Income inequality is an important economic issue faced by most of the developed and developing countries. Many attempts have been made to identify a link between economic growth and income inequality in the past. However, the literature is not conclusive about the relationship between economic development and income inequality. This study attempts to analyze the factors responsible for income i...

Since many companies choose to publish digital video advertisements with creative features on the Internet promote new products. This study aims examine impact of number strategies (NCS) in adverting messages consumer review valence and explore whether this varies by product type (incrementally products vs. really products). Based method content analysis empirical 564 published six world-renown...

We examined long-term patterns of stressful life events (SLE) and their impact on mortality contrasting two theoretical models: allostatic load (linear relationship) and hormesis (inverted U relationship) in 1443 NAS men (aged 41-87 in 1985; M = 60.30, SD = 7.3) with at least two reports of SLEs over 18 years (total observations = 7,634). Using a zero-inflated Poisson growth mixture model, we i...

The effects of capital account openness on economic growth may vary across countries. Some countries may not have in place the constellation of institutions required to fully benefit from open capital accounts. Other countries may realize only small marginal improvements in the wake of capital account liberalization. This paper presents evidence of an inverted-U shaped relationship between the ...

Auditory latent inhibition (LI) and schizotypy were measured in (n=54), showing that LI was an inverted-U function of schizotypy score. Only average levels of schizotypy were associated with undiminished LI while both lowand high-SPQ subjects showed reduced LI. No relationship was found between LI and either psychoticism or any of the ®ve NEO PI-R domains. These results complement the similar c...

Abstract The Both bonded and unbonded prestressing tendons may be used to reinforce post-tensioned (PT) concrete members. binding state of have an impact on how well different types PT elements function in flexural shear loads. Inverted-U shape reinforcement was experimentally enhance the behavior structural elements. obtained results confirmed proposed model’s accuracy for both slabs beams (bo...