This paper provides a Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund type strong law of large numbers for sequences of blockwise m-dependent random variables

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China over the past 25 years has increased faster than in any other economy. The net impact upon the Chinese economy appears to be highly favorable. A major portion of that FDI has been made by overseas Chinese, with assistance from a Mainland Chinese ministry...

This paper briefly introduced the issues of food safety and environmental pollution caused by pesticide residues in protected vegetables, discussed the status and problems of pesticide use in the protected vegetables in Shandong Province, and analyzed the main factors leading to the pesticide...

Counterparty credit risk (CCR), a key driver of the 2007-08 credit crisis, has become one of the main focuses of the major global and U.S. regulatory standards. Financial institutions invest large amounts of resources employing Monte Carlo simulation to measure and price their counterparty...

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...

This paper considers the problem of estimating spot volatility in the simultaneous presence of Lévy jumps and market microstructure noise. We propose to use the pre-averaging approach and the threshold kernel-based method to construct a spot volatility estimator, which is robust to both...

In contrast to the ever-increasing focus on China's CO2 emissions, little attention has been given to its CH4 emissions, the second largest greenhouse gas. Presented in this paper is a comprehensive assessment of the CH4 emissions in Mainland China by source and region based on the latest...

In this work, we investigate how the random long-range interactions (RLRIs) affect the directed transport properties of inertial particles in networks. The particles are driven by periodic time-dependent external forces, under the influence of an asymmetric periodic potential of the inertial...