The full consumption insurance implication of complete-markets models is tested using CEX data from 1995 through 1998. Cross-sectional tests are performed, rather than pooled time-series, cross-sectional regressions. Four different measures of consumption and two different measures of income, pre-tax and after-tax income, are used in implementing the tests. The results of the tests are not sens...

Case presentation is used as a teaching and learning tool in almost all clinical education, and it is also associated with clinical reasoning ability. Despite this, no specific assessment tool utilizing case presentations has yet been established. SNAPPS (summarize, narrow, analyze, probe, plan, and select) and the One-minute Preceptor are well-known educational tools for teaching how to improv...

Assessing the performance of doctors while they are engaged in clinical work is a challenging concept. The introduction of objective-based curricula provides the stimulus and opportunity for the Royal Colleges of Physicians to develop relevant and reliable methods of in-service assessment. We propose to pilot a study investigating the validity, reliability and feasibility of three assessment me...

Many consumer choice situations are characterized by the simultaneous demand for multiple alternatives that are imperfect substitutes for one another, along with a continuous quantity dimension for each chosen alternative. To model such multiple discrete-continuous choices, most multiple discrete-continuous models in the literature use an additively-separable utility function, with the assumpti...

We consider the problem of computing the logical difference between distinct versions of description logic terminologies. For the lightweight description logic EL, we present a tractable algorithm which, given two terminologies and a signature, outputs a set of concepts, which can be regarded as the logical difference between the two terminologies. As a consequence, the algorithm can also decid...

The effect of Cerium and Cobalt substitution in Zinc ferrites with respect to their electrical and magnetic properties has been investigated in this paper. The nanoparticles of Zn1-x-y Cex Coy Fe2O4 ( x = 0.012, 0014, 0.016, 0.018; y = 0.01, 0.001, 0014, 0.016) is prepared by sol gel route and sintered in a microwave furnace. The nano size, structure and composition of Ce-Co doped Zinc ferrite ...

Osamu Aruga and Lina Walker provided excellent research assistance with the CEX and HRS data sets, respectively. We are grateful to John Bound, Miles Kimball, Jeff Liebman, Richard Rogerson, Matthew Shapiro and participants in seminars at Arizona State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Osaka University and Tokyo University for their helpful comments. This work...

A continuum is a compact connected Hausdorff space. If X is a continuum, then CEX is a C-set if (i) C^X, (ii) for each subcontinuum A EX that meets C we have either A EC or CEA. Thus a composant of a solenoid is a C-set. A ?«0& is a Hausdorff space together with a continuous associative multiplication. A clan is a compact connected mob with (two-sided) unit, denoted by u. In what follows we ass...

A composting experiment was carried out to assess the best parameters as indicators for degree of compost maturity and to determine humification indices for practical use. The effect of humic acids extracted on soil microorganisms growth was also simultaneously investigated in vitro under axenic conditions. The parameters used were oxidizable carbon (Co), alkaline-extractable carbon (Cex), humi...

Recent trends in medical education are moving rapidly away from gaining a certain number of marks in high-stakes examinations and towards gathering evidence of clinical competence and professional behavior observed in clinical environments (workplace-based learning). In the Miller's framework for assessing clinical competence, workplace-based methods of assessment target the highest level of th...