A large ongoing debate centers on the costs and benefits of increasing the minimum wage in an economy. Supporters of minimum wage legislation highlight that it can shift the earnings distribution in favor of low-paid workers by shrinking the bottom tail of the distribution. Opponents highlight its disemployment effect and the fact that it might reduce the share of earnings going to low-paid wor...

Defending against Return-Oriented Programming

This paper describes the design of a high-efficiency vehicular roof-mounted antenna for wireless access for vehicular environment (WAVE) communication systems used for ubiquitous intelligent systems. The main objective of the ubiquitous intelligent system’s automotive IT technology is to enhance the connectivity among vehicles to ensure seamless communication and to reduce the initial access ti...

This paper analyzes the return migration of foreign-born persons in the United States. We argue that return migration may have been planned as part of an optimal life-cycle residential location sequence. Return migration also occurs because immigrants based their initial migration decision on erroneous information about opportunities in the United States. The study uses the 1980 Census and admi...

Layek and Pati (Phys. Lett. A, 2017) studied a nonlinear system of five coupled equations, which describe thermal relaxation in Rayleigh-Benard convection Boussinesq fluid layer, heated from below. Here we return to that paper use techniques dynamical systems theory analyse the codimension-one Hopf bifurcation codimension-two double-zero Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation....

This paper provides empirical study on the behavior of the Shanghai and the Shenzhen stock exchanges after the Chinese government announced to increase the securities transaction tax from 0.3% to 0.5% in May 9, 1997. We examine the impact of the increased transaction tax on the volatility of stock returns and tax revenue. We find that the return volatility significantly increased. We also find ...

Mutation testing is a technique for testing software units that has great potential for improving the quality of testing, and thereby increasing our ability to assure the high reliability of critical software. It will be shown that recent advances in mutation research have brought a practical mutation testing system closer to reality. One recent advance is a partial solution to the problem of a...

W a firm allows the return of previously purchased merchandise, it provides customers with an option that has measurable value. Whereas the option to return merchandise leads to an increase in gross revenue, it also creates additional costs. Selecting an optimal return policy requires balancing both demand and cost implications. In this paper, we develop a structural model of a consumer’s decis...