We report the preparation of ZnO quantum dot hybrid luminescent resists for nanoimprint lithography. Photoluminescence spectra indicate that ZnO QDs@AMONIL have a significant increase in the luminescent intensity, an obvious blue-shift of emission peak and the Stoke's shift, revealing that ZnO...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to discuss the phenomenon of dual-role participants in public-private partnership (PPP) projects. Contractors who are also investors hold a dual-role that can improve project financing and technical ability. However, speculation without effort from the...

In Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) infrastructure projects, host governments often provide subsidies, guarantees or alternative forms of support as incentives to attract private sector participation. A guaranteed level of minimum revenue, for example, can be specially designed to alleviate the...

A novel and robust method is proposed by combining the idea of the modal regression estimation (Yao et al., 2012) and spline based shrinkage estimation method (Lian, 2012). The newly proposed method can simultaneously estimate and separate constant coefficients from varying coefficients and its...

In this paper, we consider how to yield a robust empirical likelihood estimation for regression models. After introducing modal regression, we propose a novel empirical likelihood method based on modal regression estimation equations, which has the merits of both robustness and high inference...

Partial linear single-index model (PLSIM) is a flexible and applicable model when investigating the underlying relationship between the response and the multivariate covariates. Most previous studies on PLSIM concentrated on mean regression, based on least square or likelihood approach. In...