BACKGROUND A Quality Assurance model was rolled out in Bihar, India. It had two components: external and internal monitoring and giving feedback for action. The parameters included infrastructure and policy, equipment maintenance, stock supply and aseptic measures. METHODS The performance and gradation into good/average/poor was measured based on the scores translated from the data collected ...

The relationship between economic growth and energy consumption is one of the hot topics in economic research. There are many literatures concern about this topic from theoretical and empirical viewpoint. This paper applies panel unit root, heterogeneous panel cointegration and production function to investigate the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth within a multivaria...

The article characterizes the lexical factors influencing allocation of unique morphemes (affixal and root morphemes), such as semantics word, its belonging to active or passive language stock, scope use stylistic colouring word.

This study developed an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) compliant method for the estimation of above-ground carbon (AGC) in forest stands using remote sensing technology. A multi-level morphological active contour (MMAC) algorithm was employed to obtain tree-level metrics (tree height (LH), crown radius (LCR), competition index (LCI), and stem diameter (LDBH)) from an airborne ...

This paper considers a diversified world stock index in a continuous financial market with the growth optimal portfolio (GOP) as the reference unit or benchmark. Diversified broadly based portfolios, which include major world stock market indices, are shown to approximate the GOP. It is demonstrated that a key financial quantity is the drift of the discounted GOP, which can be expressed explici...

Stock market has been developed for over twenty years, and has gone deeply into all aspects of daily economic life and attracted more and more Therefore, researches on finding internal rules and establishing an efficient stock forecast model to help investors minimize risks and maximize returns are very practical and amazing. In this paper, a hybrid model FTSGA based on fuzzy time series and ge...

the presence of bubbles in the markets and its formation has been regarded by economists and they have been looking to develop methods that can be recognized by using appropriate method for the formation of bubbles. in this paper, first, the formation of bubbles is tested using the new unit root test known as phillips test (generalized sup adf test) for 50 companies in the tehran stock exchange...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the species and breeding density of ac a roid mites in the stored rhizomatic traditional Chinese medicinal materials in Anhui province, China, in order to supply evidences for control and prevention of such species. METHODS The stored traditional Chinese medicinal materials of root-stock origins were collected in 30 herb stores and warehouses in 17 cities across Anhui...

This paper is in the line of the recent literature on weak instruments, which, following the seminal approach of Staiger and Stock (1997) and Stock and Wright (2000) captures weak identification by drifting population moment conditions. In contrast with most of the existing literature, we do not specify a priori which parameters are strongly or weakly identified. We rather consider that weaknes...

A small monthly macroeconometric model of the Canadian economy built around three cointegrating relationships linking financial and real variables is estimated over the 1975-2002 period. One of the cointegrating relationships allows the identification of a supply shock as the only shock affecting permanently the stock market and a demand shock leading to important transitory stock market overva...