This brief paper tries to highlight two important missing aspects for understanding poverty issues in developing countries. They are the economic analysis of the rural non-farm households, and the behavior of land markets. Taking South Asia as a case, this paper claims that without proper understanding of these aspects, it is difficult to formulate an effective solution to the poverty issue. * ...

This paper mainly studies problems about so called “permutation polynomials modulo m”, polynomials with integer coefficients that can induce bijections over Zm = {0, · · · , m−1}. The necessary and sufficient conditions of permutation polynomials are given, and the number of all permutation polynomials of given degree and the number induced bijections are estimated. A method is proposed to dete...

This paper addresses the development and validation of rubrics, materials and situations for the assessment of innovation competence. Research was carried out to verify the viability of the first draft of the assessment criteria, which led to refinement of the criteria and proposals to enhance the ensuing validation process that will include students and raters of different language backgrounds.

A geometric approach, analogous to the approach used in the additive case, is proposed to determine the conditional expectation with non-additive probabilities. The conditional expectation is then applied for (i) updating the probability when new information becomes available; and (ii) defining the notion of independence of non-additive probabilities and Nash equilibrium. Journal of Economic Li...

1 Acknowledgements The PI thanks Stephanie Myer and A.J. Downie, both research assistants of the project, for conducting excellent research work and preparing the first draft of the final report. Thanks also go to Mr. suggestions, review, and other assistance. The PI is very grateful to all the people who participated in the adaptation options survey.

Up to this point) you have searched for literature on the topic of your review) made careful notes on specific details of the literature, and analyzed these details to identify patterns, relationships among studies, and gaps in the body of literature, as well as strengths and weaknesses in particular research studies. Then, in Chapter 8, you reorganized your notes and developed a detailed writi...

We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lottery and deduce their ArrowPratt measure of risk aversion. This allows direct testing of common hypotheses on risk attitudes in three datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed falls with income and wealth. Entrepreneurs are less risk averse than employees, civil servants are more risk averse than private sector employees, and wo...

The correct calibration of the interaction matrix D deeply affects the performance of an adaptive optics system. In the case of high-order systems, when the number of mirror modes is worth a few thousands, the actuation strategy is critical. This is a very first draft of a future paper, so feel free to contact the corresponding author for more accurate and up to date information.

This report examines a specific nanoscale computing technology, namely Magnetic Quantum Cellular Automata (MQCA) systems. It provides estimates of the temperature stability and operating speed as a function of the device size, together with estimates of how such systems might behave if the device sizes could be scaled down to molecular dimensions. REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No....