M.T. Bardo et al. (eds.), Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention: From Research to Translation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1268-8_11, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Moving beyond studies of age differences in “cool” cognitive processes related to risk perception and reasoning, new approaches to understanding adolescent risk behavior highlight the influence of “hot” socia...

BACKGROUND India launched a national conditional cash transfer program, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), aimed at reducing maternal mortality by promoting institutional delivery in 2005. It provides a cash incentive to women who give birth in public health facilities. This paper studies the extent of program uptake, reasons for participation/non participation, factors associated with non uptake of...

We present a dynamic model of "scal policy in a simple growth framework where social polarization (of preferences) plays a central role in the evolution of "scal instability and growth collapse. In a highly polarized society, a de"cit occurs endogenously, "scal spending path becomes more volatile, output collapses, and economic growth rate is reduced along the transition path to a new lower lev...

Community networks are a successful example of a collective where communities operate ICT infrastructure and provide IP connectivity based on the principle of reciprocal resource sharing of network bandwidth. This sharing, however, has not extended to computing and storage resources, resulting in very few applications and services which are currently deployed within community networks. Cloud co...