This paper explores the used motor oil markets in California under the regulatory scheme along with potential distortions introduced from elements of SB 546. California Senate Bill (SB) 545 modified the requirements of the deposit-refund system (DRS) for used oil outlined in the California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act (COREA) by introducing a differential fee and incentive system. The motivati...

Humor is a ubiquitous experience that facilitates coping, social coordination, and well-being. We examine how humorous responses to a tragedy change over time by measuring reactions to jokes about Hurricane Sandy. Inconsistent with the belief that the passage of time monotonically increases humor, but consistent with the benign violation theory of humor, a longitudinal study reveals that humoro...

Four rodent control techniques-sustained baiting (SB) with cournachlor. pulsed baiting (PB) with brodifacoum. a lethal electrified barrier (LEB), and a nonlethal electrified barrier (NLEB)-were evaluated on the experimental fann of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. A fifth treatment (no experimental rodent control) was established for reference. Mean tiller da...

We introduce Brauer complex of symmetric SB-algebra, and reformulate in terms of Brauer complex the so far known invariants of stable and derived equivalence of symmetric SB-algebras. In particular, the genus of Brauer complex turns out to be invariant under derived equivalence. We study transformations of Brauer complexes which preserve class of derived equivalence. Additionally, we establish ...

We explore the relation between resummation and explicit multi-loop calculations for QCD hard-scattering amplitudes. We describe how the factorization properties of amplitudes lead to the exponentiation of double and single poles at each order of perturbation theory. For these amplitudes, previously-observed relations between single and double poles in different 2 → 2 processes can now be inter...

David J. A. Jenkins, MD Peter J. H. Jones, PhD Benoit Lamarche, PhD Cyril W. C. Kendall, PhD Dorothea Faulkner, PhD Luba Cermakova, MSc Iris Gigleux, MSc Vanu Ramprasath, PhD Russell de Souza, SD Chris Ireland, BSc Darshna Patel, BA Korbua Srichaikul, MSc Shahad Abdulnour, MSc Balachandran Bashyam, PhD Cheryl Collier, MSc Sandy Hoshizaki, BSc Robert G. Josse, MD Lawrence A. Leiter, MD Philip W....

1 The current paper is a working draft. Please do not cite without author_s permission. I would like to acknowledge Sandy Hofferth and the staff at PSID for giving me access to the 1997 Child Supplement before its public release. Does food insecurity in the United States affect child well-being? Specifically, is the amount or quality