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Card and Krueger’s analysis of the impact of the 1992 increase in the NJ state minimum wage on employment in fast-food restaurants in NJ and PA is very well known. In 1996 and 1997, the federal minimum wage was increased from $4.25 to $5.15, thereby increasing the minimum wage by $0.90 in PA but by just $0.10 in NJ. We use CPS data to examine the impacts of this increase on employment of likely...

Have you ever been handed an EOB that looked . . . well . . . strange? Maybe it had some unfamiliar corporate name and logo you'd never seen before. Then, as you read down, did you end up scratching your head, wondering why your original charges had been discounted so heavily, and for a patient who didn't seem to be in any network you belonged to? If so, you may have been the unwitting victim o...

Cyber Defense Exercises (CDX) continue to gain appreciation in the context of information security education. Primarily conducted in academic environments, the call for CDX is beginning to breach that boundary. Existing models are challenged by cost, agility, legality, and scope. This paper presents a model that addresses these challenges through a CDX service provider model.

This paper measures the effectiveness of platform endorsement and consumergenerated reputation on sellers’ demand in online service marketplace. We apply BLPstyle model to understand consumers’ heterogeneous sensitivity to platform endorsement and consumer-generated reputation with endogeneity issue handled nicely. In addition, we investigate “conform or to be cast out” policy, which is applied...

Introduction: Internet and online services are part of everyday life. We perceive as normal their use in various activities. It’s normal for healthcare and medicine to use them. Aim: To investigate e-mail use for online consultation by GPs. Materials and methods: Written questionnaire. Results: Physicians don’t have business e-mail and don’t use their personal one for online consultation. Desir...

This paper introduces a new way of accelerating the convergence of numeric CSP filtering algorithms, through the use of extrapolation methotis. Extrapolation methods are used in numerical analysis to accelerate the convergence of real number sequences. We will show how to use them for solving numeric csPs, leading to drastic improvement in efficiency.

This paper analyzes the problem of assigning weights to edges incrementally in a dynamic complete bipartite graph consisting of producer and consumer nodes. The objective is to minimize the overall cost while satisfying certain constraints. The cost and constraints are functions of attributes of the edges, nodes and online service requests. Novelty of this work is that it models real-time distr...

This Technical Note presents an overview of the adverse effects on connected equipment of transient overvoltages that can occur on the electricity distribution network, and how to provide protection against them. Integral Energy, your local Distribution Network Service Provider or the Integral Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre can give you additional advice if you have particular conc...