Forecasting financial risk and risk measurement methods have been of increasing interest for financial market regulators and financial institutions in the past two decades. While the parametric and semi-parametric models have been widely reviewed in the academic literature, the non-parametric...

With constant deepening of development outlook of urban and rural integration, education circle starts to attach great importance to reform of personnel training program. Since scarcity of land resource and key role of land management in urban and rural integration, it is urgent to optimize the...

With the development of the society, the undergraduates training modes of land resources management major have diversified developed. The land resources management majors in universities with different background have various features in China. Chongqing Technology and Business University was...

Despite the high CO2 emission intensity of fossil and especially coal fired energy production, these energy carriers will play an important role during the coming decades. The case study identifies the main technological trajectories concerning more efficient fossil fuel combustion and explores...

<em>Landoltia punctata</em>, a widely distributed duckweed strain with the ability to accumulate starch, was used as a novel feedstock for bioethanol production by <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em>. To improve ethanol production, pectinase pretreatment was used to release much more glucose from <em>L. punctata</em> mash...

This study examines whether the associations between neighborhood conditions and children's health can be indirect and operate through aspects of family functioning. We use data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health in the United States with the interviewed parents/guardians as the...

A novel three-phase film with conductive acetylene black (AB) and ferroelectric phase (BaTiO3) introduced intoβ-polyvinylidene fluoride (β-PVDF) was prepared by using dip-coating method. The high dielectric constant of 650 can be obtained in the AB–PVDF/BaTiO3 composite film when AB content...

A two-sided Weibull is developed to model the conditional financial return distribution, for the purpose of forecasting Value at Risk (VaR) and conditional VaR. A range of conditional return distributions are combined with four volatility specifications to forecast tail risk in four...

Extreme Value Theory (EVT) measures the behaviour of extreme observations on a random variable. EVT in risk management, an approach to modelling and measuring risks under rare events, has taken on a prominent role in recent years. This article contributes to the literature in two respects by...