... Institutional Inequality andtheMobilizationofthe Family and Medical Leave Act How the rights created by the Family and Medical Leave Act operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This ... shape the process of rights mobilization Catherine R Albiston is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley She is active in the American Sociological Association andthe Law and ... in their roles as workers, including Title VII ofthe Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title I ofthe ADA, and most recently the FMLA Although these statutes explicitly recognize the status of women and...
... imagined other ‘homeland’, upon the possibility of migration, and upon their mother’s or father’s migration histories to construct a sense of who they are with regards to their mixed-ethnic and cross-national ... construction ofthe “JFC” is part of a political and a symbolic struggle by individuals and NGOs which have established themselves as legitimate mouthpieces ofthe “JFC” and their Filipino mothers As ... include the determining andlegalizationof their status in Japan (Kyodo News Int 1994 e) The request for cooperation emerged at around the same time as the case of “Baby Andrew”, an abandoned...
... (Goetz and Shenoi 2008), the protection of intellectual property of firms and countries (Andrijcic and Horowitz 2006), the financial integrity of investment firms (Jolly 2008), andthe control of ... main safeguards in place, and concludes that there may be a need to reconsider some of them in view ofthe growing role of nonbanks andofthe global reach of risks in the electronic era Introduction ... Technology and Policy Adoption, Combating Cybercrime, Privacy and Trust Information Risk andthe Economics of Security presents the latest research on the economics driving both the risks andthe solutions...
... Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin of life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store information, ... account for the diversity of life in the biosphere, it is generally recognized that the origin of life is one ofthe great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this ... quantify theinformation in biopolymers – especially DNA, RNA, and protein, the molecules that are essential for information storage, replication, and metabolism Then we will explore the concept of...
... shows that the cost of capital ofthe firm depends on four factors: the risk free rate, the aggregate risk tolerance ofthe market, the expected cash flow ofthe firm, andthe covariance ofthe firm’s ... ours, the nature ofthe cross-sectional impact on the covariance, and therefore the cost of capital, differs in their paper because ofthe different information structure assumed When theinformation ... the ratio ofthe expected future cash flow to the covariance ofthe firm’s cash flow with the sum of all cash flows in the market is a key determinant ofthe cost of capital Next, we add an information...
... ING Barings is also the fifty per cent owner ofthe Netherlands Post With the Postbank andthe Netherlands Post under the same ownership, the two institutions can again tap the synergies possible ... Savings andthe Provision of Financial Services widely seen as part ofthe agenda of Germany’s commercial banks to force the privatization and then take over the Landesbanks Even though the Sparkassen ... corporation, and several to privatized systems Europe has had the most occurrences of privatization of postal operations, andthe entire systems ofthe Netherlands and Germany have been privatized The...
... decrease the ffects ofthe tax rate increase on the quantity of labour supplied and he quantity of leisure demanded Estimates ofthe marginal cost of public funds: In Australia and other OECD ... prevails q is the probability ofthe high price prevailing (1-q) is the probability ofthe low price prevailing r is the rate of interest The expected value ofinformation is: The expected project ... work out the cost to the economy of displacing $50 worth of private consumption and $50 worth of private investment: • the loss of $50 worth of private consumption costs $50 • the $50 worth of private...
... notion ofinformation on ideas from information theory The function of various measures ofinformation content for quantum systems is explored andthe applicability ofthe Shannon information in the ... currently made ofthe concept ofinformation in physics, following the rapid growth ofthe fields of quantum information theory and quantum computation These are new and exciting fields of physics ... to the question ofthe implications of quantum information theory for our understanding ofthe meaning ofthe quantum formalism Following some preliminary remarks, two particular information- theoretic...
... more turns, and so on, if they can point in the general direction ofthe entrance, they have demonstrated that they can visualize the real world in their mind, and sequentially follow their steps ... fundamentally, security is about the management of loss or risk Information security is about the management of loss ofinformationandthe resulting cost of that loss, a.k.a risk It is therefore important ... caused tens of billions of dollars in damage andthe loss of thousands of lives Power outages have a cumulative cost of billions of dollars as well, and are caused by a wide variety of natural...
