This study estimates income effects of health based on observations in China, the largest developing economy in the world. We derive the basic analytical model treating health as a form of human capital in income production. The major findings of this study are: First, China’s experience suggests that health human capital may have played a role in its rapid income growth during the 1990s. Secon...

This paper deals with the critical issue of approximating the pre-exponential factor in semiclassical molecular dynamics. The pre-exponential factor is important because it accounts for the quantum contribution to the semiclassical propagator of the classical Feynman path fluctuations. Pre-exponential factor approximations are necessary when chaotic or complex systems are simulated. We introduc...

Drum-Buffer-Rope-based production planning and control (PPC) approaches provide production managers with effective tools to manage production disruptions and improve operational performance. The corner stone of these approaches is the proper selection of time-buffers which are considered as exogenously defined constant. However, the majority of real-world manufacturing systems are characterized...

The Cournot triopoly model may possess a triple chaotic attractor. In the paper, we present an approach for controlling the three coexisting chaotic attractors by means of steering the system dynamics from one attractor to another. The control scheme is based on predictive control. We give the design procedure and show by numerical results the effectiveness of the control in presence of the inp...

in this paper, stability analysis of walking gaits and robustness analysis are developed for a five-link and four-actuator biped robot. stability conditions are derived by studying unactuated dynamics and using the poincarã© map associated with periodic walking gaits. a stable gait is designed by an optimization process satisfying physical constraints and stability conditions. also, considering...

Correlation functions describing relaxation processes in proteins and other complex molecular systems are known to exhibit a nonexponential decay. The simulation study presented here shows that fractional Brownian dynamics is a good model for the internal dynamics of a lysozyme molecule in solution. We show that both the dynamic structure factor and the associated memory function fit well the c...

Innovation systems can be defined in a variety of ways: they can be national, regional, sectoral, or technological. They all involve the creation, diffusion, and use of knowledge. Systems consist of components, relationships among these, and their characteristics or attributes. The focus of this paper is on the analytical and methodological issues arising from various system concepts. There are...

The ability to correlate experimental ion mobility data with candidate structures from theoretical modeling provides a powerful analytical and structural tool for the characterization of biomolecules. In the present paper, a theoretical workflow is described to generate and assign candidate structures for experimental trapped ion mobility and H/D exchange (HDX-TIMS-MS) data following molecular ...