Model Advocates or a Model for Change? the Model Equal Opportunity Briefing Policy as Affirmative Action

Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

This paper considers a Burdett–Judd model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage dispersion between and within the two worker groups, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal–pay policy...

Optimal overhaul–replacement policy for a multi-degraded repairable system sold with warranty

In this research, we study an optimal overhaul–replacement policy of a multi-degraded repairable system sold with a free replacement warranty. In the proposed replacement policy, a maintenance action and failure are dependent on a system degradation level and the system age, and hence the replacement model will provide more effective maintenance decisions. Failure of the system is modeled using...

Effects of ionic parameters on behavior of a skeletal muscle fiber model

All living cells have a membrane which separates inside the cell from it's outside. There is a potential difference between inside and outside of the cell. This potential difference will change during an action potential. It is quite common to peruse action potentials of skeletal muscle fibers with the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Since Hodgkin and Huxley summarized some controlling currents like inwa...

UNC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. Error Correction of a Large Architectural Model: The Henderson County Courthouse

Affirmative Action or Managing Diversity - What is the Future of Equal Opportunity Policies in Organisations?

Equal employment opportunity policies were introduced in Australia from the 1980s in response to women’s disadvantaged workforce position. Australia’s unique form of affirmative action was underpinned by legislation and aimed to promote gender equity in the workplace via employer action. Throughout the 1990s there has been a policy shift away from collectivism towards individualism and away fro...