Value-added models have been widely used to assess the contributions of individual teachers and schools to students’ academic growth based on longitudinal student achievement outcomes. There is concern, however, that ignoring the presence of missing values, which are common in...

Climatic characteristics of foreign low latitude plateau regions are firstly introduced. Then, experience and lessons of major foreign low latitude plateau countries in developing modern agriculture are analyzed, including Indian three agricultural revolutions and agricultural informationization...

Diffusers play a vital role in the supersonic separator to convert kinetic energy into pressure energy. The natural gas flows in diffusers were numerically calculated using the navier-stokes equations with the RSM (reynolds stress model). The behavior of gas dynamic parameters was analyzed under...

We construct investor sentiment of UK stock market using the procedure of principal component analysis. Using sentiment-augmented EGARCH component model, we analyse the impacts of sentiment on market excess return, the permanent component of market volatility and the transitory component of...

Estimation of generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) with non-nested random effects structures requires the approximation of high-dimensional integrals. Many existing methods are tailored to the low-dimensional integrals produced by nested designs. We explore the modifications that are required...

Among alignment-free methods for sequence comparison, the model of k-word frequencies is a well-developed one. However, most existing word-based methods neglect relationships among k-word frequencies, while a few others focus on the correlation of k-words but ignore the word frequency itself. In...

<title>Abstract</title> This article documents the authors' experience with the modeling, simulation, and analysis of a university transportation system, using the TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System (TRANSIMS). The processes of data preparation and network coding are described, followed by the...

The generalized persistence (GP) model, developed in the context of estimating “value added” by individual teachers to their students’ current and future test scores, is one of the most flexible value-added models in the literature. Although developed in the educational setting, the GP...

The supersonic separation is a novel technology in the natural gas dehydration for its compact design and fewer emissions. The other fascinating advantage is that the diffuser can convert kinetic energy into pressure energy to improve the energy efficiency. The mechanism of the pressure recovery...

We present a method to develop simple option pricing approximation formulas for a fractional Heston model, where the volatility process is defined by means of a fractional integration of a diffusion process. This model preserves the short-time behaviour of the Heston model, at the same time it...