Researchers have long strived to exploit program behaviour in order to improve garbage collection efficiency. For example, by using a simple heuristic, generational GC manages short-lived objects well, although longer-lived objects will still be promoted to an older generation and may be processed repeatedly thereafter. In this paper, we provide a detailed study of Java object lifetimes which r...

This paper studies the link between population age structure, net outflows (dividends plus repurchases less net issues) from the stock market, and stock market returns in an overlapping generations framework. I find support for the traditional lifecycle models — the outflows from the stock market are positively correlated with the changes in the fraction of old people (65 and over) and negative...

Recent literature on material flow analysis has been focused on quantitative characterization of past material flows. Fewer analyses exist on past and prospective quantification of stocks of materials in-use. Some of these analyses explore the composition of products' stocks, but a focus on the characterization of material stocks and its relation with service delivery is often neglected. We pro...

Comparisons of demographic characteristics are made among the surveys and, when possible, among sexual orientation identities to consider differences between those who identify as lesbian or gay and those who identify as bisexual. The term “LGB/T” is used to refer to respondents among the surveys since only one of the surveys explicitly included transgender within the LGBT identification question.

This is an analysis of the incidence of molar pregnancies and those of complete and partial molar pregnancies across the reproductive age range for BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) in the period 2010-2011. Patients with molar pregnancies registered with BPKIHS from January 2008 to January 2010 were identified. The overall number of molar pregnancies registered was compared to th...

The debates on minority issues are often dominated by or held among the concerned minorities: gender equality debates have often failed to engage men, while those about race fail to engage the dominant group. To test this observation, we study the #BlackLivesMatter movement and hashtag on Twitter—that has emerged and gained traction after a series of events typically involving the death of Afri...

The etiology of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is unknown. There are many insights, however, from epidemiologic/demographic information. A systematic medical literature review regarding DDH was performed. There is a predominance of left-sided (64.0%) and unilateral disease (63.4%). The incidence per 1000 live births ranges from 0.06 in Africans in Africa to 76.1 in Native Americans. T...

Kristina Lerman USC Information Science Institute Marina del Rey, CA 90292 [email protected] Megha Arora IIIT-Delhi New Delhi, India 110020 [email protected] Luciano Gallegos USC Information Science Institute Marina del Rey, CA 90292 [email protected] Ponnurangam Kumaraguru IIIT-Delhi New Delhi, India 110020 [email protected] David Garcia ETH Zurich 8092 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected]

We test the hypothesis that investment in actively managed mutual funds is linked to investor clienteles. We document that individual investors located in less affluent, less educated, and ethnic minority neighborhoods invest more in funds with expensive load fees. They also tend to invest a disproportionate amount in funds with no minimum-balance requirements, and find fewer funds and (fewer n...