Many studies find that gender-based inequalities in education reduce economic growth, because such inequalities decrease the overall human capital available within the country. Notwithstanding the methodological limitations alluded to earlier, Morrison, Raju, and Sinha (2007) report striking findings from work undertaken by Klasen (2002). Klasen estimates the effect of the gender gap in years o...

Experiments have been performed to study the active reduction of sound transmission through single and double gypsum board constructions. The active control scheme was based on the feedforward and feedback control strategies. The ElectroMechanical Film flat panel actuators were tested. These actuators attached to the radiating surface of the lightweight partition can significantly reduce the so...

The scope of the project was to assess the value of using high-resolution, very large displays in a hospital setting. We applied a scenario informed prototyping method and user-involvement in order to do this. Initial results suggest that the technology could prove very useful in clinical conferencing settings like the communicating process between the radiology department and the other hospita...

Ab&act The structural performance of medium density fiberboard (MDF) is attributable to three primary variables which are: physical and mechanical properties of individual wood fibers; fiber-to-fiber stress transfer; and fiber orientation. These origins of fiber properties and stress transfer can be traced to the fiber generation method wherein fiber orientation is associated with mat formation...

“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...

Article history: Received 2 February 2009 Received in revised form 1 November 2009 Accepted 13 December 2009 Available online 22 December 2009 We investigate the relationship between interest group activity and investment by analyzing an unbalanced panel of observations on 126 countries over three time periods. We find that the number of interest groups in a nation is negatively related to inve...

Two layer displays are constructed by overlaying one transparent flat panel on another, with a discernible physical separation between layers. This layout could increase the available pixels without increasing the width and height of the display. However, it is unclear if the second physical layer provides any advantage over simple alpha-blended transparency on a single layer display. We invest...

Article Type: Full Length Research Article Microalgae have the potential to produce enough biofuels to meet current US fuel demands. In order to achieve this potential, photobioreactors (PBRs) that are efficient, scalable, and affordable need to be developed. Models are an analytical tool that can be used to evaluate various PBRs. In this article, a physics-based dynamic model was developed for...

The hypothesis that futures rates are unbiased and efficient predictors of future spot interest rates has been one of the most controversial topics in the empirical literature on market efficiency. The first part of this article concentrates on the question of whether the hypothesis that rates are unbiased holds for the 3-month Euribor futures market. The empirical analysis differs from usually...

We study the detection problem of finding planted solutions in random instances of flat satisfiability problems, a generalization of boolean satisfiability formulas. We describe the properties of random instances of flat satisfiability, as well of the optimal rates of detection of the associated hypothesis testing problem. We also study the performance of an algorithmically efficient testing pr...