Assessing the importance of borrowing constraints for college entry is key for education policy analysis in the U.S. economy. I present a computable dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and incomplete markets that allows me to measure the fraction of households constrained in their college entry decision. College education is financed by family transfers and public sub...

Infants’ responses in speech sound discrimination tasks can be nonmonotonic over time. Stager and Werker (1997) reported such data in a bimodal habituation task. In this task, 8-month-old infants were capable of discriminations that involved minimal contrast pairs, whereas 14-month-old infants were not. It was argued that the older infants’ attenuated performance was linked to their processing ...

Studies of hadronic systems involving double strangeness (S = -2) are practically limited to searches for the Hparticle, a system of B = 2, S = -2, first proposed by Jaffe [1] which up to now was not observed. Apart from this exotic object the measurement of the interaction in hadronic systems with double strangeness is of general QCD interest and will result in a better understanding of the st...

We give improved lower bounds for Shellsort based on a new and relatively simple proof idea. The lower bounds obtained are both stronger and more general than the previously known bounds. In particular, they hold for nonmonotone increment sequences and adaptive Shellsort algorithms, as well as for some recently proposed variations of Shellsort.

Progress in the study of hadronic final states in deep inelastic scattering as well as pp̄, photoproduction and ee annihilation, as presented at the DIS97 workshop, is reviewed.

The adiabatic temperature rise of early-age concrete can be precisely tested by the device. However, the insufficient accuracy of testing device can lead to inaccurate measurements of adiabatic temperature rise of later-age concrete. The purpose of this paper is to create a model to predict the hydration heat of later-age concrete. Based on the previous studies, it is known that the heat releas...

Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children in the fourth group were monolingual speakers of English. All the bilingual children used both languages daily and were learning to read in both languages. The children solved de...

The impact of virtual leptoquark or R-parity breaking squark exchange as well as generic contact interactions on the production of quark–antiquark pairs in ee annihilation, in particular at LEP2, is summarized. An exciting possibility of sneutrino formation in ee scattering is also mentioned. Talk presented at the 5th International Workshop on “Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD” (DIS ’97), Chic...

Analytical solutions for reconnective annihilation in curvilinear geometry are presented. These solutions are characterized by current density distributions varying both along the radial and azimuthal coordinates. They represent an extension of previously proposed models, based on purely radially dependent current densities. Possible applications of these solutions to the modeling of solar flar...

We explore the parameter space of a Constrained Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with GUT scale boundary conditions (CNMSSM), and find regions where the relic density of the lightest neutralino is compatible with the WMAP measurement. We emphasize differences with the MSSM: cases where annihilation of the LSP occurs via a Higgs resonance at low values of tanβ and cases where the LS...