A scheme is presented in which a Pretty Good Democracy style acknowledgement code mechanism is incorporated into Prêt à Voter. The idea is to provide voters with an immediate, and usable, confirmation at the time of casting of the correct registration of their receipt on the Web Bulletin Board. As with PGD, the registration and revelation of the confirmation code is performed by a threshold set...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2013 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part I,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 456–464. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract In 1911, in support of Paul Otlet’s plan for a universal bibliography, Boleslas Iwinski, a Polish-born economist and labor organizer, estimated the total number of book titles that had...

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LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 781–793. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This paper highlights the history of libraries in Belarus, including the library network development and its current structu...

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Evidence suggests that while women are more likely to go to college than men, they are less likely to go to graduate school. Moreover, in fields like science and engineering, women who do pursue advanced degrees are less likely than men to complete them. This paper compares MBA completion rates for women and men who registered to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). We find that ...

The following article, first published as Actuarial Study No. 99, describes the population projections that underlie the long-range cost estimates for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, which are included in the 1987 Report of the OASDI Board of Trustees. The projections start from a recent estimate of the population in the Social Security Area by age, sex, and ma...

The negative relationship between stock market P/E ratios and government bond yields seems to have become conventional wisdom among practitioners. However, limited empirical evidence and a misleading suggestion that the model originated in the Fed are used to support the model’s plausibility. This article argues that the Fed model is flawed from a theoretical standpoint and reports evidence fro...