This paper aims at contributing to the empirical literature about the impact of R&D subsidies on firm performances by providing recent micro-evidence from Italy. We evaluate grant effects on the innovation and market results of firms selected for funding in the short and medium run using a counterfactual approach. Results show that the innovative performance improves only temporarily, and no si...

This paper reviews and documents methodology for fitting hidden Markov switching models to New Zealand GDP data. A primary objective is to better understand the utility of these methods for modelling growth and volatility regimes present in the New Zealand data and their interaction. Properties of the models are developed together with a description of the estimation methods, including use of t...

This research explores the growth performance of three potential medicinal plants namely, Bajradanti (Potentilla flugens), Chutro (Breberisaristata), and Timur (Xanthoxylumarmatum) cultivated at nursery of Institute of Forestry with the application of tunnel, shaded and open beds treatment each with 4.0 m x 1.0 m size and constant supportive facilities of manure, irrigation and care. From the m...

In this paper, the performances of potential zeolite membranes were estimated by the Maxwell-Stefan model and then they were placed in Robeson plot of propylene/propane separation. Additionally, the effects of feed pressure and the mole fraction of propylene in the feed on both the propylene permeabilities and membrane permselectivities were investigated. The results showed that zeolite membran...

The goal of elastography is to image the shear stiffness of tissue for cancer diagnosis and the focus of this paper is on single frequency elastographic data. Assuming that the measured displacement of the propagating shear wave satisfies the acoustic wave equation, the shear modulus μ can be recovered by solving a first-order partial differential equation in the inverse problem. To capture pos...

— This paper review the present technologies for the fabrication of solar cells and modules based on the most common semiconductors namely silicon, CuInGaSe(S) and CdTe materials as well as on III-V concentrated photovoltaic cells and modules. For silion technology, we give insights on the growth of monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers and then we describe the most common solar c...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different levels of echinacea (echinacea purpurea) methanol extract on the growth performances (final weight (fw), daily growth ratio (dgr), feed conversion rate (fcr), voluntary feed intake (vfi) and protein efficiency ratio (per) and some of hematological parameters (hemoglobin (hb), hematocrit (hct), red blood cell (rbc) and white blo...

Kernelized learning algorithms have seen a steady growth in popularity during the last decades. The procedure to estimate the performances of these kernels in real applications is typical computationally demanding due to the process of hyper-parameter selection. This is especially true for graph kernels, which are computationally quite expensive. In this paper, we study an approach that substit...