Abstract of Bolt Setters

the impact of using inspirational quotes on abstract vocabulary recall

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

When Are Agenda Setters Valuable?

Why do industries donate money to legislative campaigns when roll-call votes suggest that donors gain nothing in return? I argue that corporate donors may shape policy outcomes by influencing powerful agenda setters in the early stages of lawmaking. On the basis of a new dataset of more than 45,000 individual state-legislator sessions (19882012), I document how agenda control is deemed valuable...

Corrosion Resistance of Bolt Coatings

Image-based Bolt-loosening Detection Technique of Bolt Joint in Steel Bridges

This paper presents a novel bolt-loosening detection technique using image information of bolted joints in steel bridges. Firstly, existing bolt-loosening detection techniques are reviewed and their benefits and limitations are analyzed. Secondly, a bolt-loosening detection algorithm using image processing techniques is newly proposed for bolted joints in steel bridges. It consists of 3 steps: ...

Non-Atomistic Wage Setters and Monetary Policy

The purpose of the paper is to study the monetary policy implications of unionized labor markets in a New Keynesian framework. It is shown that, once the presence of large wage setters is taken into account, the degree of wage setting centralization and the aggressiveness of the central bank in stabilizing inflation jointly affect the equilibrium level of real economic activity in the long-run....