Building waste is a critical issue in current construction. Innovative design strategies are required to reduce the depletion of valuable materials and resources through providing flexible and versatile structures. This study focuses on the development of an industrial, flexible, and demountable wall panel construction system. The panel system consists of concrete blocks with steel connectors t...

This paper develops a method for testing for the presence of a single structural break in dynamic panel data models with a multi-factor error structure. The test statistic is developed by combining a modified version of the GMM approach of Robertson and Sarafidis (2015) with the testing procedure of De Wachter and Tzavalis (2012). We focus on the case where N is large and T fixed. The asymptoti...

The efficiency of solar photovoltaic (SPV) panels depends upon the amount of solar irradiance and spectral content. SPV panels are being widely used because of their economic and environmental merits. The performance of SPV panels gets degraded due to factors like air pollution, bird droppings, dust, snow accumulation, etc. An automatic and integrated solar panel cleaning robotic arm (SPCRA) wi...

When using survey data, researchers must evaluate how to effectively handle missing data. For social survey data, full information maximum likelihood methods are often implemented when the researcher is interested in structural equation models. This strategy is convenient to implement and provides acceptable results. Yet it does not incorporate any imputation methods for assessing the missing i...

In most studies on individual labor market transitions, the search process leading to job offers is a black box. In this paper we specify and estimate a search model that distinguishes between formal (applications) and informal (referrals) search methods. Job offers can be obtained by either method, and the corresponding wage offer distributions are allowed to differ. The model allows for searc...

Benchmark problems in structural response control have served the international structural controls community as virtual test beds to compare different control algorithms since the first benchmark problem was proposed in 1996 through the sponsorship of the ASCE Structural Control Committee and Task Group on Benchmark Problems, the U.S. Panel on structural control, and International Association ...

The asymptotic local power of least squares based …xed-T panel unit root tests allowing for a structural break in their individual e¤ects and/or incidental trends of the AR(1) panel data model is studied. These tests correct the least squares estimator of the autoregressive coe¢ cient of this panel data model for its inconsistency due to the individual e¤ects and/or incidental trends of the pan...

Purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between board monitoring and firm performance after controlling the endogeneity and multicollinearity problem that exist in most corporate governance research. Prior studies failed to establish any significant relationship between board monitoring and firm performance because of not properly control for endogeneity and multicollinearity probl...

This paper develops a structural, dynamic model of a banking firm to analyse how banks adjust their loan portfolios over time. In the model, banks experience capital shocks, face uncertain future loan demand, and incur costs based on their proximity to regulatory minimum capital requirements. Non-linear relationships between bank capital levels and lending are derived from the model, and key pa...