear dynamic system identification in the presence of random noise. The class of considered systems is relatively general, in the sense that it is not limited to block-oriented structures such as Hammerstein...
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Zoran Kovac, Zoran Nakic, Drago ?poljaric, David Stanek and Andrea Bacani
Nitrates present one of the main groundwater contaminants in the world and in the Zagreb aquifer. The Zagreb aquifer presents the main source of potable water for the inhabitants of the City of Zagreb and it is protected by the Republic of Croatia. The d...
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Edina Chandiwana, Caston Sigauke and Alphonce Bere
Probabilistic solar power forecasting has been critical in Southern Africa because of major shortages of power due to climatic changes and other factors over the past decade. This paper discusses Gaussian process regression (GPR) coupled with core vector...
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Maryam Mirzaei,Suresh Ramakrishnan,Mahmoud Bekri
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The accurate prediction of corporate bankruptcy for the firms in different industries is of a great concern to investors and creditors. Firm-specific data accompany with industry and macroeconomic factors offer a potentially large number of candidate pre...
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Raheel Anjum, Xiubin He, Javed Iqbal Tanoli and Syed Turab Raza
Annual temperature data from thirty meteorological stations in Pakistan?s major urban areas were selected to investigate trends in annual average and maximum temperature during 1970?2009. A combination of parametric and non-parametric tests including lin...
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Katlego Mashiane, Samuel Adelabu and Abel Ramoelo
The role of biodiversity in improving the primary productivity within terrestrial ecosystems is well documented. Each species in an ecosystem has a role to play in the overall productivity of an ecosystem. Grass species nitrogen (N) estimation is essenti...
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Michela Borghesi, Cristian Zambelli, Rino Micheloni and Stefano Bonnini
Solid-state drives represent the preferred backbone storage solution thanks to their low latency and high throughput capabilities compared to mechanical hard disk drives. The performance of a drive is intertwined with the reliability of the memories; hen...
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Ivan Herranz-Matey and Luis Ruiz-Garcia
Harvesting is an integral component of the agricultural cycle, necessitating the use of high-performance grain harvester combines, which are utilized for a short period each year. Given the seasonality and significant cost involved, list prices ranging f...
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Dan Liu, Jia You, Rongbo Wang and Haiyan Deng
This study introduces a non-parametric approach to estimate the marginal products of agricultural inputs (agricultural land, labor, machinery, fertilizers and pesticides) in Jiangsu province, China. To study the effects of climate change on these margina...
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Pau Chung Leng, Siew Bee Aw, Nor Eeda Haji Ali, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling, Yoke Lai Lee and Mohd Hamdan Ahmad
This paper studies the effectiveness of a solar chimney for improving ventilation and air-exchange rates in multi-storey public housing in tropical climates for the potential mitigation of airborne disease transmission. Virtual models of a typical apartm...
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Gagandeep Kaur, Abhishek Kaushik and Shubham Sharma
The success of Youtube has attracted a lot of users, which results in an increase of the number of comments present on Youtube channels. By analyzing those comments we could provide insight to the Youtubers that would help them to deliver better quality....
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Cristina Pronello, José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão, Valentina Rappazzo
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This paper aims at assessing the effects on travel behaviour of a multimodal real-time information navigator for smartphone, developed within the project Optimod?Lyon and launched in May 2015. To this end, a quali-quantitative approach was adopted, admin...
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Lenka Pelegrinová,Martin Lacný
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Intellectual property as assets in intangible form is classified in most countries under the definitions of the TRIPS Agreement and PCT according to the manner of its protection. This article presents results of an analysis of relationship between t...
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Gabriela Leite Neves,Jorim Sousa Virgens Filho,Maysa Lima Leite,Eliane Nascimento Santos
Considering the importance of climatologic series and the local temperature variability analyses, this study aimed to evaluate the trend of maximum and minimum air temperature in the State of Paraná, Brazil. It were used daily data for the period 1980 to...
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Gneneyougo Emile Soro, Dabissi Noufé, Tié Albert Goula Bi and Bernard Shorohou
Extreme rainfall events are meteorological hazards that cause great damage and many casualties in the world. This paper examines the trends in extreme rainfall from 10 sub-daily time series and 44 daily time series in Côte d?Ivoire. Rainfall data were co...
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Zawadi Ally, Dr. G.N. Patel
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The objective of this study is to measure the efficiency of commercial banks in Tanzania using a non-parametric approach, the input-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA), both by constant return to scale (CRS) and variable return to scale (VRS). For t...
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This study examines the impact of financial liberalization on banking productivity growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during the period 1999-2007. Employing a non-parametric approach -Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), productivity chan...
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Biljana Jovkovic, Stefan Vr?ina
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Research Question: The paper investigates the relationship between taxation and dividend payout decisions of companies in the Republic of Serbia. Motivation: Including taxation in dividend policy discussion may allow for better understanding of decisions...
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