The research, based on the Sociology of Education, had, by goal, to understand the role played by the old Secondary Normal School of the city of São Carlos, in the constitution of a local leverage of intellectual elites ...

Diagnostic methods have been an important tool in regression analysis to detect anomalies, such as departures from error assumptions and the presence of outliers and influential observations with the fitted models. Assuming ...

We consider the issue of assessing influence of observations in the class of Birnbaum-Saunders nonlinear regression models, which is useful in lifetime data analysis. Our results generalize those in Galea et al. [8] which ...

Spatial linear models have been applied in numerous fields such as agriculture, geoscience and environmen-tal sciences, among many others. Spatial dependence structure modelling, using a geostatistical approach,is an ...

This dissertation investigates the interconnectedness of the labor market environment and firms’ financial policies. The recent theoretical and empirical literature shows that as a fundamental factor of production labor ...

Calculations of local influence curvatures and leverage have been well developed when the parameters are unrestricted. In this article, we discuss the assessment of local influence and leverage under linear equality parameter ...

O presente estudo teve por objetivo examinar a influência dos fatores macroeconômicos (câmbio, inflação e diferença das taxas de financiamento) e risco político na estrutura de capital das Subsidiárias das Multinacionais ...

Program execution can be tampered with by malicious attackers through exploiting software vulnerabilities. Changing the program behavior by compromising control data and decision data has become the most serious threat in ...

Public Health Emergency Operation Center (PHEOC) was conceptualized and established for coordinating information and resources towards goal-oriented response in large scale public health emergency. Yet, the activities ...