The method of moments proposed by Carrasco and Florens (2000) permits to fully exploit the information contained in the characteristic function and yields an estimator which is asymptotically as effi cient as the maximum likelihood estimator. However, this estimation procedure depends on a regularization or tuning parameter α that needs to be selected. The aim of the present paper is to provide...

Performance measurement is the basis of management with regard to controlling activities of an enterprise. Development of appropriate indicators and measurement techniques lead to many problems. Th e majority of enterprises begin to evaluate the effi ciency, by the implementation of fi nancial indicators that are practically incalculable. Only at a later stage, are measures used that are relate...

The co-delivery of molecular-targeted therapeutics for combination therapy is one of the hottest areas in biomedicine due to its ability to suppress drug toxicity and reduce drug resistance for effective cancer treatment. [ 1–6 ] Most of the targeted drugs, from monoclonal antibodies to small molecule kinase inhibitors, are still most effective in combination therapy. Combination of two or more...

A novel heteroleptic Ru II complex (BTC-2) employing 5,5 ′ -(2,2 ′ -bipyridine4,4 ′ -diyl)bis (thiophene-2-carboxylic acid) (BTC) as the anchoring group and 4,4 ′ dinonyl-2,2 ′ -bipiridyl and two thiocyanates as ligands is prepared. The photovoltaic performance and device stability achieved with this sensitizer are compared to those of the Z-907 dye, which lacks the thiophene moieties. For thin...

This paper develops an index of allocative effi ciency that depends upon the distribution of mark-ups across goods and is separable from an index of standard Ricardian gains from trade. It determines how changes in trade frictions affect allocative efficiency in an oligopoly model of international trade, decomposing the effect into the cost-change channel and the price-change channel. Formulas ...

Electron-beam fl ue gas treatment (EBFGT) technology has been applied in an industrial scale, EPS Pomorzany [1]. High removal effi ciency of SO2 (>90%) and NOx (ca. 70%) was obtained at 8 kGy absorbed dose. NOx removal needs much bigger energy consumption than that for SO2. Therefore, there is a need to fi nd a way to decrease energy consumption for NOx removal in this process. Electron acceler...

and low-work-function metals. [ 8 ] Generally, these interlayers have the function of bridging the Fermi energy of the electrode and the energy levels of the organic semiconductor and increasing the built-in electric fi eld in the devices. [ 6 ] Recently, we reported a new category of air stable material, ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidenefl uoride-trifl uoroethylene) (P(VDFTrFE)), as a univ...

In this research, Zn2SiO4 as a support and MnFe2O4 as a main photo-catalyst were individually syn-thesized and MnFe2O4 was fixed on Zn2SiO4 with solid state dispersion method. MnFe2O4 nano pho-to-catalyst was synthesized by co-precipitation method and reflux condition for 12 hours at 85°C in the presence of urea. For identification of catalysts Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) sp...

This paper studies a competitive cheap talk model with two senders. Each sender, who is responsible for a single project, only observes the return of his own project. Exactly one project will be implemented. Both senders share some common interests with the receiver, but at the same time have own project biases. Under simultaneous communication, all equilibria are shown to be partition equilibr...