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Two-Temperature Discrete Model For Nonlocal Heat Conduction, Sergey Sobolev

Sergey Sobolev

The two-temperature discrete model for heat conduction in heterogeneous media is proposed. It is shown that the discrete model contains as limiting cases both hyperbolic and parabolic heat conduction equations for propagative and diffusive regimes, respectively. To obtain these limiting cases two different laws of continuum limit have been introduced. The evolution of the two-temperature system comprises three stages with distinct time scales : fast relaxation of each subsystem to local equilibrium, energy exchange between the subsystems and classical hydrodynamics.

Pertinent Research And Impertinent Opinion: On Our Contributions To The Cigarette Advertising Public Policy Debates, Richard W. Pollay

Richard W. Pollay

No abstract provided.

Who Enrolled In A State Program For The Uninsured: Was There Adverse Selection?, Paula Diehr

Paula Diehr

Managed care plans may hesitate to participate in programs for uninsured persons because they fear adverse selection, whereby only the sickest people or highest users would choose to join the program. We studied this issue in Washington State's Basic Health Plan, a demonstration program that provides subsidized health insurance for families earning less than 200% of the poverty level. We interviewed people in three counties who enrolled in the program, and compared them to people in the same counties who were eligible but did not enroll. There were substantial differences between enrollees and eligibles in education, age, income, employment, race, …

'Quality Ladders' And Ricardian Trade, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

A Model of endogenous growth and trade is developed that extends the continuum Ricardian model of Dornbusch et al. (1977) to a dynamic framework, generalizes the 'Quality ladders' approach of Grossman and Helpman (1991a,b), and complements the work of Krugman (1987) on dynamic Ricardian economies. In contrast to earlier work the model incorporates heterogeneity across industries in research and production technologies, and in the technological opportunity for innovation. The importance of heterogeneity is demonstrated through a comparative steady-state analysis. Several applications for the model are discussed and many others appear possible given its relatively simple structure.

Tricks Of The Trade For Trade Shows (Part 1), Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

Predicting Birth Weight: Relative Importance Of Sociodemographic, Medical, And Prenatal Care Variables, Terri Combs-Orme, Christina Rtisley-Curtiss, Ronald Taylor

Terri Combs-Orme

This study uses the 1980 National Natality Study to examine the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, medical-risk factors, and prenatal care in predicting birth weight. Findings indicate that both sociodemographic and medical-risk factors are important in predicting birth weight, with medical risks accounting for slightly more variance (after accounting for social variables) in birth weight. Although prenatal care accounts for only 1 percent of the variance, a statistical interaction between prenatal care and labor complications accounts for an additional 1 percent.

La Gestión Urbana: Estrategías, Dilemas Y Retos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

A pesar de la importancia creciente que ha ido adquiriendo el tema ambiental, su avance teórico en relación con la ciudad es insuficiente; al extremo de que aún no se ha logrado construir un marco conceptual que establezca las respectivas mediaciones y relaciones con lo urbano, la planificación y la gestión. No hay una visión integrada o cuando menos integradora; de allí que en este mundo de dicotomías, el maniqueísmo tienda a salir a flote: mientras lo natural, lo rural, el campo son lo bueno, lo artificial, lo urbano, la ciudad son lo malo. En este contexto se ha satanizado, …

Tonga: Rural Employment And Development, Piyasiri Wickramasekara

PIYASIRI WICKRAMASEKARA

The report first highlights the nature of the rural employment problem In Tonga in the early 1990s. It goes on to discuss important Issues affecting the rural and agricultural sectors. The study further reviews the institutional machinery for rural development and makes a number of recommendations for an employment-oriented rural development strategy.

