This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...

A numerical algorithm for fully–dynamical lubrication problems based on the Elrod– Adams formulation of Reynolds equation with mass–conserving boundary conditions is described. A simple but effective relaxation scheme is used to update the solution maintaining the complementarity conditions on the variables that represents the pressure and fluid fraction. The equations of motion are discretized...

Abstract Calcium silicates are the main components in cement clinkers. Alite, nesosilicate or island silicate Ca 3 SiO 5 , also named C S chemistry notation, represents phase Portland Due to metastability of Alite at room temperature, quenching from high temperatures is mandatory for preservation and impurities important structure directing factors. Those two aspects result a plethora published...

Hummingbird participated in the named page finding task of the TREC 2002 Web Track (find the named page in 18GB from the .GOV domain) and the monolingual Arabic topic relevance task of the TREC 2002 Cross-Language Track (find all relevant documents in 869MB of Arabic news data). In the named page finding task, SearchServer returned the named page in the first 10 rows for more than 80% of the 15...

. The article substantiates the relevance of introducing electronic toll collection in order to improve quality functioning regional transport systems. service for road users affects both social and economic efficiency it allows you reduce time spent on traffic, ensure «just time» delivery. Based target functional performance indicators intelligent systems, a variant technical assessment introd...

Smith and Farah (2011) presented a scholarly review of critical areas related to their intriguing title "Are Prescription Stimulants 'Smart Pills'?" We contend that they accomplished the main goal of the article, to get the facts straight about possible cognitive enhancement via the nonmedical use of stimulant drugs by individuals without a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

Extant research on websites success has paid insufficient attention to the success of permission-based email marketing (PEM) websites. In order to bridge this knowledge gap, the contribution of this study lies in synthesizing information management/e-commerce, media/communication, as well as customer/marketing research to propose a PEM websites success model consisting of antecedent (i.e., func...