This article maps out how different actors are involved in the promotion and mediation of the Olympics. It looks at the roles of, first, the nation-state, through an analysis of the promotional materials; second, the art world and global companies, through an analysis of the touring exhibition...

In longitudinal studies, nonlinear mixed-effects models have been widely applied to describe the intra- and the inter-subject variations in data. The inter-subject variation usually receives great attention and it may be partially explained by time-dependent covariates. However, some covariates...

We consider strong limit theorems for Markov chains in bi-infinite random environments. We first give a new proof of a strong limit theorem of Liu and Yang (1995) on the average of functions of non-homogeneous Markov chains by constructing a nonnegative martingale. As corollaries, for a Markov...

Downs (1962) and Thomson (1977) suggested that highway capacity expansion may produce counterproductive effects on the two-mode (auto and transit) transport system (Downs–Thomson Paradox). This paper investigates the occurrence of this paradox when transit authority can have different economic...

Latent class models with crossed subject-specific and test(rater)-specific random effects have been proposed to estimate the diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of a group of binary tests or binary ratings. However, the computation of these models are hindered by their complicated...

A significant proportion of patients used the internet to obtain information about their disease. Age, employment status, educational level, and household average monthly income had an effect on internet usage for LC information. The use of the internet could cause mixed emotional outcomes among...

Because the shape, intensity, and texture features of classic hail echo cores are easy to observe, these features are used to examine the matching methods of classic hail echo cores by using template-based and feature-based matching algorithms in this study. We first introduce the shape,...

Despite numerous studies have been devoted to test the rational expectations hypothesis, as well as the efficient market hypothesis in the housing market since the 1980s, there are still many questions need to be answered. Hence the last decade the intense housing price volatility in China...

In this paper, heat transfer and flow in a lean-to passive solar greenhouse has been studied. A mathematical model based on energy equilibrium and a one-dimensional mathematical model for the unsaturated porous medium have been founded and developed to predict the temperature and moisture...