Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) have argued that, in regional data, the level of unemployment is related to the fevel of wages. This result is at variance with an application of the original Phillips curve to regional data, which would predict that the change in wages ought to be related to the unemployment rate. On the other hand, there is considerable empirical support for the expectations-aug...

This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 (NELS) to replicate both the analysis in The Bell Curve and that of several of its previous replications. We examine the relative importance of test scores and family background in predicting dropping out of high school, starting college, arrests, and out-of-wedlock fertility. Our results relax several arbitrary assumptions ma...

In this study, we introduce a new type of surface curves called $D$-type curve. This curve is defined by the property that the unit Darboux vector $vec{W}_{0} $ of a surface curve $vec{r}(s)$ and unit surface normal $vec{n} $ along the curve $vec{r}(s)$ satisfy the condition $leftlangle vec{n} ,vec{W}_{0} rightrangle =text{constant}$. We point out that a $D$-type curve is a geodesic curve or an...

Since the 1970s, international students have represented a growing proportion of global student body, yet how they adjust and universities can support them is relatively unexplored. We conducted qualitative study 36 11 nationalities studying in Norway UK found that their experience did not fit dominant ‘U-Curve’ adaptation suggests there honeymoon period on arrival. Confirmed with conversations...

Functional data analysis is a growing research field and numerous works present a generalization of the classical statistical methods to function classification or regression. In this paper, we focus on the problem of using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for curve discrimination. We recall that important theoretical results for SVMs apply in functional space and propose simple functional kernel...