... fact of considering only one ofthe channels in the regression (either the change, which given the MASTER THESIS: THEEFFECTOF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH negative correlation, would lead to ... specially the definition of human capital In order to measure the impact of this misspecification, the authors analyze two specifications forthe regression of economic growth on human capital : • One ... estimates comparable among them One ofthe main conclusions of his work is that the mincerian regression adjusts quite well the data and that the correlation between return to schooling and GDP per capita...
... following the TARP capital infusions This provides additional information about how the banks changed the pricing on their loans along with the risk profile The nominal interest rate ofthe loan is one ... change in the risk of loan originations The inclusion ofthe bank fixed effects (bank i) and time fixed effects (quarter t) produces a difference-in-differences estimate oftheeffectofthe TARP ... total, there were 441 TARP recipients during this time period The Treasury information includes the identity and location ofthe institution, the date the institution received TARP funds, and the...
... Science and Urban Economics andthe Canadian Journal of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational ... the political, economic and legal contexts of each period He also discusses broadly the evolution ofthe content of BITs as well as the legal enforceability of their substantive provisions, and ... served as consultant to the U.S Treasury andthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on tax competition issues and has been a member ofthe executive committee ofthe New...
... N Cawthon and A Vande Moere, "A Conceptual Model for Evaluating Aesthetic Effect within the User Experience of Information Visualization," in Tenth International Conference on Information Visualisation ... associated to the highest level of perceived beauty, averaging a ranking of 58 and Rate of Correct response (%) Error response time (seconds) Rate of Abandonment (%) Abandon Response time (seconds) TreeMap ... tracked the order of sections as well as their randomized set of visualization techniques and corresponding task retrieval questions Instead of using the full set of 11 visualizations, randomized...
... interactions that would otherwise act as destabilizing forces for native-like conformations Conclusions The comparison of apo- and holo-lMb by MD simulations reveals a dramatic effectofthe heme cofactor, ... also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns ofthe simulation (Fig 2) A comparison ofthe hydrogen-bond distances in Figs and indicates ... comparison ofthe backbone conformations before and ˚ after the MD simulation runs, which are 3.28 A for ˚ for apo-lMb (Fig 6) holo-lMb and 4.99 A These findings provide some clues forthe interpretation...
... inhibition constant forthe slope effectFor inhibition constants involving intercept effects, the reciprocal ofthe apparent Vmax was plotted against the concentration of inhibitory product andthe ... determining theeffectof pH onthe kinetic parameters of a two-substrate enzyme, one substrate is held at 10 · Km (91% saturating) andthe variation of initial rate with the concentration ofthe second ... 5) andthe reaction was initiated by the addition of sBVR-A (5 lg) The concentrations of NADPH are indicated andthe concentrations of biliverdin-IXa were 0.5 lM ( ), lM ( ), lM (.), lM (r) and...
... the factor needed to transform the standard deviation ofthe coefficient in the original equation to the standard deviation ofthe impact on population probabilities For example, a listed standard ... effectonthe probability of a year with at least one day, the mean effecton days conditional on any days, andthe smearing factor To calculate theeffectof a variable onthe probability of a year ... variance ofthe log of those factors to get the variance ofthe log ofthe estimated effects on total days Residuals and predictions for log(days) are independent by construction Proof that the first...
... allocated into the intervention and control groups respectively The mean age was 72.9 (SD ¼ 9.5) forthe intervention group and 76.3 (SD ¼ 8.4) forthe control group The Chinese version ofthe Geriatric ... Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale This indicated that the whole spectrum ofthe five-point scales was utilized in the reflection of quality of life ofthe ... Participants in the intervention group, however, received one hour practice of qigong, twice a week, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, on top ofthebasic rehabilitation activities The Eight-Section...
... (1984) for a comparison ofthe U.K and U.S health systems 32 It is also hard to attribute these results to the content of these additional years of education One might worry that the quality of these ... datasets with information on quarter of birth) For each dataset, we present separate regression discontinuity estimates ofthe effect ofthe reform onthe fraction of individuals of each birth cohort ... that they not contain any education information Hence, while we can use them to estimate the effects of these law changes on education, we cannot use them to estimate the effects of education on...
