We study how a reduction of the potential duration of unemployment benefit receipt (PBD) affects medium-run earnings and employment of job seekers. The analysis is based on a Swiss reform that reduced PBD from 24 months to 18 months for job seekers younger than 55 years in 2003. Adopting a difference-indifference framework, we find that this reduction in PBD increases employment and earnings of...

Syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (sPMMA)-polybutadiene (PBD)—sPMMA triblock copolymers, or MBM, have been studied in the presence of o-xylene which is a selective solvent for the central PBD block. Syndiotactic PMMA is known to self associate in o-xylene. The central PBD sequence does not prevent the selfassociation of sPMMA from occurring. Actually, this phenomenon contributes to the sta...

Privacy remains among the toughest challenges for the consumer-facing Internet of Things (IoT). Privacy-by-Design (PbD) is the most recent attempt to address it. Thereby, privacy goals become part of the technical specification and are resolved directly in the development process. This contemplation opposes existing approaches that retrofit protection measures as an afterthought, often even aft...

Pigmented Bowen's disease (pBD) is an uncommon in situ squamous cell carcinoma of the skin usually presenting as a dark scaly plaque involving chronically exposed sites, which is not uncommonly mistaken for other similar pigmented lesions, such as melanoma, pigmented basal cell carcinoma or seborrheic keratosis [1,2]. Dermoscopy has been proven to improve its diagnosis by showing several findin...

PBD { THE KEY TO SERVICE ROBOT PROGRAMMING HOLGER FRIEDRICH, MICHAEL KAISER and R UDIGER DILLMANN Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems & Robotics (IPR) University of Karlsruhe D-76128 Karlsruhe,Germany E-Mail: [email protected]. Abstract. Currently, an important topic of robotic research is the design and development of `service robots'. These devices shall work autonom...

Service robots require interactive programming interfaces that allow users without programming experience to easily instruct the robots. Systems following the Programming by Demonstration (PbD) paradigm that were developed within the last years are getting closer to this goal. However, most of these systems lack the possibility for the user to supervise and in uence the process of program gener...

STUDY DESIGN In a human cadaveric burst fracture model with and without longitudinal ligament damage, the amount of anterior and posterior bone displacement (ABD, PBD) during balloon vertebroplasty after pedicle-screw instrumentation was investigated quantitatively. OBJECTIVES To investigate, in a burst fracture model with and without longitudinal ligament damage, the amount of ABD, PBD, and ...

Data cleaning and manipulation is an expensive and tedious process that consumes valuable time and resources. If an end-user needs to manipulate a large amount of data, he has three primary options: record a macro, write a transformation program, or perform manual manipulations on the data. Recording a macro with a fixed series of actions can be simple, but does not generalize well and is not s...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an important instrument to boost the performance of business processes. In this paper, the Product-Based Design (PBD) method is presented that is especially suitable to reengineer processes that support information-intensive products such as bonds, mortgages, and loans. Aside from the treatment of its theoretical properties and the differences with prevai...