The econophysics ‘‘two-class’’ theory of Yakovenko and his co-authors shows that the distribution of labor incomes is roughly exponential. This paper extends this result to US subgroups categorized by gender and race. It is well known that Males have higher average incomes than Females, and Whites have higher average incomes than African-Americans. It is also evident that social policies can af...

As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention should focus on providing dynamic access to services, whilst ensuring such access is appropriately monitored and secured. Access policies may be dynamic, whereby intra-organisational workflows define local knowledge that could be used to establish appropriate credentials necessary to access the desired service. We d...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the subliminal role of interest in preferences for 50 courses available at a community college. This is an idiographic study of educational decisions. It employed a sample of situations and a representative design. Four adults participated in an educational-vocational assessment and in the process of providing vocational guidance their course selection wa...

Many applications require teams of robots to cooperatively execute tasks. Among these domains are those in which successful coordination must respect intra-path constraints, which are constraints that occur on the paths of agents and affect route planning. This work focuses on multi-agent coordination for disaster response with intra-path precedence constraints, a compelling application that is...

The next generation Internet is designed to accommodate flows that span across multiple domains with quality of service guarantees, in particular bandwidth. In this context, destinations for inter-domain traffic may be reachable through multiple egress routers within a domain. In this paper, we formulate a bandwidth guaranteed egress router selection problem. The objective is to, for each aggre...

In this paper we present a survey of distributional impact analysis of environmental policies envisaged or implemented to reduce greenhouse gaz emissions. The implementation of these policies usually aim at reducing greenhouse gases directly or indirectly. However, these policies can also produce important changes in factor allocation, relative prices in specific countries as well as on world m...

Managing hierarchical and fine grained DBMS policies for a large number of users is a challenging task and it increases the probability of introducing misconfigurations and anomalies. In this paper, we present a formal approach to discover anomalies in database policies using Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) which allow finer grain analysis and scalability. We present and formalize intra-table a...

â â â  â â  abstract: â  china and asean have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. the customs data (classified by the hs code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the cris...

1 The Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology. 2 The Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. E-mail: [email protected]...

BACKGROUND Reporting guidelines have been available for the past 17 years since the inception of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement in 1996. These guidelines were developed to improve the quality of reporting of studies in medical literature. Despite the widespread availability of these guidelines, the quality of reporting of medical literature remained suboptimal. In this...