abstract: on december 2010, the government of iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the targeted subsidy reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. the objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from i...

Optimistic execution techniques are widely used in the field of parallel discrete event simulation. In this paper we show that optimistic execution can also be used to parallelize program control structures. We discuss the requirements for handling unbounded constructs and demonstrate the need for a flexible time– stamp allocation scheme. We present a scheme using variable–length time–stamps wh...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of overall diet quality, sociodemographic predictors of diet quality, and the association between diet quality and body weight status in a nationally representative sample of preschoolers. METHODS Cross-sectional study using a sample of 2-5 years old with sociodemographic, dietary, and anthropometric data (n = 1,521) in the National Health and Examination Surv...

This article analyzes several proposals to build work incentives into the U.S. welfare system. It concludes that the most cost effective way to do that is to offer a work subsidy to all low-income single parents—in other words, to simply pay them for working in the labor market. This conclusion is based on a model of the labor force participation behavior of low-income single mothers that the a...

One of the most exotic and little-known ritual foods Greek community in Sozopol for so-called damgi (the stamp) - a special kind fried cakes, which until almost end twentieth century were prepared only here, by urban weddings. Over years, however, scope their preparation supply has expanded. From props, they become one culinary emblems seduce tourists visiting city during active season. In orde...