Using PIRLS 2001 and PISA 2003 data for Germany, this paper examines whether immigrants attending primary and secondary school are graded worse in math than comparable natives. Controlling for diff erences in math skills, class fi xed eff ects regressions and results of a matching approach suggest that immigrants have grade disadvantages in primary education. In Germany, track choice after prim...

© 2006 FRILOT PARTRIDGE, LC WWW.FRILOTPARTRIDGE.COM 504.599.8000 The modern scientifi c thinking on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) began with the study of the primitive Fore tribe (pronounced 4-a) in eastern New Guinea. There had long been a strange neurologic disease in the cannibalistic jungle tribe. Some of the Fore people, primarily the women and children, began to have diffi culty walking...

We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to persistent and transitory price and income changes using a 1979–2006 panel of tax returns. Our estimation procedure allows for anticipation of and gradual adjustment to tax changes, controls for various potential sources of omitted variable bias via fi xed effects and income-class specifi c year dummies, and allows for a fl exible ...

D uring development, how can you determine with confi dence whether your system will exceed its allowable downtime when delivered? When customers change their minds about functionality, how can you be confi dent that you’ve made the right trade­offs to deliver the system within your original fi xed budget? During the early weeks of a sprint, how can you be confi dent that you can deliver all th...

Using PIRLS 2001 and PISA 2003 data for Germany, this paper examines whether immigrants attending primary and secondary school are graded worse in math than comparable natives. Controlling for diff erences in math skills, class fi xed eff ects regressions and results of a matching approach suggest that immigrants have grade disadvantages in primary education. In Germany, track choice after prim...

background: reinforcement of root canals obturated with resilon was reported by several investigators, but no studies reported the reinforcement of overtly fl ared root canals obturated with resilon material. the aim of this study was to investigate the fracture resistance of overtly fl ared root canals fi lled with resilon as compared to similar root canals fi lled with gutta-percha (gp). mate...

We describe an encoding of major parts of domain theory in the PVS extension of the simply typed calculus these encodings consist of Formalizations of basic structures like partial orders and complete partial orders domains Various domain constructions Notions related to monotonic functions and continuous functions Knaster Tarski xed point theorems for monotonic and continuous functions the pro...

Affected by globalization and increased complexity, supply chain managers have learned about the importance of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). However, in large scale supply chains, S&OP has received little attention, by both academics and practitioners. The purpose of this manuscript is to investigate the advantages of S&OP process using a mathematical modeling approach in a large scale ...

In this paper we investigate common xed point theorems for contraction mapping in fuzzy metric space introduced by Gregori and Sapena [V. Gregori, A. Sapena, On xed-point the- orems in fuzzy metric spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 125 (2002), 245-252].

In this paper, we discuss the existence and uniqueness of xed points for Banach and Kannancontractions dened on modular spaces endowed with a graph. We do not impose the Δ2-conditionor the Fatou property on the modular spaces to give generalizations of some recent results. Thegiven results play as a modular version of metric xed point results.