We survey and asses the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the US) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research. Alberto Alesina Departmen...

Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some? Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is wellestablished, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality tradeoff across the entire distribution. Using data from th...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus usually called diabetes sugar condition that occurs when the ones body does not produce insulin or is enable to use normal amount properly. Objectives: The objectives of study where on asses knowledge and practice regarding patient. Design: a descriptive survey approach assess self administration among Tool: using 15 items questionnaire was in known portability c...

Invasive properties of 15 strains of thermotolerant Campylobacter (12 C. jejuni and 3 C. coli) were studied using HeLa cells cultures. In four of them (3 C. jejuni and 1 C. coli), randomly selected, intestinal perfusion experiments were conducted in order to asses enterotoxigenicity. All strains were able to invade HeLa cells. The number of invaded HeLa cells ranged from 3 to 46%. In addition t...

We asses the ability of a distance correlation coefficient (DiCC), calculated from distance covariance, for detecting long-range concerted motion in proteins. We establish a set of criteria for ideal correlation coefficient values based on the coefficient of determination in multi-dimension, R2. We compare in detail DiCC and conventional coefficients against these criteria. We demonstrate that ...

One of the most important means of communication today is social networking. This study was designed to provide insights into how purchase intention influenced by consumers attitude toward online advertising and brand recognition on social networking site. A survey was conducted with facebook’s users to asses attitude toward online advertising on social networking sites, brand recognition, and ...

A multilayer perceptrcm is used for the classification of noisy fingerprint patteri%. in the first phase the input vector consists of some fiw gmmekricalt features. In the semnd phasq we use some texture-based and dircctioql fkatures. The ou@ut Gectcr is defined in terms of five Asses, viz., whorl, IelI loop, right loop, twin loop and plain arch. PcrklrQation is produced .mndpnfy at p&q1 hark% ...

Adaptation capabilities are becoming more and more popular in applications due to several facts, including heterogeneity of users, devices and physical contexts of use where applications are currently used. Adaptation is not per se good, and poor adaptations usually lead to disappointed users that reject or disable adaptation mechanisms. Therefore, in order for adaptation to reach the mainstrea...

Over the last few years, the proliferation of solid state disk (SSD) based IO solutions triggered an entire benchmarking frenzy, comparing the throughput potential of SSD and hard disk drive (HDD) components, respectively. In most of these performance studies, little is known about the actual HW, OS, and SW setup, benchmark environment, benchmark tool, validation techniques used to asses the be...

Lexical inheritance hierarchies are used widely as a means of representing lexical information efficiently but there have been few attempts to construct them automatically. This paper presents a two-step construction algorithm in which a Galois lattice is built and then pruned into an inheritance hierarchy. The pruning step utilises a maximum entropy model. This is compared to a pruning method ...