Internal Revenue Service data indicate that $4.4 billion in excess EITC was claimed for tax year 1994, largely due to violations of the qualifying child eligibility criteria. I find that the probability of misreporting a child is increasing in the size of the EITC and tax benefit. The estimated effect of the EITC on compliance is statistically significant, but modest in size. Reducing the size ...

This paper provides an appraisal of countries that have legislations pertaining to assisted reproductive technologies (ART). In doing so, the paper highlights the emphasis on the protection of reproductive freedom of the couples seeking ART treatment. This belief is grounded primarily on the basic notion of liberalism that attaches primary importance to respect for individual freedom, which is ...

This 10th statement of the Task Force on Ethics and Law considers ethical questions specific to varied surrogacy arrangements. Surrogacy is especially complex as the interests of the intended parents, the surrogate, and the future child may differ. It is concluded that surrogacy is an acceptable method of assisted reproductive technology of the last resort for specific medical indications, for ...

This paper proposes and verifies methods to improve the isolation of the attosecond pulses generated via the attosecond lighthouse technique in gases. We find that the converging fundamental field can compensate for the inherent diverging wavefront of the attosecond pulses, but is only valid over a limited portion of the spectrum and sacrifices the maximum attainable photon energy. We discuss t...

We demonstrate how two Novint Falcons, inexpensive commercially available haptic devices, can be modified to a create a reconfigurable five-degreeof-freedom (5-DOF) haptic device for less than $500 (including the two Falcons). The device is intended as an educational tool to allow a broader range of students to experience force and torque feedback, rather than the 3-DOF force feedback typical o...

Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies has a tradition of about 25 years. The basic technologies and ideas were found until 1995 while the last decade was dominated by the utilisation of such technologies. The question arises if there is a market for Privacy Enhanced Technology. The answer is yes, however Privacy Enhancing Technology may not have been broadly known yet in order to make it p...

OBJECTIVES We examined the prevalence of Early Intervention (EI) enrollment in Massachusetts comparing singleton children conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART), children born to mothers with indicators of subfertility but no ART (Subfertile), and children born to mothers who had no indicators of subfertility and conceived naturally (Fertile). We assessed the natural direct effect...

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR STRATEGIC BUSINESS: EVALUATION, MEASUREMENT AND OTIMIZATION THROUGH MULTICRITERIA DECISION METHOD Subject are: Strategic Business Policy Ricardo DaSilva CNPq Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento de C&T SEPN 507, Ed. CNPq, s. 111 70.774-300 Brasília, DF, Brazil [email protected] Feruccio Bilich UnB – Universidade de Brasília Campus Universitário, Asa Norte 70.9...

Security and privacy issues have become far more critical and complex in the Internet era. Balancing security enhancement and privacy protection remains a key challenge involving both technical and non-technical issues. It is crucial to restructure computer and software engineering curricula to familiarize students with the challenges and opportunities associated with the security and privacy i...