Constitutional Design And Law: The Political Economy Of Cabinet And Congressional Government, Matthew S. R. Palmer

The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer

The dissertation takes a political economy approach to constitutional design and legislation in the Westminster (Cabinet) and US (Congressional) models of government. Part I develops the economics of comparative political organization by constructing a theoretical framework for analyzing constitutional design. Part II applies the framework to distinguish the essences of the Cabinet and Congressional systems of constitutional design in the contexts of US and Canadian federal government. Part III analyzes the effects of the different constitutional designs on the processes of legislating in each system and on the substantive characteristics of legislation in each system. The analysis is subjected to …

The Hazardous Waste Land, Jerry L. Anderson

Jerry L. Anderson

This article was one of the first comprehensive critiques of the Superfund remediation and liability system. The article addresses systemic problems with the CERCLA mechanism that result in inequity and slow the pace of cleanups.

Recharging Your Customer Service Skills, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

Do Communities Differ In Health Behaviors?, Paula Diehr

Paula Diehr

Communities differ in the prevalence of various health behaviors, but it is not known to what extent these differences are due to "different types" of people living in them. We used data from the evaluation of the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Community Health Promotion Grant Program to study individual-level and community-level variation in health behaviors for 15 communities. Our results show (1) there was significant variation among these communities in prevalences of smoking, consumption of alcohol and dietary fat, and use of seatbelts; (2) these differences persisted after control for demographic, health status, and other health behavioral characteristics of …

Book Review - Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Law, John J. Donohue

John Donohue

Book Review - Forbidden Grounds: The case against employment discrimination law by Richard A. Epstein. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press 1992

What-Being: Chuang Tzu Versus Aristotle, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.

Ozgur 1993 Turkiye'nin Ozel Cevre Koruma Bolgeleri Politikasi (Specially Protected Areas Policy Of Turkey) Türkiye'nin Özel Çevre Koruma Bölgeleri Politikası: Foça Örneği, Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Specially protected areas (SPAs) in Turkey were initiated in 1990 with the special interest of Prime Minister Turgut Özal and pressure from international agreements signed by Turkish Government. As of 1992, there were 12 SPAs in 5 provinces, most of them were on shorelines of lakes or seas. The decision making of SPAs policy in Turkey fit to muddling through. It helped to protect special and sensitive areas to be protected. All these SPAs had several small settlements and controversial usages of the land and water areas. The policy helped to control dense and uncontrolled settlements however created issues on …

Networking: Beyond The Buzz Word, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

Supplemental Reply Comments To Fcc Notice Of Inquiry On Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

No abstract provided.

Interest On Estate Taxes: A Comment, Francine J. Lipman, James E. Williamson

Francine J. Lipman

This article illustrates the concepts and the calculations of refundable interest on estate tax overpayments as well as the concepts and the calculations of interest payable on estate tax liabilities.

Your Image Is My Image: When Advertising Dedicates Trademarks To The Public Domain--With An Example From The Trademark Counterfeiting Act Of 1984, Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

Trademark laws protect the mental association between the source n4 of a product and the product itself. This protection allows consumers to locate merchandise of known quality, and motivates suppliers to produce better merchandise. The extent to which trademarks are property rights owned by the controller of the items they identify is controversial. These dual purposes of trademark protection are often phrased as if the objectives reinforce one another. Sometimes, however, the interests conflict. If the public's interests are not recognized they cannot be protected. This article suggests the existence of an ignored public ownership interest. Trademarks may become communicative …

Trips, Trade, And Technology Transfer, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

A North-South model of unintentional technology transfer is developed where the stringency of sountern patent protection provides the institutional backdrop for a strategic game in a high-tech goods market. The appropriability regime is set endogenously and combines elements of imperfect sounthern patent protection with the protection afforded by market-made northern technology "masquing". Less stringent protection of northern intellectual property can "work" much like other strategic trade policies; therefore, developed countries appear to be right in demand discussion of intellectual property rights in GATT.

Working Women: Separate And Not Equal--A Review Article, Laurel A. Grotzinger

Laurel A Grotzinger

No abstract provided.

Here's The Beef: Factors, Determinants And Segments In Consumer Criticism Of Advertising, Richard W. Pollay

Richard W. Pollay

No abstract provided.

