This paper considers estimating a panel data simultaneous equations model under both coefficient and covariance matrix restrictions in a scenario where one or the other set of identifying restrictions may be invalid or may hold only weakly. We study the limiting properties of various estimators in an asymptotic framework, which takes both the cross-sectional dimension N and the time dimension T...

Title of dissertation: TESTING ECONOMIC MODELS OF HOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION Julio Caceres-Delpiano, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor William Evans Professor Seth Sanders Department of Economics This dissertation examines the role of household resource allocation on individual human capital accumulation. The main contributions of the dissertation is providing ev...

Introduction: Previously, 186Re and 188Re radioisotopes have been produced through appropriate activities, and each of them has been used for therapeutic applications. The 186Re and 188Re have unique properties, which make them proper for the treatment of  tumors in different sizes. The long-range 188Re, is suitabl...

the concept of a witch hunt is frequently invoked, in recent times, to describe a kind of procedure for deciding the guilt of a person against whom an accusation has been made. But what exactly is a witch hunt? In this paper, ten conditions are formulated as a cluster of properties characterizing the witch hunt as a framework in which arguments are used: (1) pressure of social forces, (2) stigm...

This online survey of practising radiation oncologists from Korea, China and Japan was conducted to investigate the current practices in radiotherapy (RT) for spine metastasis and to compare these practices across the three countries. The questionnaire included nine general information questions and two clinical scenarios (representing 'typical' and 'good' prognosis spine metastasis), with seve...

Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) purchased the digitized United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and American State Papers (1789-1838) from the Readex Division of NewsBank, inc and, once funds and records were available, the accompanying MARC records. The breadth of information found in the Serial Set is described, along with the difficulties in using the print version (inco...

Shucking is one of the necessary parts for the deep process of peanut, and has great impact on the quality of peanut kernel.Taking the shucking force as the evaluation indicator, the effects of mechanical and physical characteristics, which include the loading orientation, loading rate, moisture content, partical size and the number of peanut kernel, on peanut shucking were investigated by mean...

we consider a 2-dimensional representation of the hecke algebra h(g7; u), whereg7 is the complex re ection group and u is the set of indeterminatesu = (x1; x2; y1; y2; y3; z1; z2; z3):after specializing the indetrminates to non zero complex numbers, we then determine a nec-essary and sucient condition that guarantees the irreducibility of the complex specializationof the representation of the ...