• This paper represents a very first draft on an ongoing research project. • In it present extension (some 20 000 words), it is more a has more a book chapter format than an article one. • A simplified, but complete version of the argument and the empirical evidence can be obtained by reading sections 1-2 and 7-8 only (some 8000 words in total), oriented to newcomers into welfare state research...

* I would like to thank all the participants to a session of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association held in New York City on 3 rd and 4 th January 1999, in which a first draft of this paper was presented. Remarks, critiques and suggestions were very useful. I am especially grateful to Lawrence Moss. Usual caveats apply.

The Japanese sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus Selenka 1867) is an economically important species as a source of seafood and ingredient in traditional medicine. It is mainly found off the coasts of northeast Asia. Recently, substantial exploitation and widespread biotic diseases in A. japonicus have generated increasing conservation concern. However, the genomic knowledge base and resources ...

for dissemination) This deliverable presents a first version of a series of 5 documents, to be delivered each 6 months and whose target is to give guidelines for the application of Knowledge IT to practitioners in the field of in large E-Commerce and Knowledge Management. This series of documents is primarily aimed at anyone who is involved in the process of designing, building and managing Kno...

The primary goal of the this project was to demonstrate the feasibility of detecting changes in shaft natural frequencies (such as those associated with a shaft crack) on rotating machinery in electric power generation plants using non-contact, nonintrusive measurement methods. During the operation of power plant equipment, torsional natural frequencies are excited by turbulence, friction, and ...

Using revision to produce extended natural language text through a series of drafts provides three significant advantages over a traditional natural language generation system. First, it reduces complexity through task decomposition. Second, it promotes text polishing techniques that benefit from the ability to examine generated text in the context of the underlying knowledge from which it was ...

In table 1 I report mean values of selected student characteristics that are determined prior to university attendance, separately by tracking/random assignment period and by dormitory/non-dormitory status. I report p-values from testing if these means are equal across dormitory students in the tracking and random assignment periods (column 4) and across non-dormitory students in the tracking a...