Beginning in the mid-1980s, the phenomenon of capital flight from developing countries received considerable attention in the economics literature. Capital flight destroys the domestic macroeconomic environment and decreases transparency and accountability. It restricts financial resources when a country is looking for economic growth and development. The purpose of this article is to measure t...

introduction: it has been known for a long time in the french-speaking, but not the english-speaking literature that travel can exacerbate pre-existing psychosis. the purpose of this article was to review the literature on this subject and present recommendations for prevention. methods: for this narrative review of the literature on travel risks in individuals with pre-existing psychosis, appr...

BACKGROUND Proximal femoral fracture rates are increasing due to osteoporosis and traffic accidents. Proximal femoral nails are routinely used in the treatment of these fractures in the proximal femur. AIMS To compare various combinations and to determine the ideal proximal lag screw position in pertrochanteric fractures (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen classification 31-A1) of th...

Classifying the difficulty of climbing routes is a challenging and subjective task, even for experienced climbers. This project builds on previous work [6] and evaluated several algorithms to aid in this process. Data was sourced from a standard climbing wall (the Moonboard) found in gyms around the world. Three different models were explored for classification: Naive Bayes, softmax regression,...

The performance of (bio-)signal classification strongly depends on the choice of suitable features (also called parameters or biomarkers). In this article we evaluate the discriminative power of ordinal pattern statistics and symbolic dynamics in comparison with established heart rate variability parameters applied to beat-to-beat intervals. As an illustrative example we distinguish patients su...

Discontinuous Lyapunov functionals appeared to be very efficient for sampled-data systems (Fridman, 2010; Naghshtabrizi, Hespanha, & Teel, 2008). In the present paper, new discontinuous Lyapunov functionals are introduced for sampled-data control in the presence of a constant input delay. The construction of these functionals is based on the vector extension of Wirtinger’s inequality. These fun...

This paper proposes a new system-equation test for threshold cointegration based on a threshold vector autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model. The new test can be applied when the cointegrating vector is unknown and when weak exogeneity fails. The asymptotic null distribution of the new test is derived, critical values are tabulated, and finite-sample properties are examined. In particular,...

This article presents a novel approach to assess the stability of linear systems with delayed and sampled-data inputs. It proposes an extension of existing results on the stability of sampled-data systems to the case where a delay is introduced in the control loop. The method is based on a continuoustime modelling of the systems together with the discrete-time Lyapunov theorem, which provides e...

in the present study, the effect of core on shear lag phenomenon in tubular structures is investigated. three different tubular structure models including model without core, model with central core and model with central core but eliminated in last 15 stories have been analyzed. a shear lag index is defined for evaluating these models. from examination of the results, the effective influence o...

This paper tries to analyze effects of trade and financial liberalizations on the Iran’s government size during both long-run and short- run. Accordingly, a specification of the auto regression with distributed lag (ARDL) has been used for investigating the long run relationships between variables, and a vector correction model (VECM) has examined dynamically the short-run relationships betwe...