We analyze how technology transfer from a leading economy affects followers’ productivity growth in manufacturing sectors and Gross Domestic Product. Allowing for heterogeneous technology levels we explore how this impacts rates of catch-up in labor productivity across manufacturing sectors and GDP for 16 OECD nations. Our results indicate that aggregate studies bias downward the estimated rate...

We investigated the spatial and temporal relationship of catch rates and angler party location for two days following a publicly announced put-and-take stocking of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Catch rates declined with time since stocking and distance from stocking. We hypothesized that opportunity for high catch rates would cause anglers to fish near the stocking location and disperse ...

“Bloat”, a term that has existed in the technical community for many years, has recently received attention in the popular press. The term has a negative connotation implying that human, or system performance is diminished in some way when “bloat” exists. Yet “bloat” is seldom clearly defined and is often a catch-all phrase to suggest that software is filled with unnecessary features. However, ...

Understanding the pressures of fisheries on the ecosystem is crucial for effective management. Fishery removals, or catch, are composed of both landings and discards. However, the use of discards data in studies investigating the effect of the fishing pressures is sparse. Here, we explore the individual contribution of both these catch components to the overall pressure of fisheries on the ecos...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Continued suboptimal measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine uptake has re-established measles epidemic risk, prompting a UK catch-up campaign in 2008-09 for children who missed MMR doses at scheduled age. Predictors of vaccine uptake during catch-ups are poorly understood, however evidence from routine schedule uptake suggests demographics and attitudes may be central. Thi...

OBJECTIVES To examine predictors of partial and full measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination catch-up between 3 and 5 years. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of the nationally representative Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). SETTING Children born in the UK, 2000-2002. PARTICIPANTS 751 MCS children who were unimmunised against MMR at age 3, with immunisation information at age 5. MAIN OU...

Undernutrition during fetal and postnatal life is still a major problem in many low- and middle-income countries. Even in high-income countries malnutrition may exist in cases of intrauterine growth retardation, as well as in chronic conditions such as anorexia nervosa and inflammatory bowel disease. Children adopted from developing countries are often chronically malnourished. Nutritional reha...

Seventeen cases of precordial "catch" are reported. The children varied in age from 8 to 16 years. The characteristics of this painful condition are discussed; in particular, the diagnostic indication of the site of the pain over an intercostal space, with the finger tip, is stressed. Anxiety in the child, or the parents, in relation to the complaint is discussed. Several methods of treatment a...

Work on text summarization for DUC 2007 at the University of Ottawa continued along the lines established in recent years. We participated in the associated Pyramid evaluation effort now entrusted to the broader research community, expanding our corpus of SCU-marked documents by the 23 topics annotated this year to a total of 70. For the first time our summarization system made direct use of th...

To catch a thief, spy, money launderer, insider trader, tax evader, narcotics trafficker or anyone exhibiting patterns of "noncompliant" behavior can be effectively performed using a combination of strategic (proactive) and tactical (reactive) analytical techniques. The exact definition of a noncompliant pattern will vary according to the activities occurring within the domain for which it is b...