Digital Broadband Descrambling Technology - A Compatible Access Control Solution To The Ever-Growing Consumer Electronics Interface Problem, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

Digital Broadband Descrambling ("DBD") is a newly developed digital technology for simultaneous on-channel processing of a large number of TV signals. It utilizes advanced Digital Signal Processing ("DSP") methods for effecting low cost broadband access control signal security compatible with most addressable converters in use today. It provides economically viable option for cable system operators to provide their subscribers with a truly "subscriber friendly" cable service while distributing scrambled video signals on the cable plant and avoiding the need for set-top descramblers.

Unlike existing "single-channel-at-a-time" descrambling technologies, the DBD technology simultaneously descrambles and provides all authorized channels in the clear …

Mutual Versus Unilateral Mistake In Contracts, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ian Ayres

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Courts sometimes allow contracts to be voidable because of mistakes in their basic assumptions. The common wisdom is that rescission is more likely to be granted if the mistake is mutual rather than unilateral---an incorrect belief common to both parties, not just to one. Rescission for mistake can be justified as a way to avoid inefficient transactions and to reduce the costs of collecting information on whether a mistake has been made. These reasons do not justify a general rule distinguishing between mutual and unilateral mistake.

Small Area Variation Analysis. Methods For Comparing Several Diagnosis-Related Groups., Paula Diehr

Paula Diehr

In small-area variation analysis, the variation of health care utilization rates, e.g., admission rates, among small areas is calculated. Frequently, the variation of one diagnosis, diagnosis-related group (DRG), or procedure is compared with the variation of another. Unfortunately, the methods generally used to make these comparisons are not consistent. They differ on whether they 1) adjust for the prevalence of the DRGs, 2) distinguish between variation among areas and variation within areas, 3) weight all areas equally, and 4) adjust for multiple admissions per person. None has an associated confidence interval. These discrepancies occur in part because there is no …

Reply Comments To Fcc Notice Of Inquiry On Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

No abstract provided.

21st Century Physics (A 21. Szazad Fizikaja), Milan Meszaros

Milan Meszaros physicist

Mivel a 21. század alatt ma sokan önkéntelenül is az ezredfordulót vagy az utána következõ néhány évet értik, így fotos kiemelni, hogy jelen tanulmányban nem az ezredforduló fizikája kerül bemutatásra, mert a millennium már nagyon közel van, s így az a fizika alig fog különbözni a jelenlegitõl. (Bár, a jelenlegi fizikai világkép mibenlétének ismertetése is érdeklõdésre tarthatna számot.)

Az elõadásban kísérlet történik a 21. század fizikája és fizikai világképe kontúrjának felrajzolására, de nem bizonyos futurológiai elméletek alapján –mivel a szerzõ szerint az a század eleji ”futurizmus”-nak felelne meg–, hanem, a mai fizikában meglévõ immanens és sajnos alig ismert tendenciák alapján. …

Generalized Linear Models: Software Implementation And The Structure Of A General Power-Link Based Glm Algorithm, Joseph Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Generalized linear modeling (GLM) is currently undergoing a renaissance. The number of software packages offering GLM capability grows each year and as a partial consequence one finds an increased number of research endeavors being modeled using GLM methodology. On the other hand, there have likewise been an increasing number of requests to vendors by users of statistical packages to include GLM facilities amid other offerings. The overall effect has been a near 300 percent increase in GLM programs over the past four years.

I shall discuss the nature of generalized linear models followed by an examination of how they have …

News Media Narratives Of Interethnic Isolation And Confrontation In Post-Andrew Dade County, Florida, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

Hurricane Andrew was the costliest natural disaster to strike the United States, and the strongest hurricane since the 1920s. Andrew permanently changed the landscape by wiping out entire communities and scattering the people who lived in them. At least 20 deaths were directly attributed to the storm. Property damage was calculated into the tens of billions of dollars. We can lessen the impact of such a future event upon people by gaining a greater understanding of the communication patterns that develop among survivors after a hurricane or other natural disaster has passed--particularly, survivors of differing ethnic and cultural backgrounds. By …

Tensor Operators Iii, Some Fundamental Tensor Operator Identities, Daniel Flath, J. Towber

Daniel Flath

No abstract provided.