Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approach and a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European countries and the US. The effect of education on t...

In this paper, I propose that the availability of a bound variable reading for pronouns is predictable from their morphological structure of the pronouns. More specifically I argue that noun-containing pronouns cannot be bound variables. My proposal is different from D&W's (2002) argument in that in their theory, every DPs cannot have a bound variable reading, while in my theory, even DPs can h...

Looking broadly at the central part of the Book of Revelation, one notices a very special concern with chronology. This central part of the text (Rev 11-13) describes events occurring during various periods of time, all of which appear to be of more or less the same duration and equivalent to three and a half years. Three different expressions of time are mentioned: 1260 days is found twice (at...

The growing popularity of look-up table (LUT)based field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s) has renewed the interest in functional or Roth–Karp decomposition techniques. Functional decomposition is a powerful decomposition method that breaks a Boolean function into a set of subfunctions and a composition function. Little attention has so far been given to the problem of selecting good subfunctio...

The technological capabilities of an online-learning environment allow an instructor to make an online class better than a face-to-face class by providing students with learning activities that are individualized to meet their needs and characteristics. One possible learning activity is an illustrated web lecture, which consists of a text-based presentation, such as PowerPoint, with an audio re...

ion over assignments (^) allows us to bring the free variable pronoun into the scope of the quantifier. The indefinite's translation contains a state (=assignment) switcher {x\d}. This effectively associates a free variable d with the indefinite, though unlike DRT, solely for binding purposes. When {x\d} is prefixed to a proposition p, it sets the discourse marker d in p to the value of x, the ...

background: depression is one of the most common and specific problems during pregnancy and after it. maternal postpartum depression compromises mothers’ health and affected social relationship and has negative effect on infant development.  the aimed of this study was to investigate the prevalence of postpartum depression and its related factors in isfahanian mothers. methods:this is a cross -...