Pro Se Litigation: Is This Phenomenon Helping Or Hurting Our Legal System?

MiNiMuM WagEs iN DEvEloPiNg CouNtriEs: HElPiNg or HurtiNg WorkErs?*

A large ongoing debate centers on the costs and benefits of increasing the minimum wage in an economy. Supporters of minimum wage legislation highlight that it can shift the earnings distribution in favor of low-paid workers by shrinking the bottom tail of the distribution. Opponents highlight its disemployment effect and the fact that it might reduce the share of earnings going to low-paid wor...

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Monitoring Quality of Life in the U.S. 1972-1996: Is Marketing Helping or Hurting?

Subjective happiness has been assessed in the U.S. since 1972 by the General Social Survey (GSS). We examine trends in happiness over the last 25 years, and investigate the objective causes of these trends. We present a model of how objective indicators of QOL (such as GDP/person, crime rates, etc.) affect satisfaction with domains of life, with overall happiness of citizens, and with behaviora...

Spectrum of Malignant Transformation in Marjolins Ulcer: Our Experience of This Rare Phenomenon

  Background & Objective: Chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. Though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. The objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology/ Scrape cytolo...

Helping Our Own: NTHU NLPLAB System Description

Grammatical error correction has been an active research area in the field of Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we integrated four distinct learning-based modules to correct determiner and preposition errors in leaners’ writing. Each module focuses on a particular type of error. Our modules were tested in well-formed data and learners’ writing. The results show that our system achieve...