Researchers have recently realized that hydraulic fracture networks are significant for the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs (tight gas, shale gas, coalbed methane, etc.). Studies have shown that slickwater fracturing treatments can create complex fractures that increase the...

Using examples drawn from two important papers in the recent literature on weak instruments, we demonstrate how observed experimental outcomes can be pro- foundly inuenced by the dierent conceptual frameworks underlying two exper- imental designs commonly employed when simulating simultaneous...

High-temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (HTS SMES) are an emerging technology with fast response and large power capacities which can address the challenges of growing power systems and ensure a reliable power supply. China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) has...

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimation of semi-linear regression models. Using invariance arguments, Bhowmik and King (2001) have derived the probability density functions of the maximal invariant statistic for the nonlinear component of these models. Using these density functions...

In this paper, the description and results of simulation experiments investigating buffer allocation in closed serial production lines are presented. The production lines studied consist of either reliable or unreliable workstations, and have asynchronous movement of jobs. The experimental...