... and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling. There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude of estimates. ... This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer (1970, 1974), considers how investing in differing amounts of schooling affects individual earnings. Over the past ... Plot ofGrowth and Years of Schooling without Test-score Controls Notes: Added-variable plot of a regression of the average annual rate ofgrowth (in percent) of real GDP per capita in 1960-2000...
... Rules for Assigning Initiativeabout the effectiveness of Socratic tutoring in theBEE domain or Socratic tutoring in general.3.2 Initiative Annotation MethodThe two definitions of initiative we ... an-notated using changes in initiative as a starting point; thesechanges were taken as marking either a segment endpoint orthe beginning of a nested segment.tion following a question takes initiative. ... between initia-tive and learning gain. Since Socratic and didacticdialogues also differ in interactivity, we tested therelationship between learning gain and the inter-activity measures of average...
... NICs. Finally, upgrading financial and taxinstitutions was an important element in explaining intercountry differences in rates of economicgrowth at all levels ofeconomic development in contemporary ... investment in infrastructure and industry explained: 50% of the varianceamong countries in patterns of industrialization; 28% in intercountry differences in theextent of expansion of market institutions; ... All of these ushered in a decade of drastic economic decline in developing countries. During the nineteeneighties developing countries': average rates ofeconomicgrowth either declined...
... form of the building of new types of scholls like polytechnic schools and professional schools.Royal Institute of Technology, Karolinska Medical Institute, Institute of For-est, Institute of ... learning by doing, learningf by using, and learning by interaction feed-back into the process of innovation (Lundvall 1992). When bottleneck prob-lems are met and registered in production, or in ... engaged in routine activities. Thus, each national system of innovation is rooted in a na-tional system of production. By underlining the importance of existing eco-nomic structure innovations...
... higher rating indicating a greater degree of economic freedom. The minimum value in the sample is 2.3 in Nicaragua in 1985, the maximum value 9.08 in Honk Kong in1 995 and a mean of 6.06. Moreover, ... political decision making, including checks and balances against presidents, prime ministers, or dictators, as well as methods of aggregating the different opinions of individuals in the society “(Acemoglu, ... determinants of growth. The former is measured in births per woman ranging from 0.93 in Hong Kong in 2005 and 8.25 in Rwanda in 1980 with an average of 3.76. The population density is measured in...
... Processing. Dept. of Computer Science TR-70, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Reinhart, T;mya [1976] The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora. unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Foreign ... and LinBuistics, M.I.T. Rieger, Charles J. [1974] Conceptual Memory: A Theory and Compufer Program for Processing Ihe Meaning Content of Natural Language Utterances. Stanford Artificial Intelligence ... [1979] To,'ards a Computational Thmr 7 of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in £nglish Discour~. unpublished Ph.D. disseration, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.I.T. Webber,...
... few restrictions on it. Aninterpretation of E as an index of embodied quality in different types and vintages of labor, fixed once and for all and independent of levels of K, would be veryrestrictive ... FUNCTIONSAND INGROWTH ANALYSISFor a long time, a major puzzle in the growth literature wasthatthe total measured growthin inputs did not add up to measured growth in output. Consider this puzzle in ... it best. Thereãis, of course, a great deal of evidence that differences in schooling are amajor determinant of differences in wages and income, even holdingmany other things constant.8 Also,...
... accuracy rate of 90.4% in identifying the syntactic roleof an- tecedents. The method described in this paper can be used in resolving syntactic roleof antecedents in relative clauses of other ... frequently in the roleof subject, and codes of position (from 100 to 109), codes of place (from 700 to 709) and codes of building (from 940 to 949) appear most often in the role of object. ... T. Kim. 1997. Semantic Role Determination in Korean Relative Clauses Using Idiomatic Patterns. In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages,...
... results in trimming somethingoff something else; in the case of example (9)above trimming the bush results in trimming thedry branches off the bush. And this is what thesemantic type in (16) ... (example (7)). In this case wischen doesnot entail the existence of a locatum argu-ment. For instance, the act of wiping a boarddoes not necessarily result in wiping some-thing off it.(7)*Peter ... Impingement Predicates In order to capture the semantic properties of thearguments of the most representative verb of theimpingement predicates class in German, the verbschlagen (hit) in...
... coupling enzymes (i.e. in the absence of contaminating ammonium). The number of independent experiments is shown in parentheses. Units of Kmand K0.5are lM; Vmax, Uặ(mg protein))1.HexokinaseATP ... the original intracellular concentration.Determination of glycolytic ux in liver andtumor cellsCells (15 mg proteinặmL)1) were incubated in 3 mL Krebs–Ringer medium with orbital stirring (150 ... the US NIH guidelines for careand use of experimental animals.Determination of steady-state concentrations of metabolitesCells (15 mg proteinặmL)1) were incubated in Krebs-Ringermedium with...
... PAb240 from hybridoma cell lines detected thepresence of the epitope comprising amino acids 212–217 of the p53 protein and represents the amount of p53 proteinloaded in each lane [30]. Phosphorylation ... proteins mutated at specific phos-phorylation targets. Recombinant murine p53 proteins were expressed in insect cells (using the baculoviral expression vector system) and in a mam-malian in vitro ... fromhybridoma cell lines detected the presence of the epitopescomprising amino acids 371–382 and amino acids 370–378 of the p53 protein, respectively [31]. Peroxidase chemilumi-nescence blotting was performed...
... shows a linear increase in rodlength for growth times of 25 - 120 min. Further extensions of the growth time do not lead to a significant increase in average rod lengthowing to consumption of the ... and tip termination. The introduction of KCl (10 mM) re-sults in a significant increase in rod length (860 ± 250 nm) comparedwith growthin the absence of KCl (370 ± 130 nm). Increasing the con-centration ... paths intersect,Fig. 2c, resulting in the termination of some nanorods as growth time increases. This process is supported by the observed increase in (002) diffraction intensity at longer growth...
... glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and its inhi-bition resulted in enhanced insulin secretion.Myotrophin, a protein that has a rolein exocytosis, wasidentified as one of the targets of miR-375. Inhibition ... cancertreatment. Using data from miRNA profiling and knowl-edge of familial history of a certain diseases will help in developing miRNA-based personalized therapy. Detailedunderstanding of the characteristic ... outgrowths during hypertrophythrough the regulation of sprouty 2, an intracellularinhibitor of mitogen-activated protein-kinase signaling.Another miRNA that is consistently up regulated in...