In this paper we propose exact likelihood-based mean-variance efficiency tests of the market portfolio in the context of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), allowing for a wide class of error distributions which include normality as a special case. These tests…

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Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) material containing 20 wt% vinyl acetate (EVA20) was
treated with corona discharge to improve its adhesion to polychloroprene adhesive. Several experimental variables in the corona discharge treatment of EVA20 were considered: corona energy, type of electrode,…

The classical problem of deflection of a cantilever beam of linear elastic material, under the action of an uniformly distributed load along its length (its own weight) and an external vertical concentrated load at the free end, is experimentally and…

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This thesis examines the claims of Jeffrey Timm and James Buchanan that the field of Comparative Philosophy is moving in a postmodern direction. I examine their conception of the postmodern and compare to both the most influential views of postmodernism…

El objetivo de esta tesis es el estudio de algunos problemas diofánticos. Unos relacionados con ternas pitagóricas, y otros con funciones aritméticas.
En concreto se empieza, en el capítulo 1, por dos breves notas históricas sobre la aritmética de Diofanto…

El objetivo principal de esta tesis doctoral es la fundamentación de técnicas de simulación y modelos hidrodinámicos adecuados para la simulación de fluidos simples y complejos a escala mesoscópica. El problema general de los fluidos complejos, desde el punto de…

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