A recent study reports that habit formation in consumption can improve the ability of the present value model of the current account (PVM) to forecast actual current account movements because habits make the current account more volatile. This paper, however, shows that the habit-forming PVM is observationally equivalent to the canonical PVM augmented with a transitory consumption shock: the sa...

Corporate sustainable development emphasizes on increasing economic profits without creating environmental and social damages. This study explores the control of drug trafficking in plantation Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) or state-owned enterprise (SOE) area to achieve an company profit. The shall not sacrifice future generation but can still realize development. To improve quality life crea...

China’s property market has been the subject of much media coverage in recent years. Rapid price increases for residential property and the possibility of a price bubble in many cities has led the central government to take a myriad of regulatory measures to cool housing markets. Scholarly attention has focused either on inter-city analyses or case studies of the high-GDP coastal cities like Sh...

OBJECTIVES The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a comparative effectiveness review of interventions for preschoolers at risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS Medline, Cochrane CENTRAL, Embase, PsycInfo, and Education Resources Information Center were searched from 1980 to November 24, 2011. Selected studies were comparative, and enrolled chil...

Different designs have been presented to achieve high concentration and uniformity for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system. Most of the designs have issues of low efficiency in terms of irradiance uniformity. To this end, we present a design methodology to increase irradiance uniformity over solar cell. The system consists of an eight-fold Fresnel lens as a primary optical element (POE) ...

Epitope tagging is a method of expressing proteins whereby an epitope for a specific monoclonal antibody is fused to a target protein using recombinant DNA techniques. The aim of this study was to sub-clone the peroxisomal protein (PEP) cDNA into a mammalian expression vector leading to the formation of a  chimeric PEP-cDNA containing the FLAG epitope. The FLAG-PEP recombinant cDNA was construc...

Superv l sed occupa t l ona l exper ience (SOE) programs are an integral component o f secondary agr icul tural p rograms and provide essent ia l supp o r t t o t h e vocational n a t u r e o f instruct ion (Binkley & B y e r s , 1 9 8 4 ; Newcomb, McCracken, 8 Warmbrod, 1986; Phipps, 1980). Since 1908 , when R u f u s S t l m s o n f i rst I n t r o d u c e d t h e p r o j e c t m e t h o d , ...

Optical design and fabrication techniques are crucial for making optical elements. From conventional lenses to diffractive optical elements and to recent metasurfaces, various types of optical elements have been proposed to manipulate light where optical materials are fabricated into desired structures. Here, we propose a scattering optical element (SOE) that exploits multiple light scattering ...