1 Chinese railway system serves as an important role for the economy of China and the travel needs 2 of its citizens. As China is subject to frequent earthquake events, it is important to investigate 3 how to strengthen the railway system to retain its service after earthquakes. This paper proposes a 4 comprehensive methodology to suggest the optimal investment plan using historical earthquake ...

Financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. Thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. The lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

This paper includes a brief survey illustrating the approach to information security (INFOSEC) investment taken by various organizations, as well as guidelines based on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) management plans to allocate limited funds among proposals for enhancing National Airspace System (NAS) INFOSEC.

The purpose of this study was to apply new methods econometric models the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) physical assets, by integrating investments such as maintenance, technology, sustainability, and technological upgrades, propose a means evaluate Investment (LCI), with emphasis on sustainability. Sustainability is recurrent theme existing studies will be concern in coming decades. As result, e...

This article empirically studies the risk levels of individual pension portfolios, investment efficiency and also diversification investors in Türkiye with a novel administrative data month-end snapshots December 2019. To examine taking behavior, level Turkish investors, we compute beta coefficients, total together idiosyncratic systematic risk, Sharpe Ratio, loss from under-diversification inv...

The research at University College London School of Medicine (UCLSM) is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Action Research, the Special Trustees of University College Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain. The studies have been carried out with the assistance of Dr. P. S. Tofts, Mr. D. Delpy and Mr. A. Chu of the Department of Medical Physics (UCLSM), and Mr. N.Taylor of Kin...

System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain information not directly related to the caller’s intended activity. In human–human conversation, interruptions are considered to be speech acts which intrinsi...

Introduction: In 3DCRT the number of therapeutic fields has dramatic impact on treatment results especially in stomach cancer. Traditionally, for radiotherapy of stomach cancer the therapeutic procedure was using two fields (AP- PA or AP Lateral with wedge) to achieve smooth and homogeneous dose distribution in tumor. But nowadays, adding lateral or oblique fields to aforement...