Despite its paramount importance in the empirical growth literature, productivity convergence analysis has three problems that have yet to be resolved: (1) little attempt been made explore hierarchical structure of industry-level datasets; (2) technology heterogeneity largely ignored; and (3) cross-sectional dependence rarely allowed for. This paper aims address these within a panel data framew...

Skin cancer is one of the most severe diseases, and medical imaging among main tools for diagnosis. The images provide information on evolutionary stage, size, location tumor lesions. This paper focuses classification skin lesion considering a framework four experiments to analyze performance Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in distinguishing different CNNs are based transfer learning, taki...

The sector of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) is characterised by high rates of firm fluctuation, rapid changes in technological progress (e.g., in the software industry) as well as high interdependencies between subsectors (e.g., consultancy and engineering). These features give rise to fuzzy internal and external sectoral boundaries and make it difficult to apply common, basicall...

In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric evidence of the impact of trade protection on household poverty in Ghana. The study examines the impact of Ghana’s trade policy reforms in the 1990s on poverty. We match trade policy measures at the two-digit ISIC level to household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99. We emphasize the possibility that the effect of protection o...

Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians . Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks . By now, the deep convolutional neural networks are on par with human dermatologist . This abstract is dedicated on developing a Deep Learning method for ISIC [5] 2017 Skin Lesion Detection Competition hoste...

In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 to represent the tariff for the industry in which the household head is employed. We examine the possibility that the effect of protection on in...

In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 to represent the tariff for the industry in which the household head is employed. We examine the possibility that the effect of protection on in...