It is well known that the set of non-negative integers is the state-space of usual branching stochastic processes. However in many applications one may have situations when it is difficult to count the number of individuals in the population, but some non-negative characteristic, such as volume,...

Nawata [8–10] proposed a new estimator for the standard regression, censored regression, and binary choice models, based on grouping of observations. This paper shows that Nawata's grouping method can be generalised to various types of estimation problems and represents a new class of...

Process capability analysis has been widely applied in the field of quality control to monitor the performance of industrial processes. In practice, lifetime performance index CL is a popular means to assess the performance and potential of their processes, where L is the lower specification...

The female labor supply models have been widely used in labor economics. The models are usually estimated by Heckman’s two-step estimator. However, Heckman’s two-step estimator often performs poorly. This paper considers an estimation of the models by the maximum likelihood method. An...

This paper investigates a viral infection model with periodic immune response and nonlinear cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response. Using the periodic rhythms of human immune system, the model can avoid the unreasonable equilibrium in the basic viral model with nonlinear CTL response introduced...

The in vivo variable fluorescence of chlorophyll a is used as a non-intrusive probe of the physiological state of intact leaves. It was established that the origin of this signal is the antenna system of photosystem II (PSII). The PSII population is heterogeneous with respect to antenna size,...

There is a considerable amount of experimental evidence that unequivocally shows that there are fluids whose viscosity depends on both the mean normal stress (pressure) and the shear rate. Recently, global existence of solutions for the flow of such fluids for the three-dimensional case was...

In this paper, we consider two models that have been recently developed from a thermodynamic standpoint and that are capable of describing the response of nonlinear viscoelastic fluids. We test the efficacy of both models by comparing their predictions against torsion experiments conducted for...

The paper presents significant aspects of analytical and numerical simulation of a high-frequency converter with voltage-fed inverter, framing in over 10 years preoccupations of the Electric Powers Laboratory from our Technical University. Here some constructive-functional aspects are...

Remodelling is a dynamic process occurring during growth and it includes sensing of environmental changes, tissue resorbance, i.e. the removal of existing old bone, and formation of new tissue. The biomechanical remodelling process is relatively well formulated for bones and can be divided into...