in this article, the effectiveness of eight different technical indexes including simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential moving average, relative strength, commodity channel, stochastic, money flow and demand are examined by comparison between indexes returns with buy and hold returns. the results shows the return of buy and hold strategy is more than technical indexes in t...

JEL Classification Numbers: E 31, E 52

tourism industry has been the fastest and the most income-generating industry in the first decade of the third millennium. it has been for many countries including some of oic member countries a source of foreign exchange and contributed into their development. in this paper, we try to test empirically whether tourism expansion has had any significant effect on economic growth of oic member cou...

This paper considers a simple test for the correct specification of linear spatial autoregressive models, assuming that the choice of the weight matrix  is true. We derive the limiting distributions of the test under the null hypothesis of correct specification and a sequence of local alternatives. We show that the test is free of nuisance parameters asymptotically under the null and prove th...

In a previous study, we synthesized a series of peptides containing simple sequence repeats, (KW)(n)-NH(2) (n = 2,3,4 and 5) and determined their antimicrobial and hemolytic activities, as well as their mechanism of antimicrobial action. However, (KW)(5) showed undesirable cytotoxicity against RBC cells. In order to identify the mechanisms behind the hemolytic and cytotoxic activities of (KW)(5...

This paper considers a single equation cointegrating model and proposes the locally best invariant and unbiased (LBIU) test for the null hypothesis of cointegration. We derive the asymptotic local power functions and compare them with the standard residualbased test, and we show that the LBIU test is more powerful in a wide range of local alternatives. Then, we conduct a Monte Carlo simulation ...

Neurological diseases are a significant health threat, often presenting through abnormalities in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals during seizures. In recent years, machine learning (ML) technologies have been explored as means of automated EEG pathology diagnosis. However, existing ML-based binary classification methods largely focus on extracting EEG-related features, which may lead to poor ...

ICA is applied to multi-channel vibration measurements of a 35 kW cage induction motor to fuse the information of several channels, and provide a robust and reliable fault detection routine. Independent components are found from the measurement data set with FastICA algorithm, and their PSD estimates are calculated with Welch’s method. A SVM based classification routine is applied to the PSD es...