In placing capital market imperfections at the center of emerging market crises, the theoretical literature has associated a liquidity crisis with low foreign investment and the exit of investors from the crisis economy. However, a liquidity crisis is equally consistent with an inflow of foreign capital in the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). To support this hypothesis, we use a firm-lev...

A DSP-based measurement system dedicated to the vibration analysis on rotating machines was designed and realized. Vibration signals are on-line acquired and processed to obtain a continuos monitoring of the machine status. In case of fault, the system is capable of isolating the fault with a high reliability. The paper describes in detail the approach followed to built up fault and unfault mod...

Connecting rod bearing (CRB) is an important component which joins the reciprocating and rotating movements together in the internal combustion engine (ICE). It is very difficult to identify health status of CRB because of variable working process, complicated excitation and distribution sources, and lack of fault samples. Support vector machine (SVM), which has excellent capability in small da...

If the system under test has multiple interfaces/ports and these are physically distributed then in testing we place a tester at each port. If these testers cannot directly communicate with one another and there is no global clock then we are testing in the distributed test architecture. If the distributed test architecture is used then there may be input sequences that cannot be applied in tes...

Motorcycles have become a mean of transportation in our rural and urban area Nigeria. This cross sectional study was conducted Abeokuta Ogun State to assess the work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) among motorcyclist between October 2021 January 2022 using snowball techniques. A structured modified Nordic Musculoskeletal disorder questionnaire (SNMQ) administered four hundred fifty (...

BACKGROUND High-grade blunt hepatic and/or splenic injuries (BHSI) remain a great challenge for trauma surgeons. The main aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics, mortality rates, and outcomes of high-grade BHSI in motorcyclists and car occupants hospitalized for treatment of traumatic injuries in a Level I trauma center in southern Taiwan. METHODS High-grade BHSI are defined...

In the present work, an online fault prognosis strategy is developed for proactive abnormality management. For online prognosis, the fault degradation process should be well revealed. To well capture the evolution process, the proposed approach includes three components, First, the stability factor is defined to identify those significant faulty variables that show degradation process. Second, ...