The dependent and survwor benefxtartes who lost beneftts because of thetr own earnmgs forfated a total of $303 m~lhon durmg 1975--o* 57 percent of the $529 mtllton that would have been payable to them had there been no deducttons for earnmgs Wtdowed fathers and mothers tended to have higher earnmgs than did other types of benefuarles (table 11) Fifty percent of the wdowed fathers had earnmgs of...

According to Newton’s First Law of Motion. a physical object moving at uniform velocity in one direction will persevere in its state of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force to change that state (Newton. 1687). Smce the visual system has evolved to process information from the physical world. one might expect to find a similar principle of “inertia” in the visual perception of m...

more than half the annual rate of mcrease for 1972 and for 1973 _ The 17 a-percent rise m 1974 of cash and medl-cal care benefits under workers' compensation programs (excludmg the temporary Federal " black lung " program) was the highest annual change smce 1940, the first year for whmh the Social Security Admmmstratlon has complled data The year was also notable for the estabhshment of an Inte...

This book is a celebration of the work of Peter· . . honor people by criticizing them Sing.' .f Smger. Smce philosophers come in for analysis and appr~isal .el tShi wn mlgs on a Wide array of topics . . III S vo ume Smger' t h· VieWS, his normative theory and h· b . . s me aet Ical , IS su stanttve posif h as the moral status of animals th . t f h IOns on suc matters are all subjected to scruti...

The local neighborhood selection plays a crucial role for most representation based manifold learning algorithms. This paper reveals that an improper selection of neighborhood for learning representation will introduce negative components in the learnt representations. Importantly, the representations with negative components will affect the intrinsic manifold structure preservation. In this pa...

Earth dams have been used widely recently in flood and sedimentation control projects and feeding ground waters in country's watersheds and correct locating for such structures is necessary for increasing their efficiency. In this work, it is attempted to determine the correct locations for constricting earth dams in Yoosef-abad watershed in Tabas using v and incorporating information layers. T...