Do teachers’ expectations directly impact student achievement? We draw on administrative data from North Carolina schools that report both test scores and of students’ performance these tests. Employing fixed effects instrumental variables strategies to overcome endogeneity concerns, we find higher exogenously determined teacher increase for fourth eighth graders. Impacts are suggestively large...

ABSTRACT Introduction Humans have expressed erotic desires with written words for millennia, and sexting has become one of the newest ways expressing these desires. A few scholars investigated association between satisfaction within a relationship, this study seeks to add ongoing literature. Previous studies demonstrated significant relationship relationship/sexual satisfaction. Objective Sexti...

Although representation of physical environments and behaviors will continue to play an important role in simulation-based training, an emerging challenge is representation of virtual humans with rich mental models (e.g., including emotions, trust) that interact through conversational behaviors as well as physical ones. The motivation for such simulations is training soft-skills such as leaders...

Most of the current Information and Computer Security (ICS) literature and research, appears to be following a traditional model of first addressing the technological and technical issues, and assuming that these issues will be augmented by humans. This is evident in the proliferation of security devices and software in our daily lives. Though we still have ICS problems. However, authors like V...

This paper defends the actualist desire-satisfaction theory of welfare against a popular line of objection—namely, that it cannot accommodate the fact that, sometimes, it is bad for a person to get what he wants. Ill-informed desires, irrational desires, base desires, poorly cultivated desires, pointless desires, artificially aroused desires, and the desire to be badly off, are alleged by objec...