Although Macedonia is among the top emigration countries in the world, and in spite of the fact that private transfers from abroad have covered more than 50% of the trade deficit in the last ten years, relatively little is known about the determinants of the remittances and their impact on the macroeconomic stability of the Macedonian economy. The purpose of our paper is to offer an econometric...

A previous model where the low-lying axial-vector mesons are dynamically generated, implementing unitarity in coupled channels in the vector-pseudoscalar (V P ) meson interaction, is applied to evaluate the decay widths of the a1(1260) and b1(1235) axial-vector mesons into πγ. Unlike the case of the a1, the b1 radiative decay is systematically underestimated at tree level. In this work we evalu...

Estimation of the I(2) cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model is considered. Without further restrictions, estimation of the I(1) model is by reduced-rank regression (Anderson (1951)). Maximum likelihood estimation of I(2) models, on the other hand, always requires iteration. This paper presents a new triangular representation of the I(2) model. This is the basis for a new estimation p...

We demonstrate the existence of vector Helmholtz-Gauss (vHzG) and vector Laplace-Gauss beams that constitute two general families of localized vector beam solutions of the Maxwell equations in the paraxial approximation. The electromagnetic components are determined starting from the scalar solutions of the two-dimensional Helmholtz and Laplace equations, respectively. Special cases of the vHzG...

The codeword searching sequence is sometimes very vital to the efficiency of a vector quantization (VQ) encoding algorithm. In this paper, we evaluate some necessary criteria for the derivation of an optimal searching sequence and derive the optimal searching sequence based on such criteria.

Traditional literature on statistical quality control discusses separately multivariate control charts for independent processes and univariate control charts for autocorrelated processes. We extend univariate residual monitoring to the multivariate environment, and propose using vector autoregressive residuals (VAR) to monitor multivariate processes in the presence of serial correlation. We ma...

A covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA with a size of 5.9 kb was isolated from a strain producing streptothricins , Streptomyces lavendulae No. 1080, and its restriction map was determined. Colonies of the plasmid-carrying strain formed pocks on the lawn of the plasmid-free derivatives of the same organism. The pock-forming ability of pTA4001 was confirmed by transformation of S. lividans with ...

In this paper, we propose a face recognition algorithm based on a combination of vector quantization (VQ) and Markov stationary features (MSF). The VQ algorithm has been shown to be an effective method for generating features; it extracts a codevector histogram as a facial feature representation for face recognition. Still, the VQ histogram features are unable to convey spatial structural infor...

We summarize main mechanisms to realize the vector manifestation (VM), in which the massless vector meson becomes the chiral partner of pion, at the critical temperature in hot QCD within the framework of the model based on the hidden local symmetry. Then, we show a recent analysis on the direct photon-π-π coupling which measures the validity of the vector dominance (VD) of the electromagnetic ...