Serum-free human pluripotent stem cell media offer the potential to develop reproducible clinically applicable differentiation strategies and protocols. The vast array of possible growth factor and cytokine combinations for media formulations makes differentiation protocol optimization both labor and cost-intensive. This unit describes a 96-well plate, 4-color flow cytometry-based screening ass...

This paper presents methods for identifying and analyzing associations among nursing care processes, patient attributes, and patient outcomes using unit-level and patient-level representations of care derived from computerized nurse documentation. The retrospective, descriptive analysis included documented nursing events for 900 Labor and Delivery patients at three hospitals over the 2-month pe...

The relationship between economic growth and energy consumption is one of the hot topics in economic research. There are many literatures concern about this topic from theoretical and empirical viewpoint. This paper applies panel unit root, heterogeneous panel cointegration and production function to investigate the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth within a multivaria...

The paper attempts to answer a very simple question: how does a farm household respond as a unit in the labor market when benefits or health insurance is tied to employer provided jobs. One of the major changes affecting US agriculture has been a decline in the number of farms and an increase in the multiple job-holding, especially among farm women to fulfill various objectives ranging from hel...

ing from money, meaning everything is denominated in units of goods, e.g. fruit). Total cost is the wage bill plus the capital bill. Let wt be the real wage rate – it is the number of goods the firm must pay each unit of labor. Let Rt be the real “rental rate” – it is the number of goods the firm must give up to lease a unit of capital. The firm is a price-taker, so it takes these as given. Pro...

s for Paper Presentations Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade Rafael Dix-Carneiro (with Brian K. Kovak) We use both longitudinal administrative data and cross-sectional household survey data to study the margins of labor market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor...

In many production systems, capacities depend not only on machine capacities, but also on the available work-force levels in each period of the planning horizon. Therefore, these capacities are given in terms of labor hours. In order to develop aggregate plans, work-force levels should be established "rst, and then translated into available regular-time and overtime production capacities. In th...

Mark Vendemia is an economist in the Branch of Information and Analysis, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. MARK VENDEMIA Despite the heightened awareness of health problems associated with using tobacco products, Americans continue to spend large amounts of money on these items. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS or the Bureau) Consumer Expend...

The paper presents a study conducted through a cross sectional research design and a quantitative content analysis method to categorize and provide a numerically based summary of the different abilities requested in online routine labor markets like Mechanical Turk. These markets are growing nowadays for the outsourcing of routine information processing tasks. This is mainly due to the existenc...

This paper suggests a causal framework for disentangling individual level treatment effects and interference effects, i.e., general equilibrium, spillover, or interaction effects related to treatment distribution. Thus, the framework allows for a relaxation of the Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA), which assumes away any form of treatment-dependent interference between study partic...