This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determinat...

Abstract Introduction Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is used to describe the range of conditions associated with prenatal exposure. FASD characterized by growth deficits, facial dysmorphia and central nervous system abnormalities. When an individual remains undiagnosed proper interventions are not instituted, secondary disabilities common. Prenatal exposure affects individual’s developm...

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Abstract HESS J1843–033 is a very high energy gamma-ray source whose origin remains unidentified. This work presents, for the first time, spectrum of gamma rays beyond 100 TeV from region using data recorded by Tibet air shower array and its underground muon detector array. A with an extension 0.°34 ± 0.°12 successfully detected above 25 at ( α , δ ) = (281.°09 0.°10, −3.°76 0.°09) near statist...

On 19 September 2012, what has so far been the largest known foodborne outbreak of gastroenteritis in Germany broke out in various schools and childcare establishments in the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. A total of more than 11,000 children and youths suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting. Epidemiological studies conducted by the Robert Koch Institu...

This paper presents some simulations of the proposed California power exchange, or pool, as it might interact with the regional market in the Western U.S. Pooling will increase interdependence with the regional market. We study this using a multi area chronological production simulation model. We find that overall operating economies resulting from pooling are small. Physical changes in the dis...

Nathan Berkovits Instituto de F sica Te orica, Univ. Estadual Paulista Rua Pamplona 145, S~ao Paulo, SP 01405-900, BRASIL e-mail: [email protected] The free action for the massless sector of the Type II superstring was recently constructed using closed RNS superstring eld theory. The supersymmetry transformations of this action are shown to satisfy an N=2 D=10 SUSY algebra with Ramond-Ramon...