This paper studies the semiconductor industry from three perspectives: historical, entrepreneurial and supply chain management. After a brief introduction, the paper begins by tracing the history and evolution of the semiconductor industry including the two seminal enterprises: Shockley...

As an important extension of the regular kappa statistic, the weighted kappa statistic has been widely used to assess the agreement between two procedures for independent matched-pair ordinal data. For clustered matched-pair ordinal data, based on the delta method and sampling techniques, a...

Based on the cost efficiency of individual banks, this paper constructs an indicator to clarify Chinese regional banking system’s credit allocation efficiency in accordance with the panel data of the provinces and central-government-administered cities of China. When applying this...

Motivated by the recent advances in the kappa statistic for the clustered physician–patients dichotomous data, we extend the development for the polytomous data. For the clustered physician–patients polytomous data, based on its special correlation and covariance structure, we propose a...

In this paper, we consider the optimal dividend problem with transaction costs when the incomes of a company can be described by an upward jump model. Both fixed and proportional costs are considered in the problem. The value function is defined as the expected total discounted dividends up to...

In direct coal liquefaction, research and development on gas-liquid-solid three-phase reactors is an important project. A model for tubular reactors in direct coal liquefaction is proposed. Since the ratio length-to-diameter is very large, both the gas and slurry phases are assumed to move as...

This paper investigates a new test for normality that is easy for biomedical researchers to understand and easy to implement in all dimensions. In terms of power comparison against a broad range of alternatives, the new test outperforms the best known competitors in the literature as...

This paper considers a dependent risk model with diffusion for the surplus of an insurer, in which a current premium rate will be adjusted after a claim occurs and the adjusted rate is determined by the amount of the claim. At the same time, the diffusion is changed correspondingly. Using...

The entropy evolution property of a single-mode light field interacting with V-type three-level atoms via intensity-dependent coupling has been studied, and the influence of detuning of light field and initial photon number on entropy evolution of field is discussed. It is found that if detuning...

The quadrature squeezing properties of an atom laser originating from atomic Bose–Einstein condensate interacting with light field are studied. We find that the squeezing properties of the atom laser are dependent on the initial light field interacting with the atomic Bose–Einstein...