In this article the structure of subjective well-being (SWB), the relationship between household income and SWB and mean differences in components of SWB in China and the USA are investigated. Both China and the USA were characterized in a three-factor model of SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect). Household income was more strongly positively correlated with the three m...

Because of external financing costs, private business owners often need to self-finance new investment projects. These self-financing needs create an incentive for business owners to hold financial assets whose payoffs are positively correlated with self-financing needs. If this effect is aggregated, expected returns on financial assets should be negatively correlated with aggregate private inv...

Nearly all extant land plants possess stomata, the epidermal structures that mediate gas exchange between the plant and the environment. The developmental pathways, cell division patterns, and molecules employed in the generation of these structures are simple examples of processes used in many developmental contexts. One specific module is a set of "master regulator" basic helix-loop-helix tra...

This paper adopts a New Keynesian approach to analyze the relationship between nominal interest rates and prices. In this new framework, both a positive relation between interest rates and price levels (i.e., a positive Gibson effect) and a negative relation between interest rates and subsequent price changes (i.e., a negative Fama-Fisher effect) arise when money is supplied inelastically and p...

Feature model validation aims to identify errors in feature models. The two major errors, called dead features and false variable features, are caused by contradictory feature relationships in a feature model. Current existing approaches use constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) and CSP solvers to identify these feature model errors. However, CSP is a NPcomplete problem and CSP solvers reveal a...

This paper develops a new framework and tools, and reexamines Fama-French regressions. For Fama-French portfolios, we consider a continuous-time factor model with a specific error component structure implied by the underlying asset pricing theory. The model is then analyzed as a continuous-time multivariate regression with a general martingale differential error, allowing for time-varying and s...

This paper presents a technique to miniaturize bandstop filters applicable for radiofrequency/microwave applications. The technique comprises the use of small resonant inclusions bridged with a slot, etched from the metallic ground plane underneath the filter’s microstrip line segment. Unlike artificial magnetic materials, for instance split-ring resonators (SRRs) that respond to vertical magne...

In this paper, three novel designs of broadband patch antenna are proposed. The first design propose broadband slotted equilateral triangular patch antenna (ETPA) operating on frequency around 1800 MHz. The second design propose broadband slotted right angle isosceles triangular patch antenna RAITPA operating on frequency around 2400 MHz. The third design proposes wideband V-Slotted and shorted...

This paper presents different slotted structures such as U-slot, half U-slot, half π-slot and π-slot to achieve the dual band characteristics of the antenna etched on a glass epoxy substrate (εr= 4.3) is suspended over the ground plane with an air gap for all slotted structures [1-2]. A comparative analysis has been made for the U and half U, π and half π designs are proposed by reducing area t...