This paper presents a Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) system that can detect and isolate nuclear power plant (NPP) faults occurring in interacting systems. The proposed methodology combines two tools: observer based residual generation and neural network pattern matching into a powerful, hybrid diagnostic system. A computer-based model of a commercial Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) is used as ...

The knowledge-capital model acknowledges that FDI has both vertical as well as horizontal elements. However, there is much controversy with regard to the empirical relevance of vertical FDI. We re-investigate this issue by looking at FDI at a more disaggregated level, using data on bilateral FDI in manufacturing and services for a number of industrialised countries. Our results are strongly sup...

The aim of this study is to the long run relationship among Foreign Direct Investment, Trade (Imports & Exports) and Economic growth for Pakistan. The co-integrating VAR framework is used to find the relationship over the period of 1965 to 2005. The results show that there are two long run relationships exist between GDP, Imports and Exports and FDI. First long run relationship shows that both ...

To produce a torque about a joint in the human body there must be sufficient drive to excite motor neurones in the spinal cord to discharge action potentials. The number of motor neurones that are recruited, and the rate at which those motor neurones discharge action potentials, is directly linked to the summation of twitch forces in the muscle. However, the potential to generate a torque also ...

The objective of the paper is twofold. First, is to examine causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Malaysia and second, to look at the impact of FDI on the stability of economic growth and the impact of growth on stability of FDI. Using time series data, the paper implements the recent Toda and Yamamoto’s (1995) non-causality test to establish the dir...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) since inception Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 as an extended version geographically weighted regression. Design/methodology/approach The panel data are used examine spatial temporal dynamics magnitude direction China's outward FDI stock its flow from 2011 2015 at a country level. ...

The cortico-motoneuronal system (CMS), i.e. the monosynaptic projection from primary motor cortex to motoneurons in lamina IX of the spinal cord is, among all mammals, best developed in humans. Increasing evidence suggests that the CMS is crucially important for skilled individuated finger movements. Little is known about to what extent the strength of the CMS differs between hand muscles. Here...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a major factor in the globalization scenario. However, contrary to the core pro-market tenets of the economic school supporting globalization, the flows of FDI have grown side by side with a whole array of FDI subsidies dispensed by the “visible hand” of the state. Scholars have studied the links between FDI and economic growth and between subsidies and actual...

Abstract We study the impact of service trade restrictions on bilateral greenfield FDI projects in four business services sectors within a gravity model framework. Project level data for 43 destination countries and up to 41 source spanning years 2014–2020 stems from fDi Markets database OECD's Service Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). Using negative binomial estimator explain number projects...

Conclusive evidence supporting the widely held view that developing countries should draw on foreign direct investment (FDI) to spur economic development is surprisingly hard to come by. We raise the proposition that results on the growth impact of FDI are ambiguous because highly aggregated FDI data, used in virtually all previous empirical studies, blur the differences between resourceseeking...