Abstract Negative foreign direct investment (divestment) between countries has received little attention in international macroeconomics. This is the first country-level study to investigate whether conventional drivers of bilateral (FDI) have a reverse, but symmetric, impact on divestment (FDD). Using negative and positive FDI data 126 or territories, from 2005 2018, we find that gravity varia...

This paper presents an elementary proof of the HannenhalliPevzner theorem on the reversal distance of two signed permutations. It uses a single PQ-tree to encode the various features of a permutation. The parameters called hurdles and fortress are replaced by a single one, whose value is computed by a simple and efficient algorithm.

We present in this paper methods to compute the signed Euclidean distance to surfaces obtained by the intersection (respectively union or difference) of two solids (in two or three dimensions). These implementations can replace min/max or R-functions traditionally used to model set operations used with implicit surfaces.

Abstract: The bootstrap is a simple and straightforward method for calculating approximated biases, standard deviations, confidence intervals, testing statistical hypotheses, and so forth, in almost any nonparametric estimation problem. In this paper we describe a bootstrap method for variance that is designed directly for hypothesis testing in case of fuzzy data based on Yao-Wu signed distance.

In this paper, we examine the reliability of a parallel system. We use the level (λ, ρ) interval-valued fuzzy numbers to find the fuzzy reliability of parallel systems and obtain the estimated reliability of the systems in the fuzzy sense by employing the signed distance method.