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...

the problem of downward continuation of the gravity field from the earth’s surface to the reference ellipsoid arises from the fact that the solution to the boundary value problem for geoid determination without applying stokes formula is sought in terms of the disturbing potential on the ellipsoid but the gravity observations are only available on the earth’s surface. downward continuation is a...

formulae expressing explicitly the coefficients of an expansion of double jacobi polynomials which has been partially differentiated an arbitrary number of times with respect to its variables in terms of the coefficients of the original expansion are stated and proved. extension to expansion of triple jacobi polynomials is given. the results for the special cases of double and triple ultraspher...

the combined effect of non-newtonian rheology and irreversible boundary reaction on dispersion in a herschel-bulkley fluid through a conduit (pipe/channel) is studied by using generalized dispersion model. the study explains the development of dispersive transport following the injection of a tracer in terms of three effective transport coefficients namely exchange, convective and dispersion co...

on the basis of a reproducing kernel space, an iterative algorithm for solving the inverse problem for heat equation with a nonlocal boundary condition is presented. the analytical solution in the reproducing kernel space is shown in a series form and the approximate solution vn is constructed by truncating the series to n terms. the convergence of vn to the analytical solution is also proved. ...