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... at the end: “What about the seven wonders ofthe world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the ... colours, the seven notes ofthe musical scale, andthe seven days ofthe week?” Miller’s idea is illustrated in Figure 1.1, where the xaxis gives the amount ofinformation received andthe yaxis ... blocks and then one block to the left andthe right again for three blocks, then left and then three right, and you’re there,” your chances of getting lost start to increase It is too much information...
... spacing ofthe transmitter and receiver (in units of wavelengths), respectively Let the weighted matrix M = I and g = in the case ofthe weighted norm constraint, and T = I and g = 0.5 in the other ... indicates the clutter data collected by the receiver, r (θi) is the reflect coefficient ofthe clutter patch at θi, and NC (NC ≫ MtMr the number of spatial samples ofthe clutter The term W denotes the ... relative error ofthe clutter estimate is defined as the ratio ofthe estimation error ofthe initial total clutter power to the exact one Figure shows the CRB versus the estimation error ofthe initial...
... in the compensation set, so that the peak value ofthe combined signal is reduced The location of these two sets remains fixed for all codewords and over all uses ofthe channel Ofthe handful of ... carry information, while the other is used to reduce the peak value We will call these two sets theinformation set andthe compensation set Given a set of coefficients for the tones in theinformation ... an information set, and RN = {−N , , N } \ IN , a compensation set We call the ratio ofthe number of tones in theinformation set to the total number of tones available the efficiency of the...
... multiplication; the stabilizer ofthe coset W is W and therefore the stabilizer of a coset W τ i is the image of W under τ i Since such elements cover all elements of V , and since the only elements of p-power ... with the definition ofthe fB Now the Pi and Bj form a symmetric tactical decomposition ofthe tactical configuration whose points are the points of Σn−1 and whose blocks are the elements of B Therefore ... a subspace of V , say of co-dimension c, such that the union of all images of W under τ covers all elements of V Then G acts transitively on the set W \G of right cosets of W in G (of size kpc...
... case of Theorem 1.4 In this section we give the proof of a special case of Theorem 1.4, namely when all the ni ’s are equal to n ≥ Throughout, G denotes the direct product of q copies ofthe symmetric ... ≥ Then I is closed under the fixing operation Proof Let L denote the set of all n-subsets L of Sym(Ω) such that for each i, the elements of L restricted to Ωi form the rows of a Latin square of ... contradicting the maximality of I So |I| = (m − 1)!m(n − 1)! Again, the maximality of I implies that m = n and so I has the required shape as above Proof of Theorem 1.4 As before, the upper bound of |I|...
... /u2 v2 and variance s2 The standard EM algorithm is developed to obtain the estimates ofthe unknown vector By differentiating the log-likelihood of equation (6) with respect to two groupsof unknown ... Algorithm n can be estimated by treating the position is fixed Using a grid search, we can obtain the MLE ofthe QTL position from the peak ofthe profile ofthe log-likelihood ratio test statistics ... at the first and second QTLs; (12) J ag is the additive × dominant epistatic effect due to the interaction between the substitutions from allele to at the first QTL andthe dominant effect at the...
... analysis ofthe transcriptome and metabolome during ripening of Trincadeira grapes The combined analysis of transcripts and metabolites contributed to the elucidation of many aspects of carbohydrate, ... American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 1992, 129-133 37 Dartiguenave C, Jeandet P, Maujean A: Study ofthe Contribution ofthe Major Organic Acids of Wine to the Buffering Capacity of Wine in ... analysis and functional categorization of Unigenes The mRNA expression profiles of four time points (EL 32, EL 34, EL 35 and EL 36) and two seasons (2007 and 2008) were compared using the Affymetrix...
... Interactive nature ofthe clinical scenarios Worst feature Several ofthe vignettes contain unnecessary text that becomes a nuisance to skim through Wish list More scenarios in the format ofthe ‘trauma ... scenarios’ Other links MDchoice.com — http://www.MDchoice.com This website contains two interactive scenarios for each ofthe topic areas of advanced cardiac life support, of acute leg swelling andof ... Overall, I found the trauma scenarios to be well presented and educational More importantly, they were actually fun to work through, and seemed to be appreciated by a diverse group of medical users...