The inverse probability weighted generalized estimating equations approach (Robins et al. 1994; Robins et al. 1995), effectively removes bias and provides valid statistical inference for regression parameter estimation in marginal models when longitudinal data contain missing values. The validity of...

A model of strategic investment and trade is incorporated in a politiacl economy framework of the Grossman-Helpman type to study the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the formulation of trade and industrial policies in the host country.

In this study, a new Pseudo-optimal Inexact Stochastic Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets Linear Programming (PIS-IT2FSLP) energy model is developed to support energy system planning and environment requirements under uncertainties for Xiamen City. The PIS-IT2FSLP model is based on an integration of...

The purpose of this study is to explore how companies in the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian wood products value-chains currently employ environmental performance measures (EPMs) in their communication and to study the existence of strategic element in the use of EPMs. The primary data for this...

The purpose of this study is to explore how companies in the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian wood products value-chains currently employ environmental performance measures (EPMs) in their communication and to study the existence of strategic element in the use of EPMs. The primary data for this...

Drought is one of the major natural disasters in the Loess Plateau of China. We aimed to reveal drought occurrence regularity, relations between different magnitudes of drought and precipitation intensity changes. Based on Chinese climate divisions and digital elevation model graphs of the Loess...

This paper presents a numerical and experimental analysis of the coupled heat and mass transfer mechanisms in the adsorbent of a waste-heat adsorption cooling system. A new three-dimensional non-equilibrium model is developed and used to investigate the simultaneous transport of heat and mass....

In this paper, we consider a strongly coupled model of nonlinear thermoelasticity describing the dynamics of materials with shape memory. The model is not amenable to analytical treatments and the development, analysis, and applications of effective numerical approximations for this model is in...

We numerically study the thermoelectric and thermal transport in ABA-stacked trilayer graphene in the presence of a strong magnetic field and disorder. We find that the thermoelectric conductivities display different asymptotic behaviors, depending on the ratio between the temperature and the...