Information and Knowledge Society is involved into a more challenging phenomenon than ever. The ability of mobile devices to access information and services from anywhere and anytime is the main reason that empowers the massive usage of this kind of technology. Software quality has to be improved by developing mobile device interaction models according to the user necessities. These necessities...

In this research paper so as to handle Data in warehousing as well as reduce the wastage of data and provide a better results which takes more and more turn into a focal point of the data source business. Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are vital fundamentals of resolution hold, which has more and more become a focal point of the database manufacturing. Lots of marketa...

The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commodity taxes are not needed if an optimal nonlinear income tax is imposed. Redistributive objectives can be achieved with the income tax alone even if goods differ considerably in their income elasticities of demand. Deaton showed that if the government is restricted to a linear progressive income tax al...

Emotional relationships with material objects can not be thought asisolated from social and material conditions of existence. This paper isan attempt to introduce the question of economic means into debates on“design and emotion”. It firstly addresses the role of economic means increditing objects with emotions and subsequently evaluates approachesof ‘design and emotion’ wit...

To evaluate the association between relative deprivation (lacking daily necessities) and subjective health in older Japanese adults, we performed a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES). The data were obtained from functionally independent residents aged ≥65 years from 24 municipalities in Japan (n = 24,742). Thirteen items in three dimension...

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has emphasized its disincentive effects for labor supply, but has largely ignored the insurance benefits provided by this public program. This paper directly assesses the consumption smoothing benefits of UI using two different sources of consumption data, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). The fo...