In this article, I seek to find whether the type of government in a country affects the amount of education provided. To do this, I propose a model where political power is distributed throughout the population, and their choice to support a government is based on an observable factor; whether the government provides access to education. Using the results from this model, I propose 3 hypotheses...

Executive Summary Ensuring safety requires reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that can disrupt normal operations. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment and the environment, it is important to consider safety from all asp...

Computer-based simulation and visualization tools had helped to evaluate new algorithms for incident detection and strategies for incident management. Applications of such tools enable users to evaluate solutions faster than real-time. However, it seems that there is still scope to better investigate situations like traffic incidents and study their impacts, more thoroughly by employing techniq...

BACKGROUND In traditional laparoscopic cholecistectomy, the cystic duct and artery are commonly closed by metallic clips just before their division. Although the placement of these clips for occluding cystic artery and duct can be considered safe, biliary leaks and bleeding may occur especially by its dislodgement. AIM To report a prospective case-series in total clipless cholecystectomy by m...

1 Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University, Engineering Technology, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] 2 Dr. Barbara Sylvester, Western Washington University, University Writing Program, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] Abstract -In teaching the Engineering Technology Department’s new ethics course, instructors from Western Washington University’s Writing Program and ...

Abstract. Sea ice is composed of discrete units called floes. Observations show that these floes can adopt a range sizes spanning orders magnitude, from metres to tens kilometres. Floe size impacts the nature and magnitude interactions between sea ice, ocean, atmosphere including lateral melt rate momentum heat exchange. However, large-scale geophysical models employ continuum approach traditio...

background: female sexual dysfunction (fsd) defines as any disorder in the process of sexual contact including 6 main domains, desire, arousal, lubrication,  orgasm,  orgasm  satisfaction  and  pain. this study was conducted to evaluate prevalence of sexual dysfunction disorder in women with migraine headache and also find the associated factors related to migraine characteristics. methods: a t...

Abstract Introduction Premature Ejaculation (PE) is ejaculation that always or nearly occurs prior to within about one minute of vaginal penetration, together with the inability retard ejaculation. There are multiple factors consider and not all sexologists, psychologists, therapists agree definitions presently found in sexual literature. This makes it difficult have clear statistics incidence,...

We propose an all-fiber method for the generation of ultrafast shaped pulse train bursts from a single pulse based on Fourier Series Developments (FDSs). The implementation of the FSD based filter only requires the use of a very simple non apodized Superimposed Fiber Bragg Grating (S-FBG) for the generation of the Shaped Output Pulse Train Burst (SOPTB). In this approach, the shape, the period ...

This paper proposes a unified approach to modeling heterogonous risk-taking behavior in route choice based on the theory of stochastic dominance (SD). Specifically, the first-, second-, and third-order stochastic dominance (FSD, SSD, TSD) are respectively linked to insatiability, risk-aversion and ruin-aversion within the framework of utility maximization. The paths that may be selected by trav...