Real energy prices jumped by 80% from 1973 to 1974. At the same time, the market value of firms plunged by 40%. Is the energy crisis responsible for the dramatic decline in the stock market? Many economists, starting with Baily (1981), have concluded that higher energy prices resulted in the effective scrappage of a substantial fraction of the capital stock. The fall in the stock market reflect...

OBJECTIVES To establish a Community-Based Model for Speech Therapy in Thailand and to implement it. MATERIALS AND METHOD The development of a Community-Based Model for Speech Therapy was based on the principles of primary healthcare, community-based rehabilitation and institutional sharing. Workshops for speech and language pathologists (SLPs), including "Training for Trainers" and six "Smart...

This document describes a procedure for mapping between Service Location Protocol (SLP) service advertisements and lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) descriptions of services. The document covers two aspects of the mapping. One aspect is mapping between SLP service type templates and LDAP directory schema. Because the SLP service type template grammar is relatively simple, mapping fro...

The Src homology 2 domain-containing leukocyte protein of 76 kDa (SLP-76) is an important molecular intermediate in multiple signaling pathways governing immune cell function. In this study, we report that SLP-76 is expressed in CD11c+ B220- dendritic cells (DCs) isolated from murine thymus or spleen, and that SLP-76 is rapidly phosphorylated on tyrosine residues upon plating of bone marrow-der...

This study examines the linkages between leading patterns of interannual sea level pressure (SLP) variability over the extratropical Pacific (208–608N) and the eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) types of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The first empirical orthogonal function (EOF) mode of the extratropical SLP anomalies represents variations of the Aleutian low, and the second E...

BACKGROUND The retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) in patients with optic disc swelling of different etiologies was compared using scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS Forty-seven patients with optic disc swelling participated in the cross-sectional study. Both GDx SLP (enhanced corneal compensation) and Spectralis spectral-d...

Directed hypergraphs have been introduced quite recently in connection with different application areas, such as propositional satisfiability, deductive data bases and Leontief substitution systems. In [Jeroslow, Martin, Rardin&Wang, 1989], the uncapacitated min-cost flow problem on hypergraphs is considered, and its properties are studied. Here we address the capacitated case, and show how the...

where Y is total output (or income), t is time, H is the stock of capital, and L is the labor supply. The parameter α ∈ (0, 1) is a distribution parameter, and σ = 1/(1 − ρ) is the elasticity of substitution between capital and technology-augmented labor. The CES function is among the most commonly employed production functions, and was among the original models presented by [2]. The CES is a g...

We present a polynomial time algorithm for the computation of the market equilibrium in a version of Fisher’s model, where the traders have Leontief utility functions. These functions describe a market characterized by strict complementarity. Our algorithm follows from a representation of the equilibrium problem as a concave maximization problem, which is of independent interest. We also show h...