In this paper, an outlier detection method based on radial basis functions–principal component analysis (RBF-PCA) approach and Prescott method, a statistical detection approach, is proposed to detect the outlier in the complex system without clear mechanisms. Making full use of the capacity of neural networks on nonlinear mapping and the effect of Prescott method on outlier detection in linear ...

This paper investigates whether the effectiveness of contract enforcement affects the extent for firms to form R&D alliances. We first formalize in a model how weak contract enforcement is associated with a lower probability of observing a firm forming any R&D alliance. The model implies that such an association is further exacerbated if the firm perceives its partner as less trustworthy. Using...

This article addresses the ways in which education systems responded to aftermath of World War I with respect for nationalism and internationalism. It does so by drawing on theories internationalism through an analysis writings Daniel Prescott, American scholar who toured European schools middle 1920s. Influenced his experience frontline warfare as a volunteer driver France 1917, Prescott trave...