Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking anticompetitive transitions straight away, authorities might choose to negotiate with the merging parties and allow the transactions to proceed with modifications that restore or preserve the competition in the involved markets. We study a sample of 167 mergers that were under the European...

This paper presents two new classes of Müntz functions which are called Jacobi-Müntz the first and second types. These newly generated satisfy in self-adjoint fractional Sturm-Liouville problems thus they have some spectral properties such as: orthogonality, completeness, three-term recurrence relations so on. With respect to these orthogonal projections their error bounds derived. Also, type q...

In this article, using generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) methods, free vibration of a thin annular plate coupled with two open circuit piezoelectric layers, is numerically studied based on the classical plate theory. The governing differential equations with respective boundary conditions are derived and transformed into a set of algebraic equations by implementing the GDQ rule, then so...

Abstract: In the present paper, the modified cubic B-spline differential quadrature method (MCB-DQM) has been implemented for the numerical computation of two-dimensional biological population model (BPM). The method is based on differential quadrature in which the weighting coefficients are computed by using MCB as a set of basis functions. We present three test problems to confirm the efficie...