This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these challenges—with an emphasis on statistical measurement, identification, and casual inference. The essay then discusses the advantages, disadvant...

permeability can be directly measured using cores taken from the reservoir in the laboratory. due to high cost associated with coring, cores are available in a limited number of wells in a field. many empirical models, statistical methods, and intelligent techniques were suggested to predict permeability in un-cored wells from easy-to-obtain and frequent data such as wireline logs. the main obj...

in last decade, with the entry of spirituality in organizational and managementresearch, spirituality leadership, also, has attracted a considerable amount of attention.in this study, with a developmental approach and after using experts' opinions andliterature for identifying leaders' spiritual traits and behaviors, we aim to model themusing adaptive neural-fuzzy inference systems. e...

Recently many researches have studied technological innovation capabilities (TICs) and their impacts on firm’s competitive performance in the field of manufacturing industries. This paper pursued Yam et al. (2004) framework to study the relevance of TICs and firm's competitive performance in a mainly-service-based industry in Iran (ICT). Empirical data were collected through a questionnaire from...

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This paper presents a non-linear modeling framework that supports model development \in between" empirical and mechanistic modeling. A model is composed of a number of local models valid in diierent operating regimes. The local models are combined by smooth interpolation into a complete global model. It is illustrated how diierent kinds of empirical and mechanistic knowledge and models can be c...

This article describes an empirical study where use cases and class diagrams (semi-formal modeling) and Z language (formal modeling) were used to make a requirements specification of an information system. The study presents some benefits of formal modeling for the quality improvement during the requirements specification of an information system. The empirical study was developed based on a re...

This paper presents a non-linear modeling framework that supports model development \in between" empirical and mechanistic modeling. A model is composed of a number of local models valid in di erent operating regimes. The local models are combined by smooth interpolation into a complete global model. It is illustrated how di erent kinds of empirical and mechanistic knowledge and models can be c...

This paper discusses the econometric methodology of general-to-specific modeling, in which the modeler simplifies an initially general model that adequately characterizes the empirical evidence within his or her theoretical framework. Central aspects of this approach include the theory of reduction, dynamic specification, model selection procedures, model selection criteria, model comparison, e...

This paper discusses the econometric methodology of general-to-specific modeling, in which the modeler simplifies an initially general model that adequately characterizes the empirical evidence within his or her theoretical framework. Central aspects of this approach include the theory of reduction, dynamic specification, model selection procedures, model selection criteria, model comparison, e...