This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...

the main purpose of the study is to examine the causal relationship between government revenues and expenditures of the jordan government over the period from 1990 to 2011 using granger causality and vecm tests methodology. which provides channels of causation between government revenues (gr) and government expenditures (ge).the empirical results show that bidirectional causality running betwee...

Ratios of universal enumerable semimeasures corresponding to hypotheses are investigated as a solution for statistical composite hypotheses testing if an unbounded amount of computation time can be assumed. Influence testing for discrete timeseries is defined using generalized structural equations. Several ideal tests are introduced, and it is argued that when Halting information is transmitted...

Much research has been conducted on intra-village consumption smoothing based on the full risk sharing hypothesis. However, the conventional tests ignore geographic network effects, which are potentially important because of transaction costs and spatially covariate shock. Employing spatial panel econometric models, this study extends the empirical tests of full risk sharing to incorporate geog...

There has been a lot of interest in the use of randomisation tests as a pedagogic alternative to hypothesis tests (Zieffler, 2012), although proposals to use randomisation tests in research are far from new (e.g. Hooton, 1991) with Good (2000) being an updated classic text in this area. This article will present a classroom activity that demonstrates the randomisation tests as a means of unders...