This Ph.D. thesis consists of a collection of four independent papers on economic analysis of access to justice. The research methodologies involve game theoretical and empirical analysis of litigation and settlement. <br/><br/>Chapter two investigates the institutional causes of delay in litigation....

Highly ordered crystalline and amorphous Si nanoarrays have been formed by using self-assembled monolayer of polystyrene nanospheres as a template followed by dry ion etching treatments. The template was removed by annealing at 8°C and pattern transfer process was revealed by atomic force...

Exact and asymptotic distributions of the maximum likelihood estimator of the autoregressive parameter in a first-order bifurcating autoregressive process with exponential innovations are derived. The limit distributions for the stationary, critical and explosive cases are unified via a single...

Parameter estimation based on the differences of two positive exponential family random variables is studied. Waiting time data, adjusted for idle times when necessary, are used for estimating the parameters in GI/G/1 queues. The sampling plan presented uses incomplete information on the...

First-principles calculations with the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave (FP-LAPW) method have been performed to investigate detailed electronic and linear optical properties of Sr<Subscript>2</Subscript>CuO<Subscript>2</Subscript>Cl<Subscript>2</Subsc ript>, which is a classical low-dimensional antiferromagnet (AFM) charge transfer (CT) insulator....<//subsc></subscript></subscript></subscript>

Snowmelt is the most important hydrological event in cold climates. However, snowmelt effects on suspended sediment (SS) and phosphorus (P) loss are poorly documented in Canada. Using two agricultural watersheds in Eastern Canada, this study aimed to quantify SS and P loss during the snowmelt...