We examined whether the frequent casual reports of people resembling their pets are accurate by having observers attempt to match dogs with their owners. We further explored whether any ability of observers to make such matches is due to people selecting dogs who resemble them, in which case the resemblance should be greater for predictable purebreds than for nonpurebreds, or is due to converge...

This paper describes a lightweight approach to adding run-time checked downcasts to a language in the presence of ownership types without the need for a run-time representation of owners. Previous systems [6] have required owners of objects to be tracked and matched at run-time which is costly in terms of memory and performance. Our proposal avoids run-time overhead to deal with owners and also...

S OF CURRENT LITERATURE 66 DIGEST OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE ARTIFICIAL LIMB PROGRAM 68 P R O S T H E T I C S R E S E A R C H B O A R D NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES—NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 2101 Constitution Ave. Washington 25, D. C. Artificial Limbs is a publication of the Prosthetics Research Board, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, issued twice a year, in the spring an...

Environmental problems often arise from deficient, uncertain or confusing information about what ecosystem goods and services are available, how they are important to humans, who benefits and over what scales, combined with incomplete, inconsistent or unenforceable rules, rights and responsibilities. Establishing rules, rights and responsibilities at the range of spatial and temporal scales at ...

The lack of access to formal credit at affordable cost (effective interest) is the most critical constraint faced by the rural entrepreneurs to get involved in productive profitable business activities. This study explores the causes behind the widespread existence of informal credits as investment capital for small house-based business. Based on a primary survey on house based industrial owner...

Many government and private programs provide incentives for non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners. Due to the complexity of this web of programs, the incentives of the programs are unclear. We focus on four specific programs that represent different rule structures—a federal cost-share program, a state tax incentive program, a nationwide private stewardship program, and a local private co...

a number of new concepts have emerged in the last two decades whose proponents claim that if achieved, they would deliver more sustainable urban environments. among them, new urbanism and urban village are the ones with the most theoretical support and practical application. both ideas, however, have been criticized in several grounds. but no study has been carried out to show the effectiveness...

OBJECTIVE To compare risk factors for cardiovascular disease in pet owners and non-owners. DESIGN AND PATIENTS Accepted risk factors for cardiovascular disease were measured in 5741 participants attending a free, screening clinic at the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne. Blood pressure, plasma cholesterol and triglyceride values were compared in pet owners (n = 784) and non-owners...

This paper uses new household survey data to study expectation formation during the recent housing boom in Germany. The cross section of forecasts depends on only two characteristics: location and tenure. average a region responds local conditions but underpredicts price growth. Renters make higher hence more accurate than owners, although their are dispersed mean squared forecast errors higher...

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