This paper provides an international comparison of rates of intergenerational income mobility. Age-dependence of income persistence estimates (explained and quantified in this work) suggests that comparisons of multiple studies using different selection rules will result in erro…
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My dissertation consists of three essays on empirical economic growth. Chapters I and II reconsider the current practice of cross-country growth regressions. Chapter III focuses on the emerging market crises and economic growth. In the face of persisting income inequalities acro…
This research examines stocks' returns and volatility in the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE). The research is organized in five chapters. The first chapter provides an introduction of the research, its importance, and its main goals. The second chapter presents a historical backgrou…
Electrical trees have long been the interest of the electrical insulation community due to their role in power systems equipment failure at locations where high divergent fields might arise due to impurities, contaminants or voids. Even through trees take a long time to grow in …
This thesis analyzes the effect of internal and external factors on the profitability of all full-fledged Islamic banks in Malaysia. Additionally, this study examines the robustness of results by using the financial crisis of 2008-2009 as a control variable. The study uses regre…
Forest advance into tundra has several ecosystem repercussions. Treeline advance and increased forest density have been observed across the Arctic. Here I document spruce treeline advance as forest advance at 23 sites across Alaska’s Brooks Range. I do this by interpreting histo…
This research proposes a novel framework to control the stencil cleaning operation in the stencil printing process (SPP) on a real-time basis. In a surface mount assembly (SMA) line, most of the soldering defects result from the SPP. Stencil cleaning is necessary to remove the a…
Discovering important patterns in data can help cities to plan, monitor, and assign resources more efficiently, converting them in smart cities with more organized communities. Machine learning models can take advantage of this large amount of data to improve and scale these cit…
Load forecasting has always been an integral part of plant operation. Energy usage is tied to economics and national prosperity. The power grid is in a perpetual state of balance, with the customers consuming the exact amount of energy the utility provides. Knowing the load fore…
Over the past several decades, the cost of healthcare across the globe continued to increase. The projection is for faster growth in all sectors due to the improving economy, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the aging United States’ population (i.e., Baby Boomers). This growth…
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of leverage on many profitability ratios return on assets (ROA) over two set periods. My samples are obtained from U.S firms in the industrials sector spanning from 1996-2006 and 2010-2019. Furthermore, I hypothesize and discove…
Background. There has been a rise in opioid-related hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and mortality due to opioid poisoning across Canada. There is a gap in research related to Nurse practitioner (NP) opioid prescribing and safety measure utilization patterns and sp…
Deep neural networks have fundamentally transformed the field of machine translation, and replaced statistical phrase-based approaches to serve translations to millions of users in production systems every day. Despite impressive progress in translation accuracy, improving decod…
Background: Transgender individuals in the United States experience significant health disparities as a result of minority stress processes. In particular, structural stigma, often a function of state policy environments, can discourage or encourage discrimination and cultural s…
Methods: Data from the 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) was analyzed for adults above age 40 with 3669 participants with taste and 3691 participants with smell disorders. Smoking status, based upon the history of smoking in the past 5 days was…
The research topic is the relationship between resilience and level of alcohol use in rural young adult population. The aim of this study was to investigate three research questions. One, “Do determination, endurance, adaptability, and recuperability predict levels of alcohol us…