For period t, let qt = f(vt) + τt, where qt denotes measured output quantity, f(⋅) denotes a production function, vt = (v1t, ..., vnt) denotes a vector of n input quantities, τt denotes total factor productivity (TFP), and all variables are in natural-log form. Then, f(vt) = , for 0 < αit < 1 and = 1, is a Cobb-Douglas (CD) 1st-order log-form approximation of a production function. If f(⋅) is a...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function of manufacturing industry in Jordanian economy. Manufacturing industry can be considered as the fourth large one in Jordanian economy. In last decade, the growth rate in this sector is the second one after transport and communications. The gross fixed capital formation in manufacturing is the third one...

Influence among individuals is at the core of collective social phenomena such as the dissemination of ideas, beliefs or behaviors, social learning and the diffusion of innovations. Different mechanisms have been proposed to implement inter-agent influence in social models from the voter model, to majority rules, to the Granoveter model. Here we advance in this direction by confronting the rece...

the production function relates total product P to the labor L, capital C, land T (terrain), and other inputs that combine to produce it. The function expresses a technological relationship. It describes the maximum output obtainable, at the existing state of technological knowledge, from given amounts of factor inputs. Put differently, a production function is simply a set of recipes or techni...

Example-based machine translation (EBMT) is a promising translation method for speechto-speech translation because of its robustness. It retrieves example sentences similar to the input and adjusts their translations to obtain the output. However, it has problems in that the performance degrades when input sentences are long and when the style of inputs and that of the example corpus are differ...