Availability and mobilization of revenue is the main essential with which an economy is managed and run. While planning or while making the budgets nations set revenue targets to be achieved. But later when the accounts are closed the actual collections of revenue through taxes or even the non-tax revenue collection would invariably be different as compared to the initial estimates and targets ...

been proposed. The THG is calibrated to overcome the discrepancies among potentiometers used for robot motion. The performance of the proposed system is tested on a robot with a single joint and the results are presented for a simple closed loop system. The robot is given fast, medium and slow responses as inputs such that a variation of 30 degrees is achieved in time intervals of 1, 2 and 3 se...

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT), employing as case studies the following two African countries: Botswana and Nigeria. Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of TOT on output is positive and negative for the two countries, respectively. I interpret these results as supportive of the 'resource...

In this paper we suggest a methodology to formulate a dynamic regression with variables observed at different time intervals. This methodology is applicable if the explanatory variables are observed more frequently than the dependent variable. We demonstrate this procedure by developing a forecasting model for Singapore’s quarterly GDP based on monthly external trade. Apart from forecasts, the ...

Lag-3 has emerged as an important molecule in T cell biology. We investigated the role of Lag-3 in conventional T cell (Tcon) and regulatory T cell (Treg) function in murine GVHD with the hypothesis that Lag-3 engagement diminishes alloreactive T cell responses after bone marrow transplantation. We demonstrate that Lag-3 deficient Tcon (Lag-3(-/-) Tcon) induce significantly more severe GVHD tha...

We derive estimators for the multiple lag process, a generalization of the lag process, via spectral representations of stationary processes by complex random spectral measures. We present estimators of transfer functions for the multiple lag model with a given vector of lags and derive a multiple-lag (quadratic) coherence which can be maximized to choose the best vector of lags in the minimum ...

Lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG-3) is a cell-surface molecule with diverse biologic effects on T cell function. We recently showed that LAG-3 signaling is important in CD4+ regulatory T cell suppression of autoimmune responses. Here, we demonstrate that LAG-3 maintains tolerance to self and tumor antigens via direct effects on CD8+ T cells using 2 murine systems. Naive CD8+ T cells express lo...

This paper addresses the robust consensus control design for input-delayed multi-agent systems subject to parametric uncertainties. To deal with the input delay, the Artstein model reduction method is employed by a state transformation. The input-dependent integral term that remains in the transformed system, due to the model uncertainties, is judiciously analysed. By carefully exploring certai...

Funding information PROMETEOII/2013/004; Conselleria d'Educació; Generalitat Valenciana, Grant/Award Number: TIN2014-56158-C4-4-P-AR; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Grant/Award Number: FPI-UPV 2014; Universitat Politècnica de València Summary The problem of output stabilization and disturbance rejection for input-delayed systems is tackled in this work. First, a suitable transformatio...

This paper investigates the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and vector error-correction models (VECM) in Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Senegal, Togo and Zambia for period 1970-2010. The ARDL results show that there is cointegration relation between ...