Aggregative data infrastructures (ADIs) are information systems where organizations can find the tools to integrate their data sources to form uniform and richer information spaces of object metadata descriptions. Novel sustainable approaches for the realization of ADIs are based on the adoption of ADI enabling technologies which support the realization, maintenance and upgrade of ADIs and prom...

The paper explains the growth –inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutual depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and hence productivity growth. The regional government can in‡uence the economy by changing international trans...

Lin, Qun Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2013. A Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Approach To Goodness of Fit U-Statistic Testing With Side Information. Major Professor: Hanxiang Peng. Motivated by applications to goodness of fit U-statistic testing, the jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) of Jing, et al. (2009) is justified with an alternative approach, and the Wilks theorem for vector U-sta...

better understanding and recognizing the amount of cultural development in iranian provinces and comparing them, causes a particular attention and helps to recognize their weaknesses, strengths, potentialities and deficiencies. the purpose of this paper is to analyze cultural development indicators in iran. the writers of this article present an applied research and use a comparative method. us...

Lin, Qun. Ph.D., Purdue University, December, 2013. A Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Approach To Goodness of Fit U-Statistics Testing With Side Information. Major Professor: Dr. Hanxiang Peng. Motivated by applications to goodness of fit U-statistics testing, the jackknife empirical likelihood of Jing, et al. (2009) is justified with an alternative approach, and the Wilks theorem for vector U-s...