the present study aimed at investigating the existence of long memory properties in ten emerging stock markets across the globe. when return series exhibit long memory, it indicates that observed returns are not independent over time. if returns are not independent, past returns can help predict future returns, thereby violating the market efficiency hypothesis. it poses a serious challenge to ...

MSC: 62E15 62E17 65C60 Keywords: Finite-sample density Small sample asymptotics Saddlepoint approximation Score function a b s t r a c t To derive the exact density of a statistic, which can be intractable, is sometimes a difficult problem. The exact densities of estimates of the shift or regression parameters can be derived with the aid of score functions. Moreover, extremely accurate approxim...

background: mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) are important candidates for msc-based cellular therapy. current paradigm states that mscs support local progenitor cells in damaged tissue through paracrine signaling. therefore, study of paracrine effects and secretome of mscs could lead to the appreciation of mechanisms and molecules associated with the therapeutic effects of these cells. this study ...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are well known due to their immunomodulatory effect, but the exact mechanisms have not been defined. Several studies demonstrated that the exerted immunoregulatory effect of these cells could be mediated by paracrine factors to illustrate, cytokines, chemokine, and among which, extracellular vesicles are one of them to play a crucial role. Moreover, it is assumed t...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disorder of  the  central  nervous  system (cns), which mainly affects  young adults. activated t lymphocytes promote the neuro-inflammatory cascade of ms by secreting pro-inflammatory cytokines and play a significant role in its pathogenesis. t  lymphocytes may trigger the inflammation, which in turn leads to axonal...

The aim of this project is to develop systematic and general design procedures that can be used to develop non-linear model predictive controllers based on linear-parameter varying (LPV) embeddings. Recently, we proposed a tube-based MPC scheme which can be used to control non-linear systems represented in terms of an LPV embedding. Based on artificially constructed state constraints, a sequenc...