“…124), one realizes that Theorem 4.1 can, in fact, be proved under weaker assumptions detailed below (see, for example, proof of Theorem 1.1 in Hu and Zhu (2001)). For this purpose, we first introduce some shifted stochastic orders (that are stronger than their counterparts in Definition 2.1) which have been studied in the literature (see, for example, Shanthikumar and Yao (1986), Nakai (1995), Brown and Shanthikumar (1998), Lillo et al (2000), Lillo et al (2001), Di Crescenzo and Longobardi (2001), Hu and Zhu (2001), Belzunce et al (2002), Nanda et al (2006), and Aboukalam and Kayid (2007)).…”