This paper explored whether the influence of the success of Tiger contributed to the increase in golf involvement during his first decade (1996-2005) or whether there was some other, stronger, explanatory factor…
Do Agriculture Commodities Spill over onto LatinStock Markets?
It is necessary to resolve the spill-over volatility of agricultural commodities for at least two reasons. Second, the volatility of the prices of agricultural commodities seems to have risen over the last…
Assessment and Analysis of Trading Volume and Return Volatility Relationship on Dow Jones IndexUsing Stable Paretian GARCH and Threshold GARCH Models
In finance, several models are also based on the premise that a Gaussian distribution is followed by random variables. It is now well known that there are always extreme values in empirical…
Assessing the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Strategy in Poverty Reduction in Nigeria
Studies have shown government programmes to tackle poverty in developed countries in the past and in recent times, but such efforts have produced little or no meaningful results. In such countries, therefore,…
News Update on Fish Consumption : Nov 2020
The Inverse Relation between Fish Consumption and 20-Year Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease The low death rate from coronary heart disease among the Greenland Eskimos has been ascribed to their high fish…
News Update on Human Nutrition : Nov 2020
Goat milk in human nutrition Goat milk and its products of yoghurt, cheese and powder have three-fold significance in human nutrition: (1) feeding more starving and malnourished people in the developing world…
News Update on NPK Fertilizer : Nov 2020
Controlled-Release NPK Fertilizer Encapsulated by Polymeric Membranes The commercial granular fertilizer NPK6-20-30 was coated using polysulfone (PSF), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), and cellulose acetate (CA). The coatings were formed from the polymer solutions by…
News Update on Manufacturing Engineering : Nov 2020
Advanced manufacturing engineering In this paper reported are some of the activities of the Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology of the NTUA in manufacturing engineering, focusing onto some recent trends and developments in…
Detailed Study on the Mechanism of Metabolic Influences on the Endogenous GLP-1 by Oral Antidiabetic Medications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
In most economically developed nations, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is now the most prevalent type of diabetes mellitus. Incretin-based therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is now a…
Letter to the Editor: Streamlined Upper Airway Collapsibility Measurement for Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP): Perspectives
Dilating a narrow airway may be an effective treatment aspect of therapy as a surgical solution for the treatment of adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but may not be a primary…