... being one ofthe most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought andthe price of rice reported by the households in the second, ... above the age of 15, there is no significant association between BMI levels or BMI drops and drought forthe average person in 15 the sample (columns and 4) For children below the age of 5, the ... would not capture the true monetary impact ofthe shocks Rather would the simple reduced-form relation ofthe shock and household welfare yield an underestimate ofthe true cost ofthe shock if endogenous...
... exception ofthe interaction effectforthe child ofthe woman with some college education Using conventional methods of computing the marginal effectof a continuous 28 variable and its interaction ... the distribution of There are four equations in the model; therefore, k consists of four vectors each representing the set of heterogeneity 14 parameters in one ofthe equations Conditional ... of a fixed effect estimator, onthe other hand, may lead to the significant loss of degrees of freedom, reduction in the variability of covariates, and exacerbation oftheeffectof measurement...
... due to the inhibition of renal tubular secretion of creatinine by acyclovir, and not entirely the result of decreased GFR To the best of our knowledge, theeffect [8] of acyclovir onthe renal ... compartment ofthe cell culture chamber contained respective radiolabeled and non-radiolabeled substrates andthe medium added to the apical compartment ofthe cell culture chamber contained neither ... conducted on confluent cell monolayers At the time of commencement ofthe transport experiments, the growth medium from the cell culture chamber was removed and both sides ofthe cell monolayers...
... mean and standard deviation ofthe ranging error for each condition, as well as the frequency ofthe condition (number of configurations belonging to the condition over the total number of configurations ... (RMSE) ofthe estimation for each location in the grid (identified by the node ID) is reported forthe case of N = (tx1,tx3,tx5) and N = beacons There is no priori information about the environment ... Δk ·c, and pk can be taken as the frequency of all the configurations with the same extra propagation delay Δk between the ith beacon andthe (i) target For example, forthe scenario considered,...
... representations of each core, one to show the cross section view andthe other to show the longitudinal view of incremental growth The cross section cuts ofthe samples were used for this study ... µ is grand mean, Ri is replicate effect, Cj is the pedigree effect, Pk is the population (inbreeding) effect, CPjk is the interaction effect between pedigree and population and Eijkl is the residual ... age 12 and then fluctuated over the next and years The age trend of wood density, the very small influence of inbreeding on mean wood density, the impact of growth rate on wood density, and the...
... advocacy, the information consumers could not fully understand, they may lose the control over the information and have to take the risk of misunderstanding the information However, the incomplete ... behavior and can affect information searching (Brucks 1985; Rao and Sieben 1992) and information processing (Alba and Hutchinson 1987; Bettman and Park 1980; Johnson and Russo 1980; Rao and Monroe ... were about an eplay cell phone, andthe contents included the photographs of e-play cell phones andthe descriptions of cell phone function with or without terminology The six terminologies including...
... Correlation ofthe dipole moment with the Hammett constants ofthe substituents It is evident from the table II that electron-donating substituents onthe phenyl ring increase the pKa of anilines ... Fugure Correlation of QN with the Hammett constants ofthe substituents According to the table 2, electron-donating substituents decrease the dipole moment of compounds and electron-withdrawing ... influences of substituents on chemical reactions and equilibria Accordingly, it is reasonable to expect that they might also provide a reliable measure ofthe substituents effects onthe pKa of the...
... of forest conditions after liming showed that liming has both positive and negative effects onthe forests Thus the long-term monitoring of forest conditions after liming is required There ... There exist a lot of data onthe liming effectonthe soil chemistry changes but data onthe liming effectonthe mineral nutrition of forests are scarce Thus, the mineral nutrition of mountain Norway ... characteristics ofthe spruce stands on limed and not limed plots are shown in Table The evaluation ofthe mineral nutrition of spruce stands was carried out onthe basis of regular collections of needle...