We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to study the mediumand long-term effects of air pollution on labor supply. We find that exposure to air pollution reduces hours worked and while the medium-term effects are larger in magnitude, some effects do persist in the long term. More interestingly, we are able to provide some insight regarding the underlying channels that contribute to the reduced...

This paper studies the impact of ad-avoidance behavior in media markets. We consider a situation where viewers can avoid advertisement messages. As the media market is a two-sided market, increased ad-avoidance reduces advertisers’ value of placing an ad. We contrast two financing regimes, free-to-air and pay-TV. We find that a higher viewer responsiveness to advertising decreases revenues and ...

This report summarizes progress on Washington University’s Terabit Burst Switching Project, supported by DARPA and Rome Air Force Laboratory. This project seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of Burst Switching, a new data communication service which can more effectively exploit the large bandwidths becoming available in WDM transmission systems, than conventional communication technologies lik...

Flame acceleration and deflagration-to-detonation transitions (DDT) in large obstructed channels filled with a stoichiometric methane–air mixture are simulated using a single-step reaction mechanism. The reaction parameters are calibrated using known velocities and length scales of laminar flames and detonations. Calculations of the flame dynamics and DDT in channels with obstacles are compared...

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This paper studies the shape of an air bubble quasi-statically flowing in the longitudinal direction of narrow channels. Two bottom topographies are treated, i.e., linear and quadratic variations of the gap along the transverse direction. This work analyses the main characteristics of the gas-liquid interface with respect to the wedge aspect ratio. From the convergence of asymptotic, numerical ...

It is often claimed that Rician fading must also be included for Over-The-Air (OTA) testing of mobile devices with Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) capabilities. However, the Line-OfSight (LOS) component varies with orientation and location of the mobile device. Therefore, we study Rician channels with random LOS to determine its significance.

A simple theoretical model is presented for the distribution of air speeds in a modified horizontal elutriator consisting of groups of plates with different lengths. Equations are presented for calculating the particle penetration both in channels of shortended plate lengths, as downstream the end of a shortended plate.

ion channels play a major role in the regulation of t cell function in health and disease. in a computer-based model, established to simulate t cells’ membrane potential (vm) generation, we discovered a discrepancy between the simulation and patch-clamp recordings. the predicted vm was more hyperpolarized than the measured vm, indicating that a yet unknown, depolarizing ion current might contri...

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is a beneficial mechanism that diverts blood from hypoxic alveoli to better ventilated areas of the lung, but breathing hypoxic air causes the pulmonary circulation to become hypertensive. Responses to airway hypoxia are associated with depolarization of smooth muscle cells in the pulmonary arteries and reduced activity of K(+) channels. As Kv7 channels ...