Mike Parker Pearson1, Joshua Pollard2, Colin Richards3, Julian Thomas3, Chris Tilley4 and Kate Welham5 1 Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield< 2 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, [email protected]< 3 School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester< 4 Department of Anthropology, University College London< 5 School of Co...

In a world that is flat, where all clients and providers can easily transact with one another, offshoring represents the proposition that information technology providers from lowwage nations can now underbid providers from high-wage nations and win contracts. We examined a particularly flat “world”—an online programming marketplace—and found that this profound tilt to low-wage nations is overs...

Automated negotiations are an active research field for many years. In negotiations, participants’ characteristics play a crucial role to the final result. The most important characteristics are the deadline and the strategy of the entities. The deadline defines the time for which each entity will participate in the negotiation while the strategy defines the proposed prices at every round. In t...

This study's objective was to determine seasonal and diurnal vs. nocturnal home range size, as well as predation for free-ranging farm cats at a livestock unit in Northwest Georgia. Seven adult cats were tracked with attached GPS units for up to two weeks for one spring and two summer seasons from May 2010 through August 2011. Three and five cats were tracked for up to two weeks during the fall...

☆ We are grateful to the World Bank Research Com Foundation CAREER SES-0547898, and the Bill and Meli the Financial Access Initiative for funding this research. W Ghatak, and the referees, for their helpful comments. W Warwick, Karla Hoff, Kate Johnson, Jonathan Morduch BruceWydick, Dean Yang, and seminar and several confer ments on this project. We thank John Owens and the USA Access to Bankin...

The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and WorkSchedule Flexibility Author(s): Deborah J. Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate Krause Source: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, (Jan., 2003), pp. 273-294 Published by: Cornell University, School of Industrial &amp; Labor Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3590938 Accessed: 14/08...

In this paper, we propose an automatic approach for plant image identification. We enhanced the well-known VGG 16-layers Convolutional Neural Network model [1] by replacing the last pooling layer with a Spatial Pyramid Pooling layer [2]. Rectified Linear Units (ReLU) are also replaced with Parametric ReLUs [3]. The enhanced model is trained without external dataset. A post processing method is ...