Zhang et al. (Stat Sinica 18:1689–1705, <CitationRef CitationID="CR15">2008</CitationRef>) introduced an aliased effect-number pattern for two-level regular designs and proposed a general minimum lower-order confounding (GMC) criterion for choosing optimal designs. All the GMC <InlineEquation ID="IEq7"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$2^{n-m}$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <msup> <mn>2</mn> <mrow> <mi>n</mi> <mo>-</mo> <mi>m</mi> </mrow> </msup> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> designs with <InlineEquation ID="IEq8"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$N/4+1\le n\le...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></citationref>

Fermentative hydrogen production from cassava stillage was conducted to investigate the influences of temperature (37 °C, 60 °C, 70 °C) and initial pH (4-10) in batch experiments. Although the seed sludge was mesophilic anaerobic sludge, maximum hydrogen yield (53.8 ml...

Efficiency is a vital normative criterion used for economic analysis of law; however, there is no unanimity of opinion among scholars of law and economics on the definition of efficiency. This paper intends to clarify this confusion by critically reviewing three different definitions of...

Intentional misrepresentation (IM) or fraudulent misrepresentation in this paper is defined as a type of behaviours that one contracting party (representor) intentionally presents untrue information to another party (representee) for inducing the latter to contract with him. Why are IMs socially...

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