INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH ENDOGENOUS SKILL ACQUISITION

Public Capital, Infrastructure and Industrial Development

A Study on Skill Acquisition Mechanism and Development of Skill Transfer Systems

This paper describes our project which studies skill acquisition mechanism and develops skill transfer systems. To clarify skill acquisition mechanism, we analyze top athletes, elite music performers and handicapped persons who have advanced skills which are not found in ordinary people. Then we will develop skill transfer systems by using advanced computer vision, robotics and artificial intel...

Development Impact Fees and the Acquisition of Infrastructure

This article considers the impact that the use of impact development fees has on the level of capital investment made by local governments in the United States. Using a sample of 85 cities, we find that the use of fees is associated with lower levels of capital spending. The data also reveal that the debt-to-expenditure ratio for these cities is associated with higher levels of capital spending...

Cognitive skill acquisition.

Cognitive skill acquisition is acquiring the ability to solve problems in intellectual tasks, where success is determined more by subjects' knowledge than by their physical prowess. This review considers research conducted in the past ten years on cognitive skill acquisition. It covers the initial stages of acquiring a single principle or rule, the initial stages of acquiring a collection of in...

Motor skill acquisition.

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 213 A GENERAL LAW OF MOTOR LEARNING ................................................. 215 Motor Learning as a Power Law .............................................................. 216 The Power Law--A Special Case of Motor Learning? .................................... 217 WHAT IS LEARNED WITH ...