This chapter provides an assessment of the impact of the major political and institutional factors on establishing new businesses in the State of Qatar in the long run using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. ...

We consider the steady heat conduction problem within a thermal isotropic and homogeneous square ring composite reinforced by nonoverlapping and randomly distributed carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We treat the CNTs as rigid line ...

Likelihood-based and bootstrap confidence intervals for the quantiles of the generalized exponential distribution based on record values are developed. Intervals for the difference of quantiles based on two independent ...

SiNx and SiNx: Tb3+ thin layers deposited by reactive magnetron co-sputtering have been studied with the aim of optimizing the light management in Si solar cells. Those Si-based layers are developed to be compatible with ...

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Over the last few decads, the metal nanoparticles (MNPs) have been extensively studied because of their attractive optical and electronic properties related to the quantum size effect in addition to their promising ...

Animal populations are often highly grouped. For example, fish can form large, widely scattered schools with few fish in between. Even rare species of animals may form small groups that are hard to find. Applying standard ...

In this work, we demonstrate the connection between the solutions of approximate vector variational inequalities and approximate efficient solutions of corresponding nonsmooth vector optimization problems via generalized ...