In this article, we examine the market structure for real estate brokerage services across six large metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to see whether low-income neighborhoods, or neighborhoods where house prices are low, are as well served by real estate professionals as higher income or higher priced neighborhoods. We collect more than 300,000 real estate listings and compute the Herfindah...

Shared tasks are indisputably drivers of progress and interest for problems in NLP. This is reflected by their increasing popularity, as well as by the fact that new shared tasks regularly emerge for under-researched and under-resourced topics, especially at workshops and smaller conferences. The general procedures and conventions for organizing a shared task have arisen organically over time (...

The S. cerevisiae genome is the most well-characterized eukaryotic genome and one of the simplest in terms of identifying open reading frames (ORFs), yet its primary annotation has been updated continually in the decade since its initial release in 1996 (Goffeau et al., 1996). The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD; www.yeastgenome.org) (Hirschman et al., 2006), the community-designated reposit...

A specific form of the Mellin transform, referred to as the “scale transform,” is known to be a natural complement to the Fourier transform for wideband analytic signals. In this paper, limitations for the simultaneous localization of scale transform pairs are investigated. A number of inequalities are established and discussed, based on various measures of spread (Heisenberg-type inequalities ...

In the Western world, consumers complain about the soaring of non-interest bank fees during the recent years, the post global financial crisis in particular. Commercial banks charge a variety of non-interest fees for their transactions. This paper empirically tests whether the free charges are significantly different between conventional commercial banks and interest free Islamic banks. The ave...

Modern economic growth is viewed through the prism of paradigm sustainable development. This work presents reasons for difficulties transition to development an economy with a high share extractive industry and shows that effective implementation Sustainable Development Goals it necessary change model reducing role this industry. The analysis contribution gross regional product Russia’s regions...

The geographical location of Ukraine provides a multitude possibilities for successful investment activity. There are rich natural resources, fertile soil and qualified low-cost labour force. On the other hand, investors have to deal with historical ties Soviet Union, corruption, and political instability exacerbated by occupation part territory Russia. This paper deals possibility identifyi...

Analysis of the role operator companies in rail freight market terms competition and multi-agency is carried out this article. It emphasizes importance choosing competitive strategies identifying dominance monopolization markets. The methods SWOT-analysis Porter's analysis are used to assess companies. In addition, Lind, Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration indices important indicators